Running Spotify in the background on the IPhone

Since Apple has not allowed applications to run simultaneously on the IPhone, applications like Spotify can only work when they are the only application running. If you would like to perform a task such as browsing the web while listening to music from Spotify, you need to have a 3rd party application installed on your iPhone. This 3rd party application is called backgrounder. It enables any application to run in the background to leave your iPhone free to run other applications. This is useful if you would like to leave an application and come back to it later, but not to close the application. eg: To listen to Spotify while checking your SMSs.

Because the application (Backgrounder) would never be approved on the app store in a million years (Apple are slightly controlling and want every single application reviewed by them for "quality control" or more likely "consumer control") you have to download it from another installer application called Cydia. Before you can run Cydia, your IPhone needs to be jailbroken. If your IPhone is not Jailbroken, you can run through this quick tutorial to unlock your IPhone in minutes.

Once your IPhone is Jailbroken:

1) Install backgrounder from cydia.

2) A new icon will appear on your IPhone, this is the actual backgrounder application. If you like, from here you can add some cool settings for applications that you will use backgrounder with.

3) When you are in the Spotify application, hold the home button down for 3 seconds.This will put Spotify into background mode.

3) Voila!! you are now able to run other applications while Spotify is playing your favourite Spice Girls song.