How to Get an Access Token with a Different Audience During the Login - NextJS - Auth0

Last Updated: Sep 10, 2025

Overview

When using the getAccessToken function, sometimes the need to pass the audience might arise, but it seems that this cannot be dynamically added, like in auth0-react. It appears to be stuck with the single audience that was provided after the user logs in.

This article clarifies whether there is a way to use getAccessToken to get an access token with a different audience than what was used on the original login.

Applies To

Access Token
NextJS - Auth0
getAccessToken

Solution

The function getAccessToken uses the refresh grant - so the audience cannot be updated on the access token using this. It is needed to log in again to get an access token for a new audience (which can be done using the SDK).

One of our engineers has implemented a workaround for a similar requirement, available here.

However, please note that this code is just to be used as an example and should be tested thoroughly before being put into production.