https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Names-are-Hashses/m-p/5183490#M97678 <P><STRONG>Plan</STRONG></P><P>Premium</P><P><STRONG>Country</STRONG></P><P>USA</P><P><STRONG>Device</STRONG></P><P>Surface Book 2</P><P><STRONG>Operating System</STRONG></P><P>Windows 10</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="stschaef_0-1617819454429.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/127608i9B39CFEC1A4814D5/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="stschaef_0-1617819454429.png" alt="stschaef_0-1617819454429.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>My Question or Issue</STRONG></P><P>If you look in the above picture, some of my friends (who have real names) are being displayed as what appears to be their unique identifiers on the backend.</P> Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:18:33 GMT stschaef 2021-04-07T18:18:33Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Names-are-Hashses/m-p/5183490#M97678 <P><STRONG>Plan</STRONG></P><P>Premium</P><P><STRONG>Country</STRONG></P><P>USA</P><P><STRONG>Device</STRONG></P><P>Surface Book 2</P><P><STRONG>Operating System</STRONG></P><P>Windows 10</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="stschaef_0-1617819454429.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/127608i9B39CFEC1A4814D5/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="stschaef_0-1617819454429.png" alt="stschaef_0-1617819454429.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>My Question or Issue</STRONG></P><P>If you look in the above picture, some of my friends (who have real names) are being displayed as what appears to be their unique identifiers on the backend.</P> Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:18:33 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Names-are-Hashses/m-p/5183490#M97678 stschaef 2021-04-07T18:18:33Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Names-are-Hashses/m-p/5184231#M97741 <P>Hi <a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/15888432">@stschaef</a>,&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Welcome to the Community and thanks for reaching out about this.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The usernames are&nbsp;designed to identify the users in the app and they can't be changed. However, the users can choose their own display names which will be&nbsp;the ones showing on their profiles instead of their usernames. For more info, you can check <A href="https://support.spotify.com/article/change-my-username/" target="_blank">this</A> article.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Keep in mind that they can only do that from their own accounts.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Lastly, we don't recommend sharing private info in the Community. In this case, we suggest that you edit your post and delete this info.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>If you have any questions, just let us know.</P> Thu, 08 Apr 2021 19:14:44 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Names-are-Hashses/m-p/5184231#M97741 Eni 2021-04-08T19:14:44Z