Spotify Expands AI-Powered Running Mode to Android Across Seven Markets

Spotify started offering its AI-powered Prompted Playlists feature in January 2026. Alongside a new partnership with Peloton, the streaming service shared in April that requests for workout-focused playlists were one of the most common prompts it received. Running Mode serves as one example of Spotify catering to that demand, laying the groundwork for further integration between AI and fitness down the road.

Data from digital media tracking shows exercise audio remains one of the highest-reengagement content categories, driving streaming services to invest in personalized algorithmic tools to boost Premium subscriber retention.

Spotify announced that Running Mode — its AI-powered feature for generating playlists matched to your runs — is now available on Android in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden. The feature, which revives and expands on an earlier running experiment from 2018, forms a core element of the company’s ongoing push into fitness.

The 2018 experiment originated from Spotify Running, a feature launched in 2015 that relied on hardware accelerometers to match song tempos to step rates. Bringing the redesigned feature to Android vastly expands its addressable audience beyond iOS, tapping into a global mobile operating system market share of over 70 percent.

Following the initial release of the playlist feature on iOS in late July, Android users can access the feature in Spotify’s Fitness Hub. Users can pick from 25 presets across different workouts and music genres, and further customize your playlist by adjusting settings such as the duration of your run, beat matching to hit a specific pace, and whether to enable or disable audio cues.