Home Screen image distorted/pixelated when audio app in use

This happened to me too, but I believe I have stumbled onto a fix:

I noticed it when I was listening to a podcast. When I looked at my phones Lock Screen, the podcast’s cover art fills most of the screen, and blurs the image around the edges.

I believe the edge blurring is what is causing the Home Screen to be distorted. If you just tab on the album image from the Lock Screen, it will collapse the image and other information back into a smaller banner, and all blurring/pixelation will stop along with it.

I tested this out by playing music too, and found the same result. With the large album icon with blurred edge on the Lock Screen, the Home Screen is distorted. Tapping the album from the Lock Screen collapses it there, and gets rid of all other distortion everywhere else.

It’s certainly something that needs to be patched out, but I hope this can fix your issue for the time being, too!

I’m having that same exact problem! This is what my Home Screen/wallpaper ends up looking like when I have Spotify playing. Obviously super pixelated. I found the only way that fixes it is if you toggle back & forth with another wallpaper like how you would do it with an AppleWatch.

That did the trick for me too! Thanks for the info about that! It was driving me crazy how it did that

I have the exact same problem. I reached out to Apple support, talked to someone on chat and then was escalated to engineering. Both suggested the same thing; to reset the phone and reinstall Spotify. Which I had already done a few times. The problem is still there.

Having the same issue!

Just noticed the same. The phone is SE (2020) though, and I was using Twitch as a small window-on-window.