Create & manage a shared YouTube TV membership, or family group

Create a family unit group to share YouTube Tv—and other Google apps and services—with up to 5 other members.

How family unit groups work on YouTube Goggle box

  • If you've purchased a YouTube Telly membership, you can create a family group. A family group lets you share your membership with up to 5 members at no extra price. When you create a family grouping, you become the family director.
  • Every bit the family manager:
    • You can invite family unit members (13 or older) to join your family group.
    • If you purchase actress subscriptions and packages, family members can view these add-ons from their accounts.
  • As a family group member:
    • Yous can build your own personal library of content in YouTube Television set. Your viewing preferences and DVR are your own—we won't share your library or picket history with your family group.
    • You lot and other family unit grouping members can view any extra subscriptions and packages purchased by the family unit manager.
  • Sharing YouTube TV equally part of a family group also lets you share other Google services with the same members. Learn more well-nigh family groups on Google.

An overview of YouTube Goggle box family unit plans

Create a family group

Sign upward & create a family group

As the family unit manager, you're the merely person who tin buy and make membership decisions in YouTube Boob tube. You'll also set the home location and tin can invite or remove family members from your family grouping.

To sign up and create a family unit group:

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

Family group requirements

Family manager requirements

To sign up for a family unit group, y'all must:

  • Be 18 or older and have a Google Account
  • Live in the United States​
  • Not be part of another family group
  • Non be signing upward with a Thousand Suite account

Annotation: Just the family manager can make membership decisions in YouTube TV, such as canceling your membership.

Family member requirements

To join a family group, you must:

  • Exist age 13 or older and have a Google Account
  • Live in the same household every bit the family director
  • Live in the aforementioned country/region as the family manager
  • Not exist part of some other family group

What info family unit members can see

When y'all bring together a family, your family members may see your name, photo, and email address.

Manage a family unit group

Add family unit members

If you're the family unit director, you can invite up to 5 members to your family grouping. New family members must exist 13 or older, have a Google Account, and live in the aforementioned household as you. If someone leaves your family group or your invitation expires, you tin transport more invitations. If you have any pending invitations, you can cancel them to invite someone else.

To add family members:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Television.
  2. Select your contour pictureand then SettingsSettingsand then Family unit sharing Family Sharing.
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Enter the email address or phone number of the person y'all want to invite.
  5. Select Send. You'll get an electronic mail notification when someone joins your family.

Note: The family members you invite volition see your name, photo, and email accost.

Remove family members

If yous're the family manager, y'all can remove members from your family group at any time.

When you lot remove someone from your family group, the person you've removed will:

  • Lose access to YouTube Tv set.
  • Get an email letting them know they've been removed. Other family grouping members will as well go an e-mail notification.

To remove someone from your family group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Tv set.
  2. Select your profile pictureand then SettingsSettingsand then Family unit sharing Family Sharing .
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Click the family grouping fellow member you desire to remove and selectRemove member.

Delete a family grouping

Join or leave a family group

Join a family group

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

The fine print:

  • To join a family group, yous must be xiii or older, and have a Google Account.
  • You lot can admission 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 merely exist part of one family group at a time. If you're invited to a different family unit grouping (YouTube TV or another Google product), y'all'll accept to leave your family unit group to change families.
  • Google Apps for Business concern (Chiliad Suite) accounts are non eligible for family groups.

Go out a family group

When yous leave a family group, you'll go along your Google Account simply will lose access to YouTube TV. Your preferences will be saved in instance yous restart later.

Get out your family unit group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile pictureand then Settings Settings and then Family unit sharingFamily Sharing.
  3. Side by side to "Family Sharing," select Manage and you volition be redirected to grand.co/YourFamily.
  4. In the topleft corner, select Carte du jour .
  5. Select Leave your family group.
  6. Enter your password, and then select Confirm. Your family unit manager will get an e-mail notification that you've left the family group.

Note: If you lot leave your family grouping, you lot can accept an invitation to join a different family group or create your own group. You can only switch families in one case every 12 months. If y'all exit a family group and bring together a new one, y'all won't be able to bring together another family grouping for 12 months.

Locations & simultaneous streaming

Location requirements

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

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

Note: If you're using YouTube TV while traveling, you'll get access to sure programs based on your location. Learn more about using YouTube Idiot box while traveling.

Simultaneous streaming

Family unit group members can utilise YouTube Boob tube on up to 3 dissever devices at the same time. If i member is watching on both a computer and a mobile device, it counts every bit 2 of the three bachelor devices.

If you lot're a family member whose family unit cancels their YouTube Television membership, you can sign up for an individual membership. To sign upwardly, leave your family group and then sign up for YouTube Television set with your own Google Business relationship.

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