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What Supercell ID Actually Does, and What It Costs
By Editorial Team · published 2026-09-05 · updated 2026-09-05
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Supercell ID is the account layer under every Supercell game: it saves your progress off the device, lets the same account open on a new phone, and carries a friends list across titles. It costs nothing and has no password — each login sends a fresh code to your email instead. The catch is one line in the help pages that most players never read: since September 2023 you cannot opt out of it once you have joined. Everything else it does is reversible; that part is not.
What it is for
Without it, a game account lives on the handset. Lose the phone, reset it, or move to a new one, and the progress goes with it — there is nothing on a server tying that account to you.
Supercell ID is what makes the account portable. Sign in on another device and your Brawl Stars progress opens there; sign in inside a different Supercell game with the same address and it saves that game's progress too. One identity, several games.
The service also carries a friends list of up to 100 people that works across the games you have connected, so you can see who is online from whichever title you happen to open. Friends are added by QR code, by player ID or by a shared profile link, which keeps it independent of any social network.
There is a rewards programme attached to it in selected games as well — small bonuses for having the account connected rather than a separate currency to track.
How the login works
There is no password to choose or forget. Each time you sign in, Supercell sends a fresh verification code to the email address on the account, and that code is what lets you through.
Two consequences follow. Access to the inbox is access to the account — which makes the email address the thing worth protecting rather than any password. And some email domains are not supported at all; if you try to register one, the service refuses it and you need a different address.
Ticking Remember me on this device stops the codes on a phone you use regularly, which is also what makes switching between two of your own accounts painless.
Setting it up, and the second account
Signing up happens in the game's settings under the Supercell ID heading. It takes an email address and a code, and nothing else.
Starting a second account uses the same machinery in reverse: connect the current game first so the progress is stored, open the Supercell ID settings, log out, and choose to play without Supercell ID on the title screen. That leaves you on a brand-new account with the old one saved and switchable.
This is the supported way to have two accounts. It costs nothing and loses nothing, which is worth knowing before anyone considers the routes that break the terms.
The same mechanism is what makes a new phone painless. Install the game, sign in with the same address, enter the code that arrives, and the account is there — no transfer procedure, no support ticket, nothing to prepare in advance beyond having connected in the first place.
The part that is one-way
The help pages state it plainly: as of September 2023 it is no longer possible to opt out of Supercell ID once you have joined.
So there is no unlink button, no detach option and no way back to a device-only account. Searches for removing an account from Supercell ID are looking for something that was withdrawn.
What remains available is the harder version: requesting deletion of your personal data, which closes the game account permanently and takes all currency and progress with it, paid or not. That is not an opt-out — it is an ending.
Is it worth connecting?
For almost everyone, yes, and the reason is unglamorous. A phone lost without Supercell ID takes the account with it, and support cannot restore what was never tied to an identity.
The honest cost is the one above: joining is a decision you cannot reverse, only end. If that matters to you, decide before you connect rather than after — and use an email address you expect to keep, since it is now the key to everything the account holds.
Bottom line
Supercell ID is free, passwordless and genuinely useful: it makes progress survive a lost phone, moves accounts between devices, and lets one person run two accounts properly. The single thing to know before joining is that leaving is not on the menu — only deletion is. The practical summary is short. The login is free, it is what moves progress between phones, and it is also what a support ticket will ask for first — so set it up on a device you will still own next year, with an email you check.
