

I think it’s just an iPhone glitch, which will soon be fixed in future updates. So I don’t think you will have to keep Facebook’s access to Camera turned off forever to listen to Spotify music. Once I verified that Spotify continues to play music even when I scroll on the Facebook app, I tried reversing the options (such as enabling camera access again), and there was no problem at all. So just to be on the safe side, you should do that, too. In our case, I kept Facebook’s Video Autoplays or the ‘Videos Start With Sound’ options turned off before I removed its access to the iPhone’s camera. Just a note of caution before you disable camera access. 2) On the second image, see Camera? 3) On the third image, I simply disabled the Camera access by turning the green-button into gray. On iPhone ’s Settings page: 1) Facebook is the first app in the list of apps, and I tapped on Facebook. When you tap on the toggle or the button, it will turn gray, meaning it’s disabled. If it’s green, it means the access is granted.

For those who don’t know, here’s how you can do it, too: Still no luck.īut then I did something that finally worked: I removed Facebook’s access to iPhone’s camera. I also disabled Facebook’s ‘Videos Start With Sound’ option. I turned off Facebook’s Video Autoplays completely.

So, I tried some obvious fixes, to no success:įirst, I closed all running apps including Facebook. After all, Spotify would stop working only when the Facebook app is opened. How to prevent Facebook app from interfering with SpotifyĬlearly, I assumed, the problem was with the Facebook app. But as they say, happiness doesn ’t last forever nature conspired to invent a new problem: whenever she opens the Facebook app, Spotify stops working-or it simply exits. We subscribed to a two-person Spotify package and have been more than happy ever since, especially its vast collection of songs, even regional ones.

The solution was to subscribe to an audio streaming service or to be more specific, Spotify. And, for a music lover like her, the transition to iPhone can be tricky because iPhone notoriously does not allow users to play stored music. My partner recently switched from Android to iPhone.
