Your Spotify username is about to become a lot less useful

Spotify is making a notable change to the way you entry your account.

The corporate has began emailing subscribers to inform them that username-based logins will not be supported beginning September 1, 2026. So, when you’ve been signing in with a Spotify username and password, you’ll quickly want to change to utilizing your e mail handle as a substitute.

Within the e mail despatched to customers, Spotify says:

“Beginning September 1, 2026, you’ll not find a way to log in together with your username. As a substitute, you possibly can log in together with your e mail.”

The e-mail additionally encourages customers to overview or replace the e-mail handle related to their account earlier than the change takes impact.

In the mean time, Spotify gives a number of methods to register. You should use a username and password, an e mail handle and password, or linked accounts equivalent to Google and Apple. Based mostly on Spotify’s discover, solely the username login choice is being retired. The corporate has not indicated that different sign-in strategies will probably be affected.

Spotify has provided email-based authentication and third-party account sign-ins for years. Nonetheless, when you’re a type of legacy customers who nonetheless kind your Spotify username when logging in on a new machine, you’ll need to be sure to know which e mail handle is related together with your account.

Should you’re undecided which e mail handle Spotify has on file, you possibly can examine and replace it in your account settings earlier than the September 2026 deadline.