The choice of millions of people to listen to music, podcasts or audiobooks Spotify. Spotify is now exploring ways to share emergency alerts through the app. In the tests that have started in Sweden, the company aims to create the right infrastructure to announce important announcements and emergency notifications. The system will announce “accidents, serious incidents or disruptions to important services.”

Technologist who was the first to reverse engineer the Spotify app Chris Messina unveiled this feature. While under normal circumstances many users choose to disable notifications from applications, this feature has the chance to attract users’ attention.

It is not yet known how the feature will work.

Some expressions in Spotify codes provide information about the new feature. These codes are as follows:

• “Emergency warnings in Sweden”
• “Receive public emergency alerts”
• “Important Public Announcement (IPA), IPA is the system used in Sweden to warn the public in the event of accidents, serious incidents or disruption of essential services.”
• “For more information, visit the Swedish Civil Emergencies Agency website”

about the subject Spotify StatementWhile it was confirmed that the feature is currently being tested for Sweden, it was also stated that work is being done to improve the user experience. On the other hand, it was not explained how exactly the feature works. Spotify can warn its users by sending notifications, or can also deliver notifications out loud by stopping the stream, similar to radio broadcasts in tunnels.