Spotify is dropping username logins in September
Spotify is removing username logins on September 1, 2026, with email becoming the only way to sign in.
Spotify is officially dropping username logins. Starting September 1, 2026, the only way to sign in will be with your email address, and the company has already begun notifying users directly via email.
“Starting September 1, 2026, you’ll no longer be able to log in with your username. Instead, you can log in with your email,” the email reads.
For most people, this changes nothing. Spotify has been steering users toward email-based login for years, and its own support pages already note that usernames aren’t required to sign in. The bigger issue is that Spotify hasn’t allowed custom usernames since around 2018, so anyone who created an account after that has a randomly generated string of characters as their username anyway. Logging in with that was never particularly convenient.
The change does matter if you’ve been using a third-party tool or scrobbler that relies on your username to identify your account. Those services may need to be updated or reauthorized after September.
If the email currently tied to your Spotify account isn’t one you want to use going forward, you can change it in your account settings before the cutoff.
