How to delete your Spotify account

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Knowing how to delete your Spotify account is a must if you've decided to switch to a rival music streaming app such as Apple Music or Amazon Music Unlimited. Spotify Premium subscribers can just abolish their subscription to avert paying further, but leaving an open nevertheless inactive account is basically handing Spotify your personal details for no real reason.

Fully closing your business relationship is apparently a more than permanent solution than simply cancelling a Premium subscription, but our guide beneath will show you how to delete your Spotify account in merely a few steps.

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Naturally, one time you lot delete a Spotify account, both it and all of its content — playlists, search histories, Favorited songs and then on — will exist gone for adept. When yous first close the business relationship, you'll take the option to reactivate it inside 7 days, and so in that location'southward a short grace period if you change your listen. But later on that, it's gone forever.

You tin can even so create a new Spotify account afterward, but mostly you should be certain that fully deleting your account is what you want. If it is, but follow the steps below.

How to delete your Spotify account

ane. In a web browser, head to the Contact Spotify Back up page and sign in using the account you want to shut. Click on 'Account.'

2. Select 'I desire to close my account.'

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3. Select 'Contact to shut.' If you have a Spotify Premium account, you're also given the option to cancel it, though this will just switch yous to a free business relationship, rather than deleting information technology completely.

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4. Rather than fill out a grade, you'll need to 'chat' with Spotify'southward support bot to delete your account. Click on 'Start chat' to open it up.

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5. Blazon that you wish to shut your business relationship, and the bot will help you lot complete the terminal few steps. If you're given a choice of cancelling a Premium subscription or closing your account, click 'Shut account' in the chat box. Y'all'll also demand to confirm y'all tin access your email accost when prompted.

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You lot'll receive an email confirming your account deletion, along with a reactivation link; if you change your mind and decide to continue your account after all, click this link within 7 days. The reactivation process will accept up to xxx days to complete, however.

You tin can also re-use the email account registered to your now-deleted business relationship when setting up a new Spotify business relationship; you lot just need to wait 14 days later on the deletion process has started, or 7 days after the reactivation period ends.

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