How to Cancel Family Membership for Spotify Step 1. Log in to your Spotify account page and hit 'Subscriptions' from the left. Then, select the 'Change or Cancel'. Again press the 'Yes Cancel' button to confirm the cancellation of the Premium subscription. However all Family Members, except for me (I'm the account administrator), are unable to download music. It's not that the download doesn't work, the Download toggle/button just don't appear. The Account Overview for all of them shows that they're Premium Users and this issue just happens on PC or Mac, not. Spotify has begun requesting the home address of all users on its Premium Family Subscription. Credit: Supplied. When an account owner invites their family members to join the plan, each member will then be prompted to verify they share this same home address, using Google Maps. I guess I'll have to find another service then. Not that I want to but I have a family plan for me and my daughter who is 10 and lives with her mum. I've had spotify since 2012 and a family plan since it started and was only for one extra person.
Premium Family is a discount plan for up to 6 family members who live together.
Each person on the plan uses their own account, so no one shares a password and everyone keeps their own saved music and playlists
Premium Family comes with:
Start a Premium Family plan
Spotify Family Member Not Premium In App Free
The person who wants to manage the plan signs up. They can use their existing account or create a new one.
Note: You can’t change the plan manager once they’ve signed up.
Starting a plan means only you can:
- Handle payments
- Set the address
- Invite and remove members
- Control explicit music
Note: If you already have Premium with a partner company (e.g your phone or internet provider), you first need to cancel with them and wait for your current Premium to end.
Invite Family Member Spotify Premium
Join a Premium Family plan
To join someone else’s plan, you must:
- Live with the plan manager (the person who signed up)
- Log into (or sign up for) your own account
- Enter the correct address
The plan manager sends you an invite to join.
Note: If you already have Premium with a partner (e.g your phone or internet provider), you first need to cancel with them and wait for your current Premium to end.
You're only allowed to change Family plans once a year.
Last year, Spotify asked users to share their GPS location or risk losing access to the Spotify Premium Family service. That was just a test, but now the music streaming service has made it a requirement for all Premium Family subscribers.
As CNET reports, on Sept. 5, Spotify updated the terms and conditions for its $15 per month Premium Family subscription. Under the Eligibility and Verification section it states that upon activation, Spotify will ask for a home address to be verified. However, that won't be the only time the location gets verified, with the text stating, 'We may from time to time ask for re-verification of your home address in order to confirm that you are still meeting the eligibility criteria.'
Spotify clearly states that the Family Plan is for a primary account holder and up to five family members who must be residing at the same address. The music streaming service knows some members are sharing their family plan with friends, and it's very keen to stop it. Location checking is certainly one way of doing that, but it doesn't come without a backlash from users and privacy advocates. After all, online privacy is a right, not a luxury.
Spotify has made it clear the location data is only collected to verify the Premium Family plan rules are not being broken. A spokesperson for Spotify confirmed that, 'Once verification of a family member's home address is completed, we do not store their location data or track their location at any time.' The company also states that the location data is encrypted and can be edited by the account owner.
The question Spotify users have to ask themselves is, do they trust Spotify with the location data? Alternatively you could ask, is the saving offered by the Premium Family plan worth Spotify having ongoing access to my family member's locations?