If you’re listening to music or a podcast on your phone, you want to keep listening when the screen turns off. Most phones will lock the screen after a short while. (The default on the Google Pixel is 30 seconds of inactivity.) It would be annoying if your media cut out whenever that happened.
As well as continuing to play, Pixel phones, by default, assume that you want to be able to pause and restart what you’re listening to. So, media players like Spotify and Tidal are still accessible and navigable on the lock screen. Depending on the app, you can shuffle, go back, repeat, and skip to the next track.
