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

Create a family grouping to share YouTube Telly—and other Google apps and services—with up to 5 other members.

How family groups work on YouTube Television set

  • If you've purchased a YouTube TV membership, you tin create a family group. A family group lets you share your membership with up to 5 members at no extra cost. When y'all create a family group, you get the family unit manager.
  • As the family manager:
    • You tin can invite family members (xiii or older) to join your family unit grouping.
    • If y'all purchase extra subscriptions and packages, family members can view these add-ons from their accounts.
  • As a family group member:
    • Y'all can build your ain personal library of content in YouTube Boob tube. Your viewing preferences and DVR are your ain—we won't share your library or watch history with your family unit grouping.
    • You and other family group members can view any extra subscriptions and packages purchased past the family manager.
  • Sharing YouTube Telly equally function of a family group besides lets you share other Google services with the same members. Learn more about family groups on Google.

An overview of YouTube Goggle box family plans

Create a family group

Sign upward & create a family unit grouping

Equally the family director, you're the only person who can buy and make membership decisions in YouTube TV. You'll too set the home location and can invite or remove family members from your family group.

To sign upwards and create a family group:

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

Family group requirements

Family unit manager requirements

To sign up for a family unit group, you must:

  • Be 18 or older and take a Google Account
  • Live in the United States​
  • Not be part of another family group
  • Not be signing up with a G Suite account

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

Family member requirements

To join a family unit group, y'all must:

  • Exist age 13 or older and have a Google Account
  • Live in the same household as the family managing director
  • Alive in the same country/region as the family manager
  • Not be office of another family group

What info family members can meet

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

Manage a family group

Add family members

If you're the family manager, you lot tin can invite up to 5 members to your family group. New family members must be xiii or older, have a Google Account, and live in the same household equally you. If someone leaves your family unit grouping or your invitation expires, yous tin transport more invitations. If you accept whatsoever awaiting invitations, you lot tin abolish them to invite someone else.

To add family members:

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

Notation: The family members you invite will encounter your proper noun, photo, and email address.

Remove family members

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

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

  • Lose access to YouTube Idiot box.
  • Go an email letting them know they've been removed. Other family group members will likewise get an email notification.

To remove someone from your family unit group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile movieand then SettingsSettingsand then Family sharing Family Sharing .
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Click the family group member y'all desire to remove and selectRemove fellow member.

Delete a family group

Bring together or leave a family group

Join a family group

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

The fine print:

  • To bring together a family grouping, you must be 13 or older, and take a Google Business relationship.
  • You can access your own library, recordings, and personalized recommendations. Your viewing preferences are your own—nosotros won't share your library or watch history beyond accounts.
  • You can only be part of one family grouping at a fourth dimension. If you lot're invited to a different family group (YouTube Tv or some other Google production), yous'll have to get out your family group to change families.
  • Google Apps for Concern (G Suite) accounts are not eligible for family groups.

Exit a family group

When you leave a family unit group, y'all'll keep your Google Business relationship only volition lose admission to YouTube TV. Your preferences will exist saved in case you restart later.

Get out your family group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Boob tube.
  2. Select your profile pictureand then Settings Settings and then Family sharingFamily Sharing.
  3. Side by side to "Family Sharing," select Manage and you will be redirected to thou.co/YourFamily.
  4. In the topleft corner, select Menu .
  5. Select Exit your family group.
  6. Enter your countersign, and so select Ostend. Your family unit manager will get an electronic mail notification that you've left the family group.

Note: If you leave your family group, y'all can have an invitation to join a unlike family unit group or create your ain group. You tin can just switch families once every 12 months. If you exit a family group and bring together a new one, you lot won't exist able to bring together another family unit grouping for 12 months.

Locations & simultaneous streaming

Location requirements

Location requirements work the same if yous're sharing your YouTube TV membership with a family grouping. The family unit manager sets the dwelling area, and each family member must primarily live in the same household.

Family unit group members demand to periodically apply YouTube Boob tube in your domicile location to keep access. Otherwise, the family manager will have to change the domicile location. If the family unit manager can't change the domicile location, family group members volition need to get an individual membership.

Notation: If you're using YouTube Television while traveling, you'll get access to certain programs based on your location. Learn more than about using YouTube TV while traveling.

Simultaneous streaming

Family group members tin utilise YouTube TV on up to three dissever devices at the same time. If ane member is watching on both a estimator and a mobile device, information technology counts as two of the three available devices.

If y'all're a family member whose family cancels their YouTube Television membership, you can sign upwardly for an individual membership. To sign upward, leave your family grouping and and then sign up for YouTube Goggle box with your own Google Account.

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