Create & manage a shared YouTube Tv set membership, or family group

Create a family group to share YouTube TV—and other Google apps and services—with up to five other members.

How family groups piece of work on YouTube TV

  • If you've purchased a YouTube Television receiver membership, y'all can create a family group. A family group lets you share your membership with upward to 5 members at no extra toll. When you lot create a family grouping, you become the family unit manager.
  • As the family manager:
    • Yous can invite family members (xiii or older) to join your family grouping.
    • If you purchase extra subscriptions and packages, family members tin can view these add-ons from their accounts.
  • Every bit a family group fellow member:
    • You tin can build your own personal library of content in YouTube TV. Your viewing preferences and DVR are your ain—we won't share your library or watch history with your family group.
    • You lot and other family group members tin can view any extra subscriptions and packages purchased by the family director.
  • Sharing YouTube Idiot box as office of a family unit grouping besides lets you share other Google services with the aforementioned members. Learn more than about family groups on Google.

An overview of YouTube Television receiver family plans

Create a family group

Sign upward & create a family unit grouping

As the family manager, you're the only person who can buy and brand membership decisions in YouTube TV. You'll also set the home location and can invite or remove family members from your family group.

To sign upwards and create a family unit group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile motion-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 unit members volition get an email invitation to join the group, and can utilise their Google Accounts to sign in.

Family group requirements

Family director requirements

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

  • Exist 18 or older and accept a Google Account
  • Live in the United states​
  • Not be part of another family unit grouping
  • Not be signing up with a G Suite account

Note: Merely the family managing director tin can make membership decisions in YouTube TV, such as canceling your membership.

Family fellow member requirements

To join a family unit group, you must:

  • Be age 13 or older and have a Google Business relationship
  • Live in the aforementioned household as the family director
  • Alive in the same country/region equally the family director
  • Not exist role of some other family unit group

What info family members tin can see

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

Manage a family group

Add family unit members

If you're the family manager, you lot tin can invite upwardly to 5 members to your family group. New family members must be 13 or older, have a Google Account, and alive in the same household as you. If someone leaves your family group or your invitation expires, you can send more than invitations. If you take any pending invitations, you tin cancel them to invite someone else.

To add together family members:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Tv set.
  2. Select your profile pictureand 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 get an email notification when someone joins your family.

Notation: The family members you invite volition see your name, photo, and electronic mail address.

Remove family members

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

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

  • Lose access to YouTube TV.
  • Get an email letting them know they've been removed. Other family unit group members will likewise go an email notification.

To remove someone from your family grouping:

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

Delete a family group

Join or leave a family group

Bring together a family grouping

If the family unit managing director with a YouTube Television membership has invited you to join the family grouping, you'll get an email invitation. Follow the instructions in the invitation to join the family group.

The fine print:

  • To join a family group, you lot must exist xiii or older, and accept a Google Account.
  • Yous can access your own library, recordings, and personalized recommendations. Your viewing preferences are your ain—nosotros won't share your library or watch history across accounts.
  • You can but exist role of 1 family group at a time. If you're invited to a different family unit group (YouTube TV or some other Google production), you'll take to leave your family group to alter families.
  • Google Apps for Business (G Suite) accounts are not eligible for family groups.

Leave a family group

When y'all go out a family grouping, yous'll proceed your Google Account but will lose access to YouTube Idiot box. Your preferences will exist saved in example you restart later on.

Leave your family grouping:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile filmand then Settings Settings and then Family sharingFamily Sharing.
  3. Next to "Family Sharing," select Manage and you will be redirected to yard.co/YourFamily.
  4. In the topleft corner, select Menu .
  5. Select Leave your family group.
  6. Enter your password, then select Confirm. Your family director will get an email notification that you've left the family group.

Note: If you lot get out your family group, you tin can have an invitation to bring together a dissimilar family unit group or create your own grouping. Y'all can only switch families once every 12 months. If you get out a family group and join a new one, you won't be able to join another family grouping for 12 months.

Locations & simultaneous streaming

Location requirements

Location requirements piece of work the same if you're sharing your YouTube Boob tube membership with a family unit group. The family unit managing director sets the dwelling house surface area, and each family fellow member must primarily live in the same household.

Family unit group members need to periodically use YouTube TV in your home location to proceed admission. Otherwise, the family unit managing director volition accept to alter the home location. If the family manager can't alter the dwelling location, family grouping members volition need to get an private membership.

Note: If you're using YouTube Television while traveling, you lot'll become access to certain programs based on your location. Learn more near using YouTube TV while traveling.

Simultaneous streaming

Family group members can use YouTube TV on upward to three carve up devices at the aforementioned time. If ane fellow member is watching on both a estimator and a mobile device, it counts every bit two of the three bachelor devices.

If yous're a family unit member whose family cancels their YouTube Boob tube membership, you lot can sign upward for an individual membership. To sign up, leave your family grouping and and so sign upward for YouTube Telly with your own Google Account.

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