Spotify is adding even more social features as it seeks to keep users from leaving the app to share music. The company on Wednesday said<\/a> it is introducing a new Messages feature that will let users see what their friends are streaming in real time and send requests to start Jams, the app\u2019s collaborative listening feature.<\/p>\n Users would first have to navigate to their Settings and turn on the \u201clistening activity\u201d feature in the \u201cPrivacy & Social\u201d section. Once that\u2019s done, your listening activity will appear at the top of Messages chats. You can tap a friend\u2019s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.<\/p>\n As for starting a Jam, Premium users can tap the \u201cJam\u201d option in the top right corner to send a request to their friends. If the other user accepts it, they will become the Jam host, and both users would be able to add tracks to a shared queue and listen to music together.<\/p>\n Listening Activity and Request to Jam will roll out to the iOS and Android apps in markets where Messages is available, and will be broadly available in these markets by early February. Listening Activity is available to all users with access to Messages, while Free users can join a Request to Jam session when invited by a Premium user.<\/p>\n Spotify notes that because both of these new features are available through Messages, they are only available to users 16 and older. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Listening-activity-Emoji-Reactions.jpg?w=680\")