The Spotify music streaming service is always committed to updating its apps (even if it continues to delay something in great demand by users) and one of the news introduced a few months ago is called 'Canvas', which shows videos in the background for the song inReproduction instead of the album cover, for example spezioni of the music video of the song that is being listened to.Not many users have appreciated this functionality, active by default, wondering if it implies greater data consumption and battery.It is inevitable that there is a greater consumption of data/energy resources, but for the company it is minimal.However, Spotify has now made optional 'canvas': starting from the update of Spotify available from 11 March 2019, 'Canvas' is a new option that can be deactivated/activate in the settings, so now users are free to choosewhether to have these 'covers' video or not.
How to disable 'Canvas' in Spotify: make sure you have the Spotify app updated to the most recent version, available from after 11 March 2019, then open the Spotify app, enter the settings (gear symbol), then scrollUp to find the 'Canvas' option and disable the switch on the right: from green (= active) it must become gray (= disabled).'Canvas' is located just under 'Behind the lyrics'.
In the description of the 'Canvas' option, Spotify writes that videos "are optimized to use very few data and very little battery".In any case, at least now it is the user who can decide whether to have video canvas or not: by default, however, the option is active.