If you’re still on your parents' Spotify Family plan after moving out of the house, keeping your share of the subscription could be getting harder.
Spotify is now asking some Premium Family members to scan a changing QR code on their plan manager’s phone to verify that they live together, according to Spotify's support page. Members have seven days from the date of notification to complete the check. Miss the deadline or fail verification, and they cannot join a different Family or Duo plan for 12 months.
That could put a sizable dent in the savings from sharing. In the U.S., Premium Family costs $21.99 a month for up to six accounts — roughly $3.67 each if everyone splits the bill equally. Premium Individual costs $12.99 a month, more than three times that amount.
Despite the name, Spotify's Family subscription doesn't cover relatives living wherever they please.
The company originally introduced its Family plan in October 2014 for five accounts, touting a $4.99 per-month subscription in the U.S. for each additional family member, on top of the main subscriber’s $9.99 subscription. (They expanded to 6 accounts in 2016.)
In a 2019 newsroom post, Spotify announced updates to the Family plan and described it as for family members "living under one roof." They are clearly starting to take that terminology more seriously.
As of an Oct. 19 report by 9to5Google , Family plan members must share an address and allow the company to request verification again to confirm it. Rumors about this feature also predate this week's coverage: A Reddit post from December 2025 describes the same rotating-code verification.
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