Spotify is a popular music streaming app available on Apple and Android devices worldwide. Among its unique features is the Animation Video background, which plays a looping music video by default. While some users find this feature interesting, others do not prefer it. Additionally, Spotify has an Animation music video feature called Canvas that provides a short video that continuously loops with the track.
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Users have expressed frustration with this feature, as it can be hard to quickly find music controls. Additionally, it uses internet data and drains battery life. Today, we will explain how to disable the video playback feature for song tracks on your iPhone and iPad. Also, when the video animation is active, the controls automatically hide at the bottom of the screen, making it challenging to pause or play music swiftly.
Why do you see a video while playing music on Spotify?

It is a modern type of music cover art used to display on your screen instead of using an everyday Cover art is replaced by a small animation video, which plays when you were playing a video. As if not, it was only available for the mobile platform, including Android and iOS devices. Whereas, the animation video orientation is on Portrait, not in Landscape. Furthermore, The Canvas used in those music videos was designed by the artist of their music.
Spotify claims it well-optimized its software to consume little battery and very little data while playing canvas. Spotify was on their initial stage of creating a portrait, and they confirm that they added canvas every data means the Canvas feature is going to optimize more in the future.


My Spotify app for Android 13 does not have a settings icon or button. Not in the top right nor anywhere else. I find Canvas extremely annoying and want it off.