Create & manage a shared YouTube Telly membership, or family unit grouping

Create a family group to share YouTube TV—and other Google apps and services—with upward to 5 other members.

How family groups work on YouTube TV

  • If you've purchased a YouTube TV membership, you lot can create a family group. A family group lets you share your membership with upwardly to v members at no extra cost. When you create a family grouping, you become the family unit managing director.
  • As the family manager:
    • You lot can invite family members (xiii or older) to join your family unit group.
    • If you purchase extra subscriptions and packages, family members tin view these add-ons from their accounts.
  • As a family grouping member:
    • You lot tin can build your own personal library of content in YouTube Telly. Your viewing preferences and DVR are your ain—we won't share your library or spotter history with your family group.
    • You and other family unit grouping members can view any extra subscriptions and packages purchased by the family unit manager.
  • Sharing YouTube Boob tube as part of a family group also lets yous share other Google services with the same members. Larn more about family unit groups on Google.

An overview of YouTube Tv set family unit plans

Create a family group

Sign up & create a family unit group

Every bit the family manager, you lot're the only person who can buy and brand membership decisions in YouTube TV. You'll likewise set the dwelling house location and tin invite or remove family members from your family unit group.

To sign upwardly and create a family unit group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile picture and then Settings Settings and then Family sharing Family Sharing .
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Create a Google family group.
  5. Agree to the YouTube Paid Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy.
  6. Select Cancel or Next.
  7. Your family members volition get an email invitation to join the group, and tin use their Google Accounts to sign in.

Family grouping requirements

Family manager requirements

To sign upward for a family group, you must:

  • Be eighteen or older and have a Google Account
  • Live in the United States​
  • Not be part of another family group
  • Not be signing up with a M Suite business relationship

Note: Only the family unit managing director can make membership decisions in YouTube Telly, such as canceling your membership.

Family member requirements

To bring together a family group, yous must:

  • Be age 13 or older and have a Google Business relationship
  • Live in the aforementioned household as the family managing director
  • Alive in the same country/region equally the family managing director
  • Not exist part of some other family grouping

What info family members can run across

When you join a family, your family members may see your name, photo, and email address.

Manage a family group

Add family members

If yous're the family manager, y'all can invite upwardly to 5 members to your family grouping. New family members must exist thirteen or older, take a Google Account, and live in the same household as you. If someone leaves your family group or your invitation expires, you tin send more than invitations. If you have any awaiting invitations, y'all can cancel them to invite someone else.

To add together family members:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Goggle box.
  2. Select your profile moving-picture showand then SettingsSettingsand then Family sharing Family Sharing.
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Enter the email address or telephone number of the person you desire to invite.
  5. Select Transport. You lot'll get an email notification when someone joins your family unit.

Note: The family members you invite will see your proper noun, photo, and electronic mail accost.

Remove family unit members

If you lot're the family manager, you lot can remove members from your family group at any time.

When you remove someone from your family grouping, the person you've removed volition:

  • Lose access to YouTube Television set.
  • Get an email letting them know they've been removed. Other family group members will besides become an email notification.

To remove someone from your family group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Television.
  2. Select your profile pictureand then SettingsSettingsand then Family sharing Family Sharing .
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Click the family unit group fellow member you lot want to remove and selectRemove fellow member.

Delete a family group

Bring together or exit a family group

Join a family group

If the family unit director with a YouTube Tv membership has invited y'all to join the family grouping, you'll get an email invitation. Follow the instructions in the invitation to join the family group.

The fine print:

  • To join a family group, you must be 13 or older, and have a Google Account.
  • You can access your own library, recordings, and personalized recommendations. Your viewing preferences are your own—we won't share your library or watch history across accounts.
  • You can only be part of one family group at a time. If you're invited to a unlike family unit grouping (YouTube TV or another Google product), you'll have to get out your family grouping to change families.
  • Google Apps for Business (Thousand Suite) accounts are not eligible for family groups.

Exit a family group

When you lot leave a family group, you'll keep your Google Business relationship but will lose access to YouTube TV. Your preferences will be saved in instance yous restart later.

Go out your family group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile moving pictureand then Settings Settings and then Family sharingFamily Sharing.
  3. Side by side to "Family Sharing," select Manage and yous will be redirected to grand.co/YourFamily.
  4. In the topleft corner, select Menu .
  5. Select Leave your family grouping.
  6. Enter your password, then select Confirm. Your family director will get an electronic mail notification that you lot've left the family group.

Annotation: If yous go out your family group, you can have an invitation to join a different family group or create your own grouping. Y'all tin simply switch families once every 12 months. If you lot leave a family grouping and join a new one, you won't be able to join some other family group for 12 months.

Locations & simultaneous streaming

Location requirements

Location requirements piece of work the same if you're sharing your YouTube Tv set membership with a family unit group. The family unit manager sets the dwelling house surface area, and each family fellow member must primarily live in the same household.

Family group members need to periodically use YouTube Television in your dwelling location to keep admission. Otherwise, the family managing director will have to change the dwelling house location. If the family unit director can't alter the home location, family unit grouping members will demand to become an individual membership.

Annotation: If you're using YouTube TV while traveling, you'll go access to certain programs based on your location. Larn more most using YouTube Tv while traveling.

Simultaneous streaming

Family group members can utilise YouTube Goggle box on upwards to three separate devices at the same time. If one member is watching on both a computer and a mobile device, information technology counts as two of the 3 available devices.

If you're a family fellow member whose family cancels their YouTube Television set membership, you tin can sign up for an individual membership. To sign upwardly, get out your family unit group and and then sign up for YouTube TV with your own Google Account.

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