Help signing in
Signing in to your BBC Account
How long will I be signed in for?
You’ll normally be signed in for two years, unless you sign out, delete your cookies or delete your app. You can find out more about cookies here.
After two years we’ll ask you to sign in again. Oh, and you can sign in with different accounts on the same device.
Deleting inactive accounts
From time to time, we delete BBC accounts that haven’t been used for over a year.
You may have received an email saying that we will delete your account after 13 March 2023. To keep it active, you can sign in directly rather than click the link on the email.
Find out more about BBC account closures.
Help using your Google account to sign in or register
You can use a Google account to sign in or register for a BBC account.
Once it’s set up, you won’t need a password to sign in to the BBC. That should make things easier.
Google shares your email address with us so we know which BBC account is yours. No other personal information is shared.
You can unlink your accounts at any time from your Google account settings. Go to ’Third‑party connections’ and look for the BBC.
Having trouble signing in?
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