The Disney+ account you were sharing with your family and friends? It’s about to change, unless you pay $7.99 per month extra.
Streaming accounts are about to cost a little more, it seems, particularly if you were sharing your account with a family member who only used it in passing.
Disney has this week announced that paid sharing has arrived on the platform, which means subscribers of a Disney+ account that shared their accounts will see some logouts and limitations at times, largely on the folks they’ve shared the accounts with.
Officially, Disney has launched it as “paid sharing”, which much Iike Netflix’s extra member cost allows you to share your account with someone else by paying a little less per month.
In Australia, the paid sharing of an Extra Member is $7.99 per month, regardless of whether you’ve paid for your account for the full year, and it can only be provided for one member, accessing one profile specifically.
It’s a sign that folks sharing their accounts could see those extra logins forced out very soon, with the technology likely tracking logins from certain locations and networks.
Interestingly, subscribers using Apple’s iTunes/App Store for the billing won’t see the Extra Member pricing at all.
Our guess is this is missing in action largely because Apple doesn’t typically cater for two subscription types from one account simultaneously, limiting the addition of an extra member there. That doesn’t mean friends and family won’t be logged out if they use an account paid this way, just that you won’t be able to pay for the extra member at this time.
