
If the hacker has deleted your Spotify playlists curated over many years and you want it back. Once your account is recovered, immediately change your password. You can contact support via the Spotify chatbot, or you can write an email at with all the details, and they will help you get back your account.Ģ. If you don’t have access to your Spotify Account, then you need to get in touch with the support team to recover your hacked Spotify account. Under account settings, scroll down and click on Sign Out of Everywhere.This will end all active sessions on your Spotify account from other devices and platforms. Click on your Spotify profile, and then go to the account settings option.Ģ. Then, on the log in page, click "Forgot username or password?" which will prompt Spotify to send you a password reset link.1. However, there's an unofficial workaround for revoking Facebook permissions from Spotify!įirst, you'll need to log out from Spotify. Spotify did not immediately respond to request for comment. According to Spotify’s support page, you have to cancel your Premium subscription, create a new account, use the contact form to ask customer service to port your playlists over, and hope for the best.Īnd because you can’t create two accounts with the same email address, if your Facebook account is associated with your main email address, you have to close the old account before creating a new one, possibly losing all of your saved library and playlists! If you want to use a dedicated Spotify log-in, without Facebook, you have to create an entirely new Spotify account, and ask customer service to port your playlists over. In 2012, it quietly reversed its decision and allowed users to sign up with an email address, but it made that option available in tiny font on its registration page. When Spotify launched in the US in 2011, it required users to sign up with Facebook. As it turns out, you can’t unlink your Facebook from Spotify! If you created a Spotify account with Facebook (likely), it is *forever* tied to your Facebook account. In a statement, Spotify said it “has not experienced a security breach.” But removing your Facebook account as a log-in method would be a good precaution, anyway. So, today, I tried to unlink my Facebook account from my Spotify account.īecause security! Essentially, attackers stole “access tokens” that allow full access to Facebook accounts, as well as access to accounts that use Facebook as a log-in (called “Facebook single sign-on”).


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