How to Unlink Spotify from Facebook Account

Spotify wants you to sign up or sign in to their streaming platform quickly and easily. One of the ways to do this is to offer to link your Facebook account to Spotify. Most of us already have a Facebook account, and using it to sign up for another service can be hassle-free and tempting.

Not everyone is happy with it. Quite a few people leave Facebook citing privacy, security and other issues, and one option for them is to disconnect Spotify from their Facebook account. The problem is, Facebook doesn’t want to let you go. But we are determined.

Let’s start.

1. Create a New Account

Well, don’t blame me for suggesting this first. You will create a new Spotify account with a different email id than the one you use for your Facebook account. It’s also easy to create a new email ID using Gmail or Outlook.

Using Soundiiz you can easily export your playlists and songs to another music streaming service and get them back or save them to the cloud. No worries there.

Once the new ID is created, use it to sign up for a new Spotify account. Unsubscribe by removing your credit card (payment method) from the old account. Sign out of all devices in Settings > Account overview.

We need to cancel the old subscription so Spotify doesn’t get confused. Otherwise, you will accidentally reactivate your old account.

Now send a request to the Spotify team to permanently close the account. Non-Premium users are allowed to close their accounts themselves.

When you close your Spotify account, you will:

• not being able to use the same Spotify username again
• losing access to playlists, followers, and anything saved in your Library
• unable to apply a student discount for the next 12 months (support staff can help)

Pro Tip: Another way to transfer all your playlists to a new Spotify account is to make them all public. You can then search for and subscribe to them from the new account.

2. Disconnect from Settings

There are two situations here. One is where you create a Spotify account and then add the Facebook account. It was an afterthought. The second is where you use Facebook account details to create a Spotify account. What did you do?

Let’s take the first one because it’s pretty simple. Open the Spotify desktop app and go to Settings > Social. There is no way to do this from mobile apps.

Under the Social heading you will find the Disconnect from Facebook button. You can’t view it in the screenshot above because I never linked my Facebook account in the first place. This much.

3. Use Forget Password Workaround

It’s easy but not obvious for those who use their Facebook account to sign up. The title says it all but I’ll explain. Sign out of your Spotify account in the web app (browser) and then click the ‘Forgot your password’ link.

After that, follow the on-screen instructions and click the password reset link you just received in your email inbox. Create a new strong password. Use the email id and password to login to make sure it works and you are no longer dependent on Facebook. Follow the steps in point 2 above to disconnect Facebook from Spotify settings.

Now, open Facebook’s apps page to uninstall Spotify from there. To do this, locate the Spotify app and click on the View and edit button on the right. Now, click on Uninstall at the bottom of the popup below.

You will be informed that removing Spotify from Facebook may delete your Spotify account. This will not happen and you already checked this new password to log into Spotify, right? For security reasons, leave the ‘Notify to Spotify’ box checked and then click Uninstall again.

4. Contact Spotify Support

Some users have reported that contacting the Spotify support team did the trick for them within minutes. Explain to them that you need to disconnect your Facebook account from Spotify without losing data and share your alternate email id with them. They will update your profile for you.

I wish there was a direct way to update the email id in Spotify. This would have saved a lot of people a lot of trouble. However, if the support staff is helping with the transition, that’s fine.

Find the Book

I stopped using Facebook to sign up for different services a long time ago. Actually, I’ve removed most apps from my Facebook account and I have a new ground rule. Always use an email id to sign up or you can also use your Google or Apple account. Using Google is the same as using your Gmail ID and I trust Apple to protect my data.

Facebook’s fallout with Cambridge Analytica was a wake-up call. Security issues and vulnerabilities have plagued the social media giant ever since. Somehow, they are always at the center of one argument or the other. You don’t want all this hanging around in your head the next time you log into Spotify to listen to the new song. After all, we use Spotify for relaxation, not fatigue.

Next: Did you miss making Playlists? Learn how to make full use of the private radio feature in Spotify and create playlists from the next article link.