How to Update Spotify on Mac

How to Update Spotify on Mac

Spotify is one of the best media service providers in the world. The company was found in Sweden in 2006. It offers a freemium service that means it comes with a free and also a premium service for paid customers. The basic features are, it offers free streaming with advertisements or electronic music with offline and commercial-free listening. It holds a record of 271 million free listeners and 124 million paying customers.

Spotify was made available on all platforms such as Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android devices. Let’s see how to perform Spotify updates on a Mac computer. Unlike the other applications you have on your Mac, it is not entitled to perform automatic updates as it does for different applications.The Spotify app is usually up-to-date all the time. However, there is a manual way to check for updates as well.

  • Step 1: Follow the steps given below to check for Spotify updates on your Mac,
  • Step 2: Launch your Mac system. Open the Spotify application in the applications.
  • Step 3: Click the option Spotify that is located right next to the apple icon on the top-left corner of the screen.
  • Step 4: Select the About Spotify option.
  • Step 5: The Spotify window will show you the license and copyright trademark option with the contents.
  • Step 6: You will see a newer version update right below the Spotify title.
  • Step 7: The message will read the version number followed by Click Here To Download.
  • Step 8: Spotify will start downloading the new update reading the following message "Downloading a new version of Spotify..".
  • Step 9: Once the download is complete, the Spotify will ask you to restart the application to run the newly installed version.
  • Step 10: Just quit the app and open the app again.
  • Step 11: You will see the latest version of Spotify installed on your Mac.

There are cases when you open the Spotify application to check for updates, and you won't see the Click here to download option. That would indicate that the Spotify application is up-to-date with the newest version.

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