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

Create a family group to share YouTube TV—and other Google apps and services—with upwardly to 5 other members.

How family groups work on YouTube Goggle box

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

An overview of YouTube Tv set family plans

Create a family unit grouping

Sign upwardly & create a family group

Every bit the family director, you're the only person who tin can buy and make membership decisions in YouTube Television set. You'll also prepare the home location and can invite or remove family members from your family group.

To sign up and create a family group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Tv.
  2. Select your profile picture show and then Settings Settings and then Family unit 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 Cancel or Side by side.
  7. Your family members will get an email invitation to bring together the group, and can use their Google Accounts to sign in.

Family grouping requirements

Family director requirements

To sign up for a family group, you must:

  • Be 18 or older and have a Google Account
  • Alive in the United states​
  • Not exist role of another family group
  • Not exist signing up with a K Suite account

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

Family unit member requirements

To join a family unit group, you lot must:

  • Be age xiii or older and have a Google Account
  • Alive in the same household equally the family managing director
  • Live in the same country/region as the family director
  • Not exist part of another family group

What info family members can see

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

Manage a family unit grouping

Add together family members

If you're the family manager, you can invite up to 5 members to your family group. New family members must exist xiii 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 tin transport more invitations. If you have whatever awaiting invitations, you can cancel them to invite someone else.

To add family members:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Idiot box.
  2. Select your profile pictureand then SettingsSettingsand then Family sharing Family Sharing.
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Enter the electronic mail address or phone number of the person you desire to invite.
  5. Select Ship. You'll go an email notification when someone joins your family.

Note: The family members you invite volition meet your proper noun, photo, and email address.

Remove family unit members

If you lot're the family director, yous can remove members from your family group at whatsoever time.

When you remove someone from your family group, the person y'all've removed volition:

  • Lose admission to YouTube TV.
  • Get an email letting them know they've been removed. Other family group members volition also become an email notification.

To remove someone from your family group:

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

Delete a family group

Bring together or leave a family unit group

Join a family group

If the family manager with a YouTube TV membership has invited y'all 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 grouping, yous must be 13 or older, and take a Google Account.
  • You lot can access 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 only be part of one family unit group at a time. If yous're invited to a dissimilar family group (YouTube TV or another Google production), y'all'll have to exit your family group to change families.
  • Google Apps for Concern (Yard Suite) accounts are not eligible for family groups.

Get out a family grouping

When you leave a family group, you'll proceed your Google Business relationship merely will lose admission to YouTube TV. Your preferences will exist saved in instance you restart afterwards.

Leave your family unit group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Tv set.
  2. Select your profile picand then Settings Settings and then Family sharingFamily Sharing.
  3. Next to "Family Sharing," select Manage and yous volition be redirected to g.co/YourFamily.
  4. In the topleft corner, select Menu .
  5. Select Get out your family group.
  6. Enter your password, then select Ostend. Your family director will go an email notification that you've left the family unit group.

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

Locations & simultaneous streaming

Location requirements

Location requirements piece of work the same if you're sharing your YouTube Goggle box membership with a family group. The family manager sets the home area, and each family fellow member must primarily alive in the aforementioned household.

Family group members need to periodically utilize YouTube TV in your domicile location to continue admission. Otherwise, the family director will accept to change the home location. If the family unit director tin can't change the home location, family group members will need to get an individual membership.

Notation: If yous're using YouTube TV while traveling, you'll get access to certain programs based on your location. Learn more well-nigh using YouTube Boob tube while traveling.

Simultaneous streaming

Family unit group members can employ YouTube TV on upwards to three carve up devices at the same time. If one member is watching on both a computer and a mobile device, information technology counts as two of the 3 available devices.

If you're a family member whose family unit cancels their YouTube TV membership, you can sign up for an individual membership. To sign up, exit your family unit grouping and then sign upward for YouTube TV with your ain Google Account.

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