diff --git a/packages/ncspot/Cargo.toml.patch b/packages/ncspot/Cargo.toml.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 08964b007..000000000
--- a/packages/ncspot/Cargo.toml.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-Backported from
-
-https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot/commit/487bc0dba0acac0a57227bc090fc5d82eea0af15
-
-and modified so that `termion_backend` is used by default.
-
---- a/Cargo.toml
-+++ b/Cargo.toml
-@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
- regex = "1"
- ioctl-rs = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
- serde_cbor = "0.11.2"
--pancurses = { version = "0.17.0", features = ["win32"] }
-+pancurses = { version = "0.17.0", features = ["win32"], optional = true }
- 
- [dependencies.rspotify]
- version = "0.11.3"
-@@ -65,10 +65,11 @@
- rodio_backend = ["librespot-playback/rodio-backend"]
- portaudio_backend = ["librespot-playback/portaudio-backend"]
- termion_backend = ["cursive/termion-backend"]
-+pancurses_backend = ["cursive/pancurses-backend"]
- mpris = ["dbus", "dbus-tree"]
- notify = ["notify-rust"]
- cover = ["ioctl-rs"]
--default = ["share_clipboard", "pulseaudio_backend", "mpris", "notify", "cursive/pancurses-backend"]
-+default = ["share_clipboard", "pulseaudio_backend", "mpris", "notify", "termion_backend"]
- 
- [package.metadata.deb]
- depends = "$auto, pulseaudio"
diff --git a/packages/ncspot/build.sh b/packages/ncspot/build.sh
index f5ded0583..ba45ba0d2 100644
--- a/packages/ncspot/build.sh
+++ b/packages/ncspot/build.sh
@@ -2,17 +2,15 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="An ncurses Spotify client written in Rust"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="BSD 2-Clause"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.9.3
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot/archive/refs/tags/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=ed873d007ce356e8c6eed56226533b686682a98d2a37487668416539d4e10e78
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.9.7
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot/archive/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=6a7dec42d7ffde7d455b75dbc846f34463ae1e3c9bd84669382e90c4d1b31e3e
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="dbus, pulseaudio"
+TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true
-
-termux_step_make() {
-	termux_setup_rust
-	cargo build --jobs $TERMUX_MAKE_PROCESSES --target $CARGO_TARGET_NAME --release
-}
-
-termux_step_make_install() {
-	install -Dm755 -t $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin target/${CARGO_TARGET_NAME}/release/ncspot
-}
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
+--no-default-features
+--features cursive/termion-backend,share_clipboard,pulseaudio_backend,mpris,notify
+"
+# NOTE: ncurses-rs runs a test while building which fails while cross compiling:
+# therefore, we use cursive/termion-backend instead.