How does Spotify know if everyone lives at the same address?

Down the line, the Spotify app will poll your device’s GPS location periodically. As Spotify states, “Spotify will only use your GPS data to verify your location and nothing else.” So expect periodic polling of your device’s Location Services in an effort to discover the user’s location.

Does Spotify check if you live together?

Once you sign up for the family plan, Spotify will ask those on the plan to provide the company a home address using Google Maps. “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,” a Spotify spokesperson said.

How does Spotify verify address family plan?

To keep friend groups from posing as families, Spotify will begin asking Family Plan users to confirm their home address by sending Spotify their location. Without confirming your address to Spotify by sending your GPS location via Google Maps, you could lose access to your account.

Can Spotify family see each other?

The main account holder, the one that pays the bill will have access to each family member’s account. However, everyone else who is not the primary account holder will not be able to access each other’s accounts.

Does Spotify know your location?

As Spotify states, “Spotify will only use your GPS data to verify your location and nothing else.” So expect periodic polling of your device’s Location Services in an effort to discover the user’s location. Laptops and computers will have their locations determined via their IP address.

Does Spotify detect VPN?

Yes, a VPN works with Spotify. If your VPN egress address is in a country outside of the US it may not work due to copyright laws or Spotify not doing business with certain countries but a VPN itself would not be the source of the problem.

Can the owner of a Spotify family Plan see my music?

There is also some options in Spotify (Social setting) to set your session to private and not publish your activity. One thing I should note though, if your family knows your user and can search you on Spotify, they may be able to see any playlists and your top/recently played artists on your account page.

Can two people listen to Spotify at the same time?

Yes, two people can listen to a Spotify account at the same time — here’s how to do it in 2 ways. Two people can listen to the same Spotify account at the same time if you use an Offline Mode workaround, but you’ll need to have a Spotify Premium subscription.

How does Spotify know my location?

Can Spotify family see each other playlists?

Unfortunately everybody can follow you, without your permission for that. Each private session is active as long as you`re active on Spotify, if you`re not active for 6 hours the private session automatically is turning off.

Does Spotify Family Plan require the same address?

Spotify family plan members required to prove they live at the same address. By Aaron Mamiit September 15, 2019. Spotify will require family plan members to prove that they are all living at the same address, in a revived initiative to prevent abuse of the subscription option. The Spotify Premium Family Plan, which goes for $15 per month,

How does Spotify know if you are all at the same address?

Spotify could probably figure out if you are all at the same address fairly often based on IP addresses. However, the pain of the false negatives here are probably worse that missing folks abusing the family plan. No promises for the future, but for the moment, if you all have the same billing address, that is probably sufficient.

Do you have to live in the same house as Spotify?

Spotify wants your money, however it gets to them. However, the faq does mention that they should “Reside at the same physical address as you.” For the Spotify family plan, do you really have to all live in the same house? I used to work for Spotify and I can categorically say that all family members don’t need to be living at the same property.

Does Spotify track your location when you visit a family member?

“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,” a Spotify spokesperson said. But there are some flaws in this methodology.