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I’ve tried using the Alexa app with my Echo Dot off & on for years without a ton of success. Aside from being difficult to set up, unintuitive, and not especially useful, the Alexa app interferes with playing ANY music or podcast on my car stereo through my iPhone. On ANY app. The funny thing is I’ve never even USED Alexa in my car for anything. I thought my car stereo was glitching out; constant static, songs & podcasts cutting out or sounding crackly, then freezing both music/podcast play AND my phone! I couldn’t even turn off my phone to reset. It even caused my car stereo itself to freeze

I couldn’t find anywhere inside the app to report a technical issue with the app (NOT a customer service complaint or order issue) so my issue report goes here instead. Since the last update (approx one week ago/late October 2024) when I swipe or click the “back” arrow to return to the previous page—usually the search results list—the app takes me back much further than the previous page. Since the last update, I’d estimate approx 80% of the time I swipe or click to return to JUST the previous page, the app takes me back several pages or back to the landing page. (Where you can quickly view