

Apparently, Spotify requires address verification to try to ensure that all family members are in the same household, so presumably, those addresses need to be entered identically. In this case, I had my wife set it up and, after I entered my address, I received this ominous warning: When you invite someone else to join your plan, they’re asked to enter their address. You don’t have to give Spotify a home address unless you sign up for a family plan. (I should have guessed something like this would happen after Adam Engst ran into an incomprehensible track limit on his account-see “ The 10,000 Track Limit: Why I Switched from Spotify to Apple Music,” 30 August 2017.) Or at least it seemed that way until we ran into the baffling and user-hostile way Spotify handles home postal addresses. The obvious choice for a music-streaming service seemed to be Spotify since it works on both platforms. I can’t justify the price of a HomePod, but my wife and I have a mix of Amazon Echo and Google Home speakers in our house. #1631: iOS 16.0.3 and watchOS 9.0.2, roller coasters trigger Crash Detection, Medications in iOS 16, watchOS 9 Low Power Mode.#1632: Apple Card Savings accounts, SOS in the iPhone status bar, Tab Wrangler, Focus in iOS 16.#1633: macOS 13 Ventura and other OS updates, 10th-gen iPad, M2 iPad Pro, 3rd-gen Apple TV 4K, Apple services price hikes.#1634: New Messages features, Apple Q4 2022 results, Preview drops PostScript, iOS/iPadOS 15.7.1, Dvorak on iPhone and iPad.#1635: Adobe/Pantone quarrel, does Matter matter yet?, OneWorld 65W international charger, corral your email with SaneBox, e3 Software sponsoring TidBITS.
