Can You Stay Logged In to Two Twitch Accounts on the Same Computer?

Can you be signed in to two Twitch accounts on one computer? #

Twitch's Help Center (read 3 October 2026) describes one way to move between your accounts on the website: log out of the current one, then sign in again. It does not describe a list of accounts that stay signed in together on twitch.tv. A browser profile keeps its own cookies (Chromium's documentation lists cookies among the data a profile holds), so a Twitch sign-in made in one profile stays out of another. That is why two profiles can hold two accounts side by side, while switching inside one profile means logging out first.

This guide covers twitch.tv in a desktop browser. Streaming software, consoles and TV apps are outside it.

How does Twitch let you have more than one account? #

Twitch's Creating an Account page lets you open further accounts whenever you like, provided each one keeps to the Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. For someone who only wants back into the first account, it adds that you probably do not need a second one. Two details decide how easy a second account is: the email address and the phone number.

Email. When you verify the email on an account, Twitch switches off creating further accounts with that address, which it describes as protection against abusive behaviour aimed at you. To reuse the address, open Settings from your profile picture at the top right, then look under Security and Privacy, in the Contact part, for Enable additional account creation (Email). Twitch says that turning it on lets you register a single additional account. The same page notes that sign-up with Google, Apple or Amazon does not support an email tied to several Twitch accounts, so the extra account uses ordinary sign-up with a username and password.

Phone. The Managing Your Phone Number page says you can add the same number to more than one Twitch account. You verify it on each one, nothing needs changing on the others, and it does not matter whether an account already using the number is active, disabled or deleted.

To create a second account on an email you already use:

1. Sign in to the account whose verified email you want to reuse.
2. Open Settings and turn on Enable additional account creation (Email).
3. In a separate browser profile, or after logging out, sign up with a username and password and that email.
4. Verify the new account as Twitch asks, then note its recovery email and phone number somewhere safe.

How do you switch accounts the way Twitch describes? #

The Help page on signing up and logging in with Google, Apple or Amazon covers people whose Twitch accounts share one email. Its flow, as read on 3 October 2026:

1. Sign in with your social login provider.
2. Confirm your identity with the one-time code Twitch sends to your email.
3. In the first linking session, choose which of your accounts to link. Twitch then logs you into it.
4. From then on, signing in with the provider shows the multi-account picker, a page listing every Twitch account tied to that email, split into selectable accounts and already linked accounts.
5. To switch, log out of the current account in settings and sign in with the provider again to return to the picker.

Accounts that use a username and password follow the same idea: log out, then sign in with the other account's details. Twitch adds that a password-based account is not linked automatically to an existing social login, even when the email matches.

If you cannot remember the other account's username, open twitch.tv/user/account-recovery, enter the email or choose a country code and enter the phone number, select Continue, then I Don't Know My Username. Twitch says it emails or texts you a list of every account linked to it. The pages read describe linking accounts to a social login provider; they do not describe merging two accounts into one.

What happens in one browser, and what are your options? #

Twitch's Sign Out Everywhere option (Settings, Security and Privacy, Security) logs you out wherever you are signed in, third-party applications included. Use it deliberately: it ends every session of that account. The routine for running several accounts in parallel is in separate browser profiles for Twitch, and what a browser profile is explains the idea behind it.

What if it does not work? #

Use only accounts you own or are authorised to manage, and keep to Twitch's rules. The rules guide shows where the lines are drawn.

Where ADSSPEED fits #

ADSSPEED is a desktop app for Windows and macOS that manages many browser profiles. Every profile keeps its own cookies, local data and browser settings, so the Twitch accounts you manage can stay signed in side by side without signing each other out. Profiles can be opened, stopped and organised in bulk, and profile data stays on your own computer. It does not change Twitch's rules or its verification steps. ADSSPEED is not affiliated with Twitch.