Pi-hole: Spotify in offline mode on iOS

[JamborJan]

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[BUG | ISSUE] Expected Behaviour:
Spotify on iOS should not be in offline mode when using pi-hole.

[BUG | ISSUE] Actual Behaviour:
Spotify on iOS is in offline mode when using pi-hole.

[BUG | ISSUE] Steps to reproduce:

• Use Spotify (latest update) on an iPhone (latest iOS) in LAN with latest Pi-Hole (Pi-hole Version v2.13 Web Interface Version v2.5)
• Spotify will be in Offline Mode
• In Pi-Hole you see only one line Status OK line, nothing blocked:
  
• I can reproduce that issue with any iPhone running Spotify
• I don't know if it is related to Spotify Premium which I'm using or not
• On Laptops with latest macOS the Spotify app and the web player is working as expected

(Optional) Debug token generated by pihole -d:

thell4rj2x

[technicalpyro]

the following shows when i attempt to use spotify

Mar  3 15:18:34 dnsmasq[3196]: query[A] secure-us.imrworldwide.com from 172.16.1.104
Mar  3 15:18:34 dnsmasq[3196]: /etc/pihole/gravity.list secure-us.imrworldwide.com is 172.16.1.102

Whitelist secure-us.imrworldwide.com

[jacobsalmela]

That should be fine.

Just to be sure, did add this to your whitelist?

pihole -w spclient.wg.spotify.com

[JamborJan]

Whoops. Sorry, didn't find the whitelist tips before. It does work of course. Sorry!