Amazon has yet to come out and explicitly confirm that some of its tablets have been spontaneously developing amnesia, but on Saturday Amazon did tacitly admit that this was a widespread problem.
Learn how to cancel your Spotify premium account to stop being charged for Spotify's music streaming service with our step-by-step video tutorial. Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. In step 1, you registered a client app in Azure AD. In this step, you get an authentication access token. Power BI apps are integrated with Azure Active Directory to provide your app with secure sign in and authorization. Your app uses a token to authenticate to Azure AD and gain access to Power BI resources. Get an authentication access token. If your account page shows a date when your plan will change to Spotify Free, you’ve successfully cancelled and won’t be charged again. If it doesn’t show this, try the cancel steps again making sure you reach the confirmation message. No, Spotify has removed the ability to register new Spotify accounts. New users are required to use Facebook. You can ask support to delete the current account, but you can't create a new one, you would need Facebook to get back in.
eBook Evangelist noticed that Amazon had posted the following message in its official support forums:
If you’re having trouble finding your photos, apps, or other content on your Kindle Fire HD 8.9”, please check your current registration status by swiping down from the top of the screen, selecting More, and then selecting My Account. If your device is not registered, tap the Register button and then enter your Amazon account information. After you register your device, you may need to download your content again. To learn more, go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201730090.
That’s great, but it doesn’t exactly help those who have already suffered from Amazon’s snafu.
As we’ve been hearing for the past week, many Fire tablet owners are reporting that their tablet has spontaneously deregistered itself, wiping its memory in the process.
Anything not backed up has been sent to the great Recycle Bin in the sky.
Speaking of which, Amazon does offer a backup option for its Fire Tablets, one which ill save your “device settings, network settings, bookmarks, installed apps, and more” to Amazon’s servers.
This option was enabled by default in my $50 Fire tablet, but it was not enabled in my Fire HD 7 (2014). That tablet was upgraded to Fire OS 5.1 Bellini earlier this year.
I don’t know when Amazon added the feature, so I can’t say with any certainty which generations of the Fire tablets have it, but if your tablet has a backup option you’ll be able to find it in settings menu > device options > backup & restore.
Depending on the model year, some Fire tablet might not have this feature, so it would be a really huge help if we could crowd-source a list of tablets which do and do not have a backup option.
Does your Fire tablet have this option?
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If you’re tired of Spotify, or are switching to an alternative to Spotify like Apple Music or Google Play Music, then you’ll need to cancel your subscription to Spotify if you pay for it. If you don’t, and you just want to delete your account, you’ll need to contact Spotify customer service directly. But before you make any decisions, there are a few things you need to know about deleting your Spotify account – primarily, that there is very little incentive to do so because of their “Forever Free” service.
IMPORTANT: Don’t end up paying more for Spotify
If you pay for Spotify Premium, you need to cancel your subscription before closing your account. Deleting your account will not cancel your billing, and you will continue to be charged until you cancel the actual account. Jump down here to learn how.
If you want to get the low down on everything you need to know about deleting Spotify, or cancelling your Spotify subscription, we’ve got you covered. In this article, we’ll break down:
Let’s get started with the most important things you should know before you delete or cancel Spotify.
What you need to know before deleting your Spotify account
There are many downsides to actually deleting Spotify, and very few upsides – so think carefully before you make this decision. All of the following will apply if you delete your Spotify account:
- You can’t ever use your username on Spotify again – even if you sign up in the future, that username won’t be available anymore.
- You will lose your playlists – there is no way to recover this saved information.
- You will lose followers – if you have any followers, they will be gone forever.
- You will lose everything in library – any saved songs won’t be kept for you.
- They have a free forever plan – a plan you never have to pay for, but it saves all of the above information, so there’s little upside to actually deleting your account, even if you cancel your subscription.
- You have to wait to get the student discount again – if you signed up using the student discount, you need to wait 12 months to apply for it again (you can sign up again, but you won’t get the discount).
- It is impossible to delete Spotify on mobile – you must do it in a web browser at Spotify.com.
- You must cancel first before deleting – if you have a paid subscription to Spotify, you must cancel that first and then delete your account.
- The only way to permanently delete the account is to contact customer service – there is no button you can tap or click to actually close your account – all you can do yourself is delete the app on your mobile device – but it won’t close your account.
Remember that once you actually delete Spotify, you can’t get any of your Spotify features and saved settings back – even if you sign up for it again immediately, 5 minutes later. You can however just end your subscription and stop paying rather than closing your account, which we recommend you do. However, we’ll show you how to do both below.
How to cancel your Spotify subscription
There are two ways to cancel your subscription to Spotify. This is the main, and easier, way:
- Go to Spotify.com and log into your account.
- In the top-right, click Profile, and then click Account in the drop-down.
- Click Manage Plan.
- Click Change or Cancel.
- Click Cancel Premium.
- Click Yes, Cancel.
- Confirm the date your account will revert to the free version of Spotify.
If you want another method, or have trouble doing the above, you can also fill out this form, and send it attached to an email to breakup@spotify.com. Someone from Spotify customer service will contact you to confirm you want to cancel your subscription.
Once this is done, if you still want to actually delete your account, this is a different process. Here’s how to get it done.
Unregister Spotify App Free
How to delete your Spotify account (in a web browser)
- Go to this Spotify close account link and sign in.
- Select Account from the available options.
- Click I Want to Close My Account Permanently.
- Review the information about what you’ll lose, and click the black Close Account
- Confirm that the account is closed on the next screen.
Unregister Spotify App Account
And that’s how you cancel and delete Spotify. If you’re looking for something similar to Spotify, we’d recommend you check out Pandora.com. We even have a free course with step-by-step tutorials on how to use Pandora here.