How To Manage Your Streaming Apps With a Password Manager

Password managers help you manage streaming apps by storing the login credentials for each of those apps in a secure digital vault. With more people streaming movies and TV shows on apps like Netflix and Hulu, and streaming music on apps like Spotify, more passwords are being created for all of those different streaming service accounts. 

The passwords created for each of those accounts should follow password best practices to prevent your streaming apps from getting hacked. Having to manage so many online accounts can be difficult, let alone having to remember the passwords for those accounts, which is where a password manager can help. 

Continue reading to learn about password managers and why it’s important to manage your streaming apps with the help of one. 

What Is a Password Manager?

A password manager is a tool that helps users manage, create and secure login credentials for their online accounts. Rather than having to remember multiple passwords, reusing passwords, using variations of the same password or weak passwords, a password manager helps you ensure that each of the passwords for your online accounts is strong and unique.

With a password manager, you only have to remember a single password which is known as your master password. When you log in to one of your accounts using a password manager, your stored credentials will autofill so you don’t need to manually type them or remember them yourself, making it simple to sign in to your streaming accounts on any device. 

Why Should I Manage My Streaming Apps?

With so many streaming app subscriptions, it can become hard to remember the passwords for each of your streaming accounts, which often results in people reusing passwords or using weak passwords that are easier for them to remember. This is a bad password habit that many people have developed because it’s impossible to remember strong, unique passwords for each online account on one’s own. 

Using weak passwords is a dangerous practice because weak passwords are easy for cybercriminals to guess or crack. With password-cracking tools, the speed at which cybercriminals can crack passwords has increased. The more simple a password is, the faster a cybercriminal can crack it, making it crucial to use strong passwords for each of your online accounts. 

You may be thinking that your streaming service accounts don’t need to be secured with strong passwords because none of your personal information is stored there, but that’s not entirely true. Hackers often hack streaming apps to gain free services for movie and music apps. Once a hacker gets into your account it can result in you being charged more since your payment information is stored in the account. For example, if a video streaming service offers add-ons, the hacker could add them to your account and you won’t notice until you see your statement. 

If you reuse passwords, one hacked account could be just the beginning. Cybercriminals could also attempt to compromise your other online accounts and be successful if that password is reused across multiple accounts. 

How a Password Manager Helps You Manage Your Streaming Apps

Here are some of the ways a password manager helps you manage your streaming apps. 

Remembers your passwords for you

Our streaming apps are just a small portion of the credentials we have to remember for all of our online accounts. On average, one person has 100 passwords. Remembering 100 strong, unique passwords is impossible to do on your own, which is why using a password manager is your best option for never forgetting your passwords again. 

Ensures each of your streaming apps has a strong password

Many password managers come with a capability that lets you know if the passwords you’re using for your accounts are weak or strong. If you notice that your password manager has marked a password you’re using as weak, you can take action immediately by updating your password to one that is strong. 

Makes sharing your streaming app logins more secure

Sharing login credentials for streaming apps is common, but you should be careful about how you choose to share the login credentials for your streaming accounts. Never share any sensitive information, including passwords, through text messages as it could be easily intercepted through a SIM swapping attack. SIM swapping is when a threat actor convinces your mobile carrier to activate a new SIM card so they can start receiving your phone calls and text messages on their phone.

A password manager makes it simple to securely share login credentials. Some password managers like Keeper® allow you to share credentials and other sensitive information securely with anyone, even if they don’t use Keeper Password Manager themselves. This is because Keeper offers a feature called One-Time Share which allows you to share your records with anyone on a time-limited basis. 

Simplifies securing your streaming apps with MFA

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is an additional layer of security you can add to your online accounts. When MFA is enabled, it requires that you provide additional authentication in addition to your username and password. Each of your online accounts should have MFA enabled to prevent an unauthorized individual from gaining access to your account. 

In addition to helping you secure your passwords, some password managers like Keeper allow you to store 2FA codes in the same record that stores the account’s username and password. This means when you log into that account, your login credentials and 2FA code are autofilled – removing the hassle of juggling multiple applications to secure your account with MFA. 2FA codes renew every 30-60 seconds, so sharing logins with friends and family can be difficult when MFA is enabled on an account, but because password managers share the entire record, sharing logins with accounts that have MFA enabled becomes seamless. 

Allows you to write notes in records for canceled subscriptions

A quarter of consumers cancel their video streaming subscriptions and then return to the same subscription within a 6-month period, according to a survey conducted by Deloitte. Many individuals only pay for the streaming apps for TV shows they are currently watching and cancel once they’ve finished watching them. It can become hard to keep track of which streaming apps you are and are not currently subscribed to, but with a password manager, you can make notes in each streaming app’s record so you know when you upgraded, downgraded or canceled your subscription. 

If you do decide to re-subscribe to a streaming app, the login credentials will remain in your password vault so you can easily sign back in. 

Start Managing Your Streaming Apps With the Help of Keeper

Password managers simplify your online life by aiding you in managing and securely storing the credentials for your online accounts, including your streaming service accounts. Don’t let poor password habits place your accounts at risk of being hacked, protect your streaming apps with a password manager like Keeper today.