iPhone users, Spotify may soon offer personalised playlists for your workout – Times of India

Spotify seems to be working on bringing personalised playlists for those who work out, right now for iPhone users. The music streaming app will integrate the HealthKit API of Apple, giving it the workout details it needs to give users their personalised playlists.
Apple’s HealthKit API lets third-party apps on iPhone and Apple Watch access users’ health and fitness data. As per Chris Messina on Twitter, Spotify has been integrating HealthKit within its iOS app; thus, the music app would have your workout data, like how much did you walk, cycled,d or ran, how long you workout for, calories burned, and more.
Here’s why Spotify needs to know about your workouts

Messina suggests that Spotify will use the users’ health data to give them the right music for their workout sessions. The music streaming app will match users’ workouts with the music they listen to during it to see what kind of music motivates them the best, and maybe then create a personalised playlist for their workout.
As of now, the feature seems to be in the very early stages of development, and no users have reportedly received the feature yet. There is no word on when the feature will be released or if Spotify plans a similar feature for Android.
If Spotify plans to bring such a feature to Android, it would have to integrate the Health Connect API within its app, and there is no clue about it so far.
Messina, in a separate tweet, notes that the latest update to the Spotify app on iPhone adds a new page for subscriptions. But you will not be able to subscribe to the Premium plan from there. Instead, the page reads, “You can’t make changes to your plan in app. We know it’s not ideal,” taking a subtle dig at Apple.
Meanwhile, Spotify recently brought the much-needed overhaul to its Apple Watch app, updated with larger controls, swipe gestures, and a more useful library view. Also, there is