Shared YouTube Television receiver memberships & family groups

Create a family group to share YouTube Goggle box – every bit well as other Google apps and services – with up to 5 other people.

How family groups work on YouTube Boob tube

  • If yous've purchased a YouTube Television set membership, you tin can create a family unit group to share your membership with upwards to five people at no boosted cost. When y'all create a family group, yous become the family managing director.
  • Every bit the family manager, y'all can invite family unit members (xiii or older) to join your family grouping.
  • Equally a family group member, yous tin build your own personal library of content in YouTube Goggle box. Your viewing preferences and DVR are all your ain – we won't share your library or watch history with your family grouping.
  • Sharing YouTube Television set as part of a family unit group also lets you share other Google services with the aforementioned people. Larn more than about family groups on Google.

Create a family group

Sign upwardly & create a family unit group

As the family manager, you lot're the merely person who can purchase and make membership decisions in YouTube TV. Yous'll also set the home location, and can invite or remove family members from your family group.

To sign up and create a family unit grouping:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Television set.
  2. Select your contour photograph > Settings Settings > Family unit sharing Family Sharing .
  3. SelectFix up.
  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 receive an electronic mail invitation to join the group, and tin use their Google accounts to log in.

Family grouping requirements

Family manager requirements
To sign upwardly for a family group, y'all must:

  • Be 18 or older and have a Google business relationship
  • Alive in the United states​
  • Non exist part of another family group
  • Not exist signing upward with a One thousand Suite account

Notation: Only the family manager can make membership decisions in YouTube Television, such as cancelling your membership.

Family member requirements
To join a family group, you must:

  • Be age 13 or older and have a Google account
  • Live in the same household as the family manager
  • Alive in the aforementioned land as the family managing director
  • Not be role of some other family group

What info family members can encounter

When you join a family unit, your family members may come across your proper noun, photo and electronic mail address.

Manage a family group

Add family unit members

If yous're the family unit manager, you lot can invite upwards to five people to join your family unit group. New family members must exist thirteen or older, accept a Google account and alive in the same household every bit you. If someone leaves your family group or your invitation expires, you lot can send additional invitations. If y'all have any awaiting invitations, you can cancel them to invite someone else.

To add together family unit members:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Television set.
  2. Select your profile photo > SettingsSettings > Family sharing Family Sharing.
  3. SelectSet.
  4. Type the email accost or telephone number of the person who y'all desire to invite.
  5. Select Ship. You lot'll receive an email notification when someone joins your family.

Notation: The family members who you invite will come across your name, photo and email address.

Remove family members

If you lot're the family manager, you can remove people from your family grouping at whatsoever time.

When yous remove someone from your family group:

  • The person who you've removed volition nevertheless proceed their Google account.
  • The person who you've removed will receive an e-mail notification letting them know that they've been removed. Other family group members will as well be notified.
  • The person who you've removed will lose admission to YouTube TV.

To remove someone from your family grouping:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your contour photograph > SettingsSettings > Family sharing Family Sharing .
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Click the X next to the family group member who y'all desire to remove.

Delete a family group

To delete a family grouping:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile photo > Settings Settings > Family sharing Family Sharing.
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Select Delete your family group.
  5. Enter your password, then select Confirm.

Notation: If you delete your family group, you'll merely be able to create or bring together another family group i more time in the adjacent 12 months.

Join or exit a family grouping

Join a family group

If the family unit manager with a YouTube TV membership has invited you to join the family unit grouping, you'll receive an email invitation. Follow the instructions in the invitation to bring together the family grouping.

The small-scale print:

  • To join a family group, you must exist 13 or older and have a Google account.
  • You lot tin access your own library, recordings and personalised recommendations. Your viewing preferences are all 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 different family group (for YouTube Tv set or another Google product), yous'll have to leave your family group to modify families.
  • Google Apps for Business concern (M Suite) accounts are not eligible for family unit groups.

Exit a family unit group

When you leave a family group, yous'll go on your Google account merely will lose access to YouTube TV. Your preferences will be saved in case you rejoin at a later date.

To go out your family group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Goggle box.
  2. Select your profile photo >Settings Settings > Family sharing Family Sharing.
  3. Next to 'Family sharing', select Manage.
  4. Select Leave your family grouping.
  5. Enter your password, so select Confirm. Your family manager volition receive an e-mail notification that you've left the family group.

Notation: If you leave your family group, you lot tin accept an invitation to join a dissimilar family group or create your own grouping. Notwithstanding, you can only switch families once every 12 months. If you lot leave a family unit group and join a new ane, you won't be able to bring together some other family unit grouping for 12 months.

Locations & simultaneous streaming

Location requirements

Location requirements work the same if you're sharing your YouTube Idiot box membership with a family group. The family manager sets the dwelling house area, and all family members must primarily live in the same household.

All family group members must periodically use YouTube Television receiver in your home location to maintain access. If you don't, the family manager will either have to change the family'southward home location or yous'll demand to get your own individual membership.

Note: If you're using YouTube Goggle box while travelling, you'll get admission to certain programmes based on your location. Learn more about using YouTube TV while travelling.

Simultaneous streaming

Family group members can apply YouTube Tv set on up to three separate devices at the same fourth dimension. Note that if one family member is watching YouTube TV on both a computer and a mobile device, this counts every bit two of the three available devices – even though they're being used by the same account.

If yous're a family member and your family cancels their YouTube TV membership, yous tin sign upwards for an individual membership. To practise this, leave your family group and and so sign upward for YouTube Boob tube with your own Google account.

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