Thank you to everyone who reported this issue! On MacOS, Spotify automatically opens on startup, even if the option is turned off. If you are having this issue too. 15 inch Mac book pro won't stop loading when I boot it up. Just the white screen with the spinning wheel. I've rebooted several times but does the same thing over and over. Tech support mentions something about firmware but I can't get that far to download it. Any suggestions? Method 1: Disable Auto-Start from Spotify App. This is the first thing on your to-do list in the process of getting rid of the Spotify auto-start issue. There is an option that lets the Spotify app to auto-start on every startup. Turning it off might solve the issue for you. If you have already disabled this option then move to the next method. Stop Spotify From Opening On Startup On Mac. As we mentioned in the note above, the method to prevent the Spotify from opening at the time of startup is the same in both the Windows and iOS system (when we do it using the Spotify app), here are some other methods to do the same. Method 1: Using The Dock.
Similarly my 2011 13 inch mbp gives me the spinning wheel. Can you download playlists on spotify free trail. I have tried safe boot, PRAM, SMC, Hardware Diagnostic (including extended diagnostic mode from OS disk)..all of which are present no errors.
The most useful piece of info I found this far:
If you want to see the status of a Safe Boot as it progresses, you can hold Shift-Command-V during start up (instead of just Shift).
Remove Spotify From Startup
This reveals that the apparent point that it's getting stuck at reads 'SIOCPROTODETACH_ING: utun0 error=6', which is better than not having any meaningful info from which to begun a futile hunt from.
Spotify Won't Stop Opening On Startup Macbook Pro
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