Max password sharing: everything you need to know about the impending crackdown

Max is the next streaming service hoping to put a stop to password sharing among subscribers. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) confirmed the password-sharing crackdown plans earlier this year and has since revealed when we can expect to learn more about when the new account restrictions will start to be enforced.

This news comes after a Max price hike, which saw an increase of $1 a month and $10 per year in June 2024. The streamer’s proposed password-sharing crackdown is essentially another form of a price rise, and more may be on the way over the coming months.

If you’re subscribed to some of the best streaming services, you’ll be all too familiar with their efforts to crack down on password sharing. Netflix’s password-sharing clampdown began in May 2023 and was followed by the Disney Plus password-sharing crackdown in Canada, the US, and UK (alongside Hulu in the US) in September 2024.

So, if you want to continue watching the best Max shows and best Max movies, you’ll want to know when these changes might take effect and what they’ll involve, which we’ll go into below. We’ll be updating this article as soon as we have more up to date information regarding Max’s password crackdown plans.

What are the Max password sharing rules?

Max is in the early stages of implementing a password-sharing crackdown. We learned more about Max’s password-sharing crackdown in November following WBD’s earnings call, where the company’s CEO of streaming JB Perrette said that it would start to share some “very soft messaging” later in December 2024.

We don’t have a confirmed date for when the changes will officially take effect, but Perrette did say that more progress on the…