Shared YouTube Television memberships & family groups

Create a family group to share YouTube TV – as well equally other Google apps and services – with upwards to five other people.

How family groups work on YouTube TV

  • If you've purchased a YouTube Television membership, you tin can create a family group to share your membership with up to five people at no additional cost. When you create a family grouping, you become the family unit director.
  • Equally the family director, you can invite family members (13 or older) to join your family unit grouping.
  • As a family group fellow member, you lot can build your own personal library of content in YouTube TV. Your viewing preferences and DVR are all your ain – we won't share your library or lookout man history with your family group.
  • Sharing YouTube Tv set equally part of a family group besides lets you share other Google services with the aforementioned people. Learn more nigh family groups on Google.

Create a family group

Sign upwards & create a family group

As the family director, you're the but person who tin purchase and brand membership decisions in YouTube Goggle box. Yous'll also set the home location, and tin invite or remove family members from your family group.

To sign upward and create a family unit grouping:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Television set.
  2. Select your profile photo > Settings Settings > Family unit sharing Family Sharing .
  3. SelectSet upward.
  4. Create a Google family grouping.
  5. Agree to the YouTube Paid Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy.
  6. Select Cancel or Adjacent.
  7. Your family members will receive an email invitation to join the group, and can use their Google accounts to log in.

Family unit grouping requirements

Family unit manager requirements
To sign up for a family unit grouping, you must:

  • Exist 18 or older and have a Google account
  • Live in the United States​
  • Non be part of another family group
  • Not be signing upwardly with a G Suite business relationship

Note: Only the family managing director can make membership decisions in YouTube Goggle box, such equally cancelling your membership.

Family member requirements
To bring together a family group, you must:

  • Exist age thirteen or older and have a Google account
  • Alive in the aforementioned household as the family director
  • Live in the same country as the family manager
  • Not be part of some other family group

What info family members can run into

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

Manage a family group

Add family unit members

If you're the family director, you tin invite up to five people to join your family group. New family unit members must be 13 or older, have a Google account and live in the same household every bit you. If someone leaves your family group or your invitation expires, y'all can send additional invitations. If you have whatever awaiting invitations, you lot can cancel them to invite someone else.

To add family members:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Television set.
  2. Select your contour photo > SettingsSettings > Family sharing Family Sharing.
  3. SelectPrepare.
  4. Type the email address or phone number of the person who you want to invite.
  5. Select Send. You'll receive an e-mail notification when someone joins your family unit.

Note: The family members who you invite will see your name, photograph and email address.

Remove family unit members

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

When you remove someone from your family group:

  • The person who you've removed volition still keep 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 unit grouping members will as well be notified.
  • The person who y'all've removed will lose admission to YouTube Tv set.

To remove someone from your family group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile photograph > SettingsSettings > Family sharing Family Sharing .
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Click the X side by side to the family group member who you want to remove.

Delete a family group

To delete a family unit group:

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

Note: If y'all delete your family group, yous'll only be able to create or join another family grouping ane more time in the next 12 months.

Bring together or get out a family group

Join a family unit group

If the family managing director with a YouTube Boob tube membership has invited you to join the family group, you'll receive an email invitation. Follow the instructions in the invitation to bring together the family group.

The small print:

  • To join a family group, yous must be 13 or older and have a Google account.
  • You can access your own library, recordings and personalised recommendations. Your viewing preferences are all your own – nosotros won't share your library or picket history across accounts.
  • You tin just be part of ane family grouping at a fourth dimension. If you're invited to a dissimilar family group (for YouTube Tv set or another Google production), y'all'll accept to leave your family group to alter families.
  • Google Apps for Business (G Suite) accounts are not eligible for family groups.

Leave a family unit group

When you leave a family group, yous'll go along your Google account only will lose admission to YouTube Boob tube. Your preferences will exist saved in example you rejoin at a later appointment.

To go out your family grouping:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile photo >Settings Settings > Family sharing Family Sharing.
  3. Next to 'Family unit sharing', select Manage.
  4. Select Go out your family unit grouping.
  5. Enter your password, then select Ostend. Your family director will receive an email notification that y'all've left the family unit grouping.

Note: If you get out your family grouping, you tin accept an invitation to join a different family grouping or create your own group. However, you lot can only switch families one time every 12 months. If yous leave a family unit grouping and bring together a new one, you won't be able to join some other family group for 12 months.

Locations & simultaneous streaming

Location requirements

Location requirements work the aforementioned if you're sharing your YouTube TV membership with a family unit group. The family manager sets the home expanse, and all family members must primarily live in the aforementioned household.

All family group members must periodically use YouTube TV in your dwelling location to maintain access. If you don't, the family unit manager will either have to change the family unit's dwelling house location or y'all'll need to become your own individual membership.

Note: If you're using YouTube Tv while travelling, y'all'll get access to certain programmes based on your location. Learn more about using YouTube Idiot box while travelling.

Simultaneous streaming

Family group members can use YouTube TV on upwards to three separate devices at the same time. Notation that if i family fellow member is watching YouTube TV on both a computer and a mobile device, this counts as two of the three available devices – even though they're being used by the same account.

If you're a family member and your family unit cancels their YouTube TV membership, you can sign up for an individual membership. To practise this, exit your family unit group and so sign upwardly for YouTube Goggle box with your own Google account.

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