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

Create a family group to share YouTube Television set—and other Google apps and services—with upward to five other members.

How family groups piece of work on YouTube Boob tube

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

An overview of YouTube Boob tube family plans

Create a family group

Sign up & create a family unit group

As the family manager, yous're the only person who tin buy and make membership decisions in YouTube TV. You'll as well set the home location and tin invite or remove family members from your family group.

To sign upward and create a family unit group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Boob tube.
  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 Abolish or Next.
  7. Your family members will get an email invitation to join the group, and can use their Google Accounts to sign in.

Family group requirements

Family unit manager requirements

To sign up for a family group, you must:

  • Exist 18 or older and have a Google Business relationship
  • Alive in the Usa​
  • Not be part of some other family group
  • Not exist signing up with a K Suite account

Note: Only the family unit manager can make membership decisions in YouTube Television set, such as canceling your membership.

Family member requirements

To join a family grouping, you must:

  • Be historic period 13 or older and accept a Google Account
  • Live in the aforementioned household as the family unit manager
  • Alive in the same state/region every bit the family unit manager
  • Not be part of another family unit group

What info family unit members tin can see

When you join a family, your family members may run across your proper name, photo, and email address.

Manage a family grouping

Add family unit members

If you lot're the family manager, y'all can invite up to v members to your family group. New family unit members must be 13 or older, have a Google Account, and live in the same household every bit yous. If someone leaves your family group or your invitation expires, y'all can send more invitations. If yous have any pending invitations, you can cancel them to invite someone else.

To add family members:

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

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

Remove family members

If you lot're the family director, you can remove members from your family unit group at any fourth dimension.

When y'all remove someone from your family grouping, the person y'all've removed will:

  • Lose access to YouTube Television set.
  • Go an email letting them know they've been removed. Other family group members volition too get an email notification.

To remove someone from your family group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Tv set.
  2. Select your contour moving-picture showand then SettingsSettingsand then Family sharing Family Sharing .
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Click the family group member you lot want to remove and selectRemove member.

Delete a family group

Bring together or exit a family unit group

Join a family grouping

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

The fine print:

  • To join a family unit grouping, you must be 13 or older, and have a Google Business relationship.
  • Y'all can access your own library, recordings, and personalized recommendations. Your viewing preferences are your own—we won't share your library or scout history across accounts.
  • You can only be part of ane family group at a fourth dimension. If you're invited to a different family group (YouTube Television or some other Google product), yous'll have to go out your family grouping to alter families.
  • Google Apps for Business concern (1000 Suite) accounts are non eligible for family groups.

Exit a family group

When you leave a family group, you'll keep your Google Business relationship merely will lose access to YouTube Goggle box. Your preferences will exist saved in case you restart later.

Exit your family group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your contour flickand then Settings Settings and then Family sharingFamily Sharing.
  3. Adjacent to "Family Sharing," select Manage and you volition be redirected to g.co/YourFamily.
  4. In the topleft corner, select Menu .
  5. Select Get out your family unit grouping.
  6. Enter your password, then select Confirm. Your family unit manager will get an e-mail notification that you've left the family unit grouping.

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

Locations & simultaneous streaming

Location requirements

Location requirements work the same if you're sharing your YouTube TV membership with a family group. The family director sets the home surface area, and each family member must primarily live in the same household.

Family grouping members need to periodically use YouTube TV in your home location to keep admission. Otherwise, the family manager volition accept to change the domicile location. If the family unit manager can't change the dwelling location, family unit group members will need to go an individual membership.

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

Simultaneous streaming

Family unit grouping members tin use YouTube Telly on upward to 3 separate devices at the same time. If i fellow member is watching on both a reckoner and a mobile device, it counts every bit two of the three available devices.

If yous're a family member whose family cancels their YouTube Boob tube membership, you can sign up for an private membership. To sign up, exit your family group and then sign up for YouTube TV with your own Google Account.

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