Ready up & manage a YouTube family unit plan

Set up a YouTube family program to become a family unit managing director. As a family manager, yous tin share your YouTube Premium or YouTube Music Premium membership. You tin share your membership with upwardly to 5 other family unit members in your household. If you're a family member, you tin can join a family unit group to share a YouTube family plan.

Note: If y'all're a member of an existing Google family group, you lot can't purchase a YouTube family program. Only the manager of your family grouping can make the buy.

Things to know earlier you start

  • Family members sharing a YouTube family program must alive in the same household as the family managing director. Larn more than about family grouping requirements and what to do if yous encounter errors while setting up your family plan.
  • You can only change family groups once every 12 months.
  • Each family member's name, photo, and email accost will be shared with the group.
  • If you need assist with your YouTube TV family plan, you can get in touch with back up at whatsoever time.

How to set and manage a YouTube family programme

Family unit managers: Sign upwardly & create a family group

New YouTube Premium or Music Premium members

To get started, option a family manager who is 18 or older. The family manager is the only person who tin can buy a family program or make membership decisions. Learn more than about signing up for a YouTube paid membership.

To sign up for a YouTube Premium or Music Premium membership & create a family unit group:

  1. To sign up for a YouTube Premium membership & create a family group, go to https://world wide web.youtube.com/premium/family on a spider web browser. To sign up for a YouTube Music Premium membership & create a family unit grouping, go to https://www.youtube.com/musicpremium/family on a web browser.
  2. Click Become family plan. If you're eligible for a family plan trial, you may see an option to start a trial.
  3. If yous're the family unit manager of an existing Google family unit group, you'll encounter a dialog confirming your family group. Select Continue to keep with the buy and share your family programme with members of your existing family group. If step 3 does not apply to you, skip to step 4.
  4. If yous don't already take a Google family group, follow the steps to buy your subscription first. Then y'all'll exist guided through the process of creating a family group.

Existing YouTube Premium or Music Premium members

To upgrade your individual YouTube Premium or Music Premium membership to a family plan:

  1. Get to youtube.com/paid_memberships on a web browser.
  2. ClickBecome family unit plan.
  3. Click Go family unit programme again.
  4. Click Upgrade.
  5. Prepare your Google family grouping.
    • Are you the family manager of an existing Google family group? Select Continue to go on and share your family plan with members of your existing family group.
    • Are you creating a Google family unit grouping? To prepare a family group:
      • Invite upwards to v family members to bring together your family group, and send them invitations via email or text.
      • Select Send.
      • Family members volition get an invitation, and can select Become started to confirm their business relationship.
      • Family members who accept your invitation will join the family group and have access to your family program.
    • Are yous a family member of an existing Google family group? You can't purchase a YouTube family plan, but you can inquire your family manager to make the buy.

Notes:

  • Special offers are not transferable to YouTube family plans. If y'all upgrade to a family unit program during a free trial that's longer than 1 calendar month, your trial will exist shortened to i month. If later you cancel, you can't go dorsum to your complimentary trial. Larn more almost updating your YouTube paid membership.
  • If you're having trouble signing upward for a family unit plan, it may be because you have several Google Play payments profiles. If and so, larn how to update or switch your country/region profile.

Family managers: Add together or remove family members

Add family members

If y'all're the family unit manager, y'all tin can invite up to 5 family members to your family group.

Add together a family member:

  1. Sign in to the Google Business relationship associated with your YouTube Premium or Music Premium membership.
  2. Get to youtube.com/paid_memberships on a web browser.
  3. Select Manage membership Minimize .
  4. Click Edit next to Family sharing settings.
  5. SelectInvite family fellow member.
  6. Enter the email accost or phone number of the person you want to invite.
  7. Select Send. Y'all'll get an email notification when someone joins your family.

Remove family unit members

If you're the family director, y'all tin remove people from your family unit group at any time.

Remove a family unit member:

  1. Sign in to the Google Account associated with your YouTube Premium or Music Premium membership.
  2. Go to youtube.com/paid_memberships a spider web browser.
  3. Select Manage membership.
  4. Click Edit side by side to Family sharing settings.
  5. Select the name of the person y'all want to remove.
  6. Click Remove member.

​Things to know:

  • The family member you've removed will lose access to your YouTube family unit programme, merely will all the same keep their Google Business relationship.
  • They'll get an electronic mail notification letting them know they've been removed. Other family grouping members will likewise be notified.
  • They can't access any services shared by your family group.
  • If your family uses the Google Play store: Y'all'll still be charged for any pending purchases made by the removed family unit member. You tin can asking a refund for unwanted or accidental purchases.
  • If your family unit uses the Google Play shop: The removed family member will lose access to shared Google apps and services that other family members have added to your Google Play Family Library. Whatever content they've added to the Family Library volition also exist removed, and all family members will lose admission to that content.

Family managers: Other family manager tasks

Change your payment method

Cancel your paid membership

You tin can cancel your YouTube paid membership at any time. When you lot cancel, you'll yet have access to your paid membership until the cease of your monthly billing bicycle. Afterwards that, all family members will lose access to the paid membership, but will nevertheless proceed their Google Accounts.

 Family unit members: Join or leave a family grouping

Join a family group

If the family unit manager with a paid membership has invited you lot to join the family group, yous'll become an e-mail or text invitation. Follow the instructions in the invitation to bring together the family grouping.

Leave a family group or get an private YouTube paid membership

  1. Follow the instructions to leave your family grouping.
  2. Sign up for your own YouTube paid membership.

Notation: If y'all exit your family unit group, you tin accept an invitation to join a different family unit grouping or create your own group. You can only switch families once every 12 months. If y'all get out a family group and join a new one, you lot can't bring together some other family group for 12 months.

Location requirements for family plans

Family plan location requirements

To exist eligible to share a YouTube family membership, each family members must live at the same residential address every bit the family manager. Every 30 days, an electronic check-in volition confirm this requirement.

Having problem setting upward your family unit programme? If you lot're encountering an fault message that:

  • "Family is not supported"

Or

  • "State is non supported"

The country/region listed in your Google Pay account might non lucifer your electric current location.

Update your Google Pay profile to friction match your current location, and continue setting up your family plan.

If a family member'south country/region location doesn't match your location, they can't join the family group.

Get in touch with back up at any time if yous need assist with your YouTube family plan.

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