I Keep getting an error message on Apple Tv "Watching on Too many devices please sign out from the other devices to continue watching" please tell me how to fix that

Happened to me when watching a rented movie from my iPhone. I wanted to continue watching on my iPad but I got this error. I tried to clear history, force close the apple tv app from my iPhone, even shut down both my iphone and my iPad, but nothing worked.

And then, I forced finish the movie from my iPhone. You now, dragged the thing until the very end. I was finally able to watch on my iPad.

Depending on what you were trying to watch, the limit can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 devices.

For Family Sharing, if you have that, it will be all users in the group combined. You may need to ask them too, to cut down on simultaneous streaming on multiple devices.

Check your Apple ID device list to find where you're signed in - Apple Support. You can soft sign out from other devices from your iPhone, just to make sure other devices are not counted for this limit. Perhaps you’ll see a device in the list that you didn’t consider before.

When after that “Remove from account” action, any of those other devices want access to settings or content that requires authentication, then it will prompt to sign in again. Nothing is lost from it.