Spotify keeps crashing on Samsung Galaxy and Pixel over Wi-Fi

Android owners with Samsung Galaxy phones have run into an unwelcome surprise: the Spotify app has started crashing and freezing without any obvious trigger. Reports have piled up on Spotify’s official forums and on Reddit, and it appears the glitches aren’t limited to Galaxy devices — Google Pixel users are seeing them too.

Over the past two weeks or so, the behavior has been erratic. Some people encounter occasional hangs; others can’t get the app to open at all. The failures strike at random and don’t correlate with a specific phone model. Reinstalling Spotify or switching Wi‑Fi networks hasn’t helped. Notably, users say the app works reliably over mobile data, which points to a hiccup in how the app handles Wi‑Fi connections.

Spotify has acknowledged the problem and said it is investigating, without naming a timeline for a fix. For now, the practical options are to roll back to a previous version of the app or stream over cellular until an update arrives.

The disruption stings all the more because Spotify remains the world’s biggest music service and is actively deepening its ties with Android Auto and voice assistants. Given that context, it’s plausible a recent compatibility update introduced unintended errors that are now affecting thousands of users globally. The pattern also leans toward a network-handling quirk rather than a device-specific fault — but until a patch lands, everyday listeners are left juggling workarounds.