How to see who else is using your streaming service subscriptions

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It’s not difficult to share a password for Netflix or Spotify with a friend or leave yourself signed in at someone else’s house or in a hotel room, which means, after several years, there could be a host of people sharing your streaming services that you’ve completely forgotten about.

Whether it’s an ex-partner, a niece or nephew, a college roommate from back in the day, or whoever else, you don’t necessarily want your accounts being used by a whole cast of characters. It can lead to restrictions on your account, and it’s not great from a digital security perspective either.

Thankfully, you can check who’s logged in to your accounts relatively quickly and boot them out if needed. We’ll cover some of the most popular services here and will offer the steps to follow both on the web and (if available) on your mobile device. If we don’t mention one that you’re using, you should be able to find a similar feature somewhere in the settings.

Netflix lets you view and sign out of any active devices.

The process is similar if you’re in the Netflix mobile app: 

Disney Plus lets you log out of all of your devices at once.

The same option is accessible from the mobile apps as well: 

If anyone else is using your account somewhere else, they’ll be sent back to the login screen. 

Manage Your Devices shows a list of all the devices your account is currently logged in to.

Currently, you can’t access this setting through the Hulu mobile apps — you have to log in on the web to manage your devices.

Prime Video shows you a list of all the devices you’re logged in to.

You can get to the same screen in the mobile app, too: 

The Devices page has a list of all devices that HBO Max was recently logged in to.

You can get at the same screen in the mobile apps, too: 

You’ve probably logged in to Spotify on more devices and apps than you think.

Currently, there’s no way to get to these options through the mobile apps, so you’ll have to take care of device management in a web browser.

All your device management features run through your main Google account.

For Google’s streaming services, all the device management features run through your main Google account rather than the individual apps. 

It’s easier to manage all of this on the web, but you can get to it on mobile, too. 

Your Apple ID account applies to everything associated with it, including all of your devices.

As with Google, the Apple streaming services are a little bit different. Your Apple ID account applies to everything associated with the device you’re on. That main login on your iPhone or Mac (or whatever it is) dictates the services and apps you have access to.

You can get at this list of devices from iPhones and iPads, too:

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