How To Contact Paramount Plus Customer Support

Streaming services deliver movies, TV shows, and sports anytime, anywhere. But if something goes wrong, you might be wondering where best to turn. When you want to watch Top Gun Maverick or the Godfather and your Paramount Plus streaming service isn’t working, you need to contact customer service fast.

This article will explain everything you need to know.

How to Get in Touch with Paramount Plus Customer Service

After logging into your Paramount+ account, the customer support page includes a List of Supported Devices, Check Case Status, Contact Us, and extensive Help Topics pages.

Clicking on the Contact Us link directs you to four categories of help topics:

• Getting started
• What’s on Paramount+
• Payment & Subscription
• Technical Issues

Each of these have subtopics with drive traffic to FAQ pages. Past the FAQs and the search bar, in blue is “still need help?” Clicking that will pull up three methods of directly contacting Paramount+:

Chat

Chat is an easy way to contact Paramount directly from the webpage. Note that the link wasn’t working at the time of writing.

Social Media

Paramount+ gives three options for reaching out through social media: Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Clicking on the Facebook link redirects you to the Paramount+ Help Facebook page where you can post issues. The Paramount+ twitter handle is @askparamount and the Instagram page is @paramountplushelp.

Call

The Paramount+ phone number is 1-888-274-5343. Telephone support is available seven days a week from 9am to midnight EST for U.S. support only.

What to Tell Paramount+ Customer Support

When you reach out to Paramount+ Customer Support for a technical issue, be prepared to tell them the following:

• What kind of platform you’re using
• What kind of device you’re using
• What app you’re using
• What issue you have encountered
• If the issue is recurring
• If you’ve tried the service on another device
• What solutions you have already tried

Describing the problem in detail will help the customer service representatives solve the problem fast. If you use social media, include details and screenshots. Remember, anyone can see your social media posts, so don’t submit passwords, credit card or any other personally identifiable information through any social media channel.

What Kind of Problems Could You Encounter?

The issues that have been reported to Paramount+ include a variety technical and financial issues.

Poor Streaming Quality

If your videos are be distorted, intermittent, fuzzy, or you have buffering issues, try these solutions:

• Check your internet connection speed. Ideal upload speed is 60 frames per second for 4K or approximately 30Mbps. For lower resolutions, 10Mbps should be sufficient.
• Try the service on another device.

If this issue isn’t consistent or not present on other devices, ask customer service if there are known issues with your device, platform, or app.

App Crashing

An app crash or freeze is due to an unexpected stop of a signal to the app. The possible reasons for an app crash include:

• Too much traffic through the app
• Poor development or quality issues
• Older version of the app

If you see a black screen, the app unexpectedly closes or the screen freezes, try the following first:

• Mobile device
  • Restart the app.
  • Restart the device.
  • Make sure the app is updated with the latest version.
• Fire TV or Android TV
  • Force restart of app.
  • Restart device.
  • Clear cache.
• Desktop through browser
  • Make sure your browser is updated.
  • Disable any ad blocker software.
  • Clear your browser cache.
  • Close browser and reopen .
• Roku
  • Restart your Roku device.
  • Update your system though settings.
  • Check your network connection.

If none of these solutions work, check with customer service if they have other alternative solutions.

Error Messages on Video Playback

• Firewall or ad blocker restrictions often result in an error code 4201 or 1200.
• For codes 6040 or 6100, restart your Wi-Fi connection and then relaunch the app.
• Code 114 may be caused by a VPN that is not supported, an ad blocker enabled, or location services not turned on.

Live Streaming

Watching live content on Paramount+ requires GPS and location services to be turned on.

• Chrome: from your browser window, go to settings > privacy and security> site settings > location
• Firefox: click the globe icon to the left of the address bar. Go to more information>permissions>access your location
• Safari: go to Settings>Privacy>Location Services. Choose your browser and pick While Using App, Ask Next Time or Never

Local CBS Station Not Available

Streaming of your local CBS station is only available on the Paramount+ with SHOWTIME® plan. Paramount Essentials does not include access to your local station.

A complete list of CBS stations is located on Paramount+ help site. If you have the Paramount+ with SHOWTIME® plan and you cannot access your local station, be prepared to tell customer service the following:

• What device you are using
• What operating system you have
• What platform you are on

Cancel Subscription

You can cancel your subscription but how you do so depends on where you signed up.

• Desktop, mobile web, smart tv or gaming console
  • Login to paramountplus website.Click on your username in the upper right corner.Click “Account.”
  
  • Click “Cancel Subscription.”
    
• Apple App Store
  • Go to “Settings.”
  
  
  • Click your name.
  
  
  • Click “Subscriptions.”
  
  
  • Click “Paramount.”
  
  • Click “Cancel Subscription.”
    
• Apple TV
  • Go to “Settings.”
  • Click “Users & Accounts.”
  • Select your account.
  • Select “Subscriptions.”
  • Then “Cancel Subscription.”
• Android devices
  • From your computer or phone, go to the Google Play store.
  
  
  • Click on your name in the upper right corner.
  
  
  • Choose “Payment & Subscriptions.”
  
  
  • Click “Subscriptions.”Choose Paramount+.
  • Click “Cancel Subscription.”
• Fire TV
  • After logging into your amazon.com account, go to “Memberships and Subscriptions.”
  • Click “Manage Subscription.”
  • Choose link under “Manage Your Prime Video Channels.”
  • Find Paramount+ and select “Cancel Channel.”
  • Confirm.

FAQs

What devices does Paramount+ support?

Paramount Plus is available on all major devices including:

• Desktop via web

• iOS including both mobile and tablet running iOS version 13.0+

• Android including both mobile and tablet running Android 5+

• Android TV

• Fire TV devices

• Roku

• Chromecast

In what countries is Paramount+ available?

Paramount Plus is available in select countries outside the United States including Australia, Europe (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland), United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico and all of South America and Central America except Belize. Not all content will be available in all countries due to geo-licensing restrictions.

Customer Support Is of Paramount Importance

Paramount+ streams a wide range of content from live sports broadcasts of the NFL and UEFA Champions League to movies and original shows from Paramount and Showtime. Getting in touch with Paramount+ customer service can resolve a variety of technical and financial problems. Paramount+ provides a number of ways to get in touch, including through social media, chat or calling customer service. Be prepared to give information about your device and platform and a detailed description of the problem to the representative.

Have you contacted Paramount+ customer service? Were they able to solve your issue? Let us know in the comments section below.