Guide on how to Change your Hotstar Account Password

Hotstar is considered to be the most streaming web app for web shows in India. With its extensive content catalogue, that includes the latest web series and its originals, live sports, new movies you can watch much more on this fantastic application. This entertainment application also has the right to stream the ICC world cup in certain regions.

Despite one of the biggest streaming video platform, it lacks some of the privacy features. Most of the people across the globe who are using Hotstar face the problem related to changing the password in this entertaining application. This giant video streaming platform has some inbuilt issues like we cannot log out all the users from it neither from the desktop nor from the mobile devices.

If you are a binge-watching fan and loves to get into all those web series and popular shows then there is great news for you. Many videos and websites on YouTube offer Hotstar premium cookies that will make easy to watch shows that can access to premium users. That’s great, yeah? But do you think about how this could have happened? Due to the lack of privacy in using Hotstar.

So, if you are facing the problem in streaming your favourite shows, even if you are a premium user then its time for you to change your Hotstar premium account password. Most of the people face these issues like they are not able to play more than one video in their premium accounts or not able to access their shows.

One more lacking factor lies within Hotstar is that the people even the premium account users are not able to see which devices are login their Hotstar account. Therefore, to stop the shows from being stopped they left with only one choice i.e. to change their password. In Hotstar policy it has been mentioned that it allows only one to simultaneously stream at a particular premium account.

So, the message you get that you cannot view the video is either somebody is already viewing that video from your account or you have not closed the previous one you are watching on the previous device. To solve this issue you need to change your Hotstar premium account password.

Also, if you don’t want to change your Hotstar premium account password and want to solve this issue then you can mail them at premium@hotstar.com and this way will make the technical team clear about the problem and they will help to clear all things from the backend. Now let’s see how you can change your Hotstar premium account password:

Steps to change your Hotstar premium account password:

It’s time for you to change your Hotstar premium account password and set a strong password to secure your account. Though it is very simple to change your password just by clicking “forgot password” in the Hotstar application, we will guide you through every step within this article.

Also, please make a note that you can only change the password for those Hotstar premium accounts that you have signed in using an email. But don’t worry you can change the password for those also whom you signed in using a mobile number.

The difference is that in the mobile number you will get a 4 digit one-time password that will allow you to make changes. In this Hotstar password changing guide, we will let you know how you can change the password in mobile application and on the website interface. So, let’s begin with the steps. 

To change your Hotstar premium account password on your mobile you need to follow these steps:

Step 1: You need to download Hotstar application on your mobile of you don’t have. Because some people use Hotstar in a web browser in mobile also. So make sure you have an application on your mobile. If you have an application in your mobile devices then you need to open it and login into it. 

Step 2: After login your Hotstar account, you need to click on the three bars placed on the top left corner of the application. When you tap on it, you will see your username placed above. 

Step 3: When you hit your account email or username placed on the top menu, then you need to logout the application. Once you logout your Hotstar account then you need to open the application again and need to navigate the login page.

Step 4: Once you proceed towards the login page then you will see an option saying “having Facebook account or email” and you need to enter your email. 

Step 5: Once you enter your email address you will be redirected to the password page and here you will see an option “forgot password“. When you click this option they will ask the email id from which you have registered the Hotstar account. You need to enter that mail and click on continue. 

Step 6: After clicking on continue option, you will see a message displayed saying “instructions on resetting the password will be sent on the below email id” which means the instructions will be sent on your registered mail which you have entered. In that mail, you will get a link for resetting the password. 

Step 7: Click the link you have received over your mail and hit enter. 

Now you can enter the new strong password and click on update. 

In this way, you can change your Hotstar premium account password within minutes on the mobile device. 

To change Hotstar premium account password on PC, you need to follow these steps:

Note: If you are going to change the password you will get logout from all your devices. 

Step 1: Click on the profile picture on the top left of your Hotstar account page and click on My Account option from the dropdown menu. 

Step 2: You will see an option for change password when you click the dropdown from my account. Once you click on it a pop up will be displayed saying you need to check your mail. Click on OK option on that pop-up. 

Step 3: Open your registered mail id and check inbox. A mail regarding changing the password would appear in your inbox and you need to click on the Change Password button present in that mail.

Step 4: Once you click on it you will be redirected to password changing page and you can now change your password with the new one. Once you enter your password just click on the update button.

In this way, you can change the password from your PC or computer. 

Conclusion

In this article, we have given you a complete step guide to change your Hotstar Password whether you are using this fantastic application on mobile or PC. These methods will surely work whether you want to change your Hotstar Premium account password or just want to recover it.

You must keep strong passwords because many people use VPN i.e. virtual private network to access or hacked the premium accounts. This can be done by most of the gamers as well as hackers. So it is better to be cured rather than got stuck in the situation which is difficult to handle.