Join a family on Google

When you join a family group, you can share family services across Google with upwards to 5 family unit members.

Important: The 5 family members includes family unit members who have been invited to join your family but have non withal accustomed their invite.

How family groups work

When you join a family group, you can:

  • Employ the family payment method: Your family managing director must set upwardly a family payment method before you can use it for purchases on Google Play
  • Use family unit services: Use or subscribe to family unit services like Google One, Google Play Family Library, or YouTube Premium family plan. Children under 13 (or applicative historic period in their land) will have limited access to some YouTube features. To discover services available for your family, go to yard.co/YourFamily

Join a family group

If someone invited you to join their family, you'll become an e-mail or text message with your invitation. Follow the instructions on the invitation to join the family unit group.

What information family unit members see near ane another

When yous join a family unit, your family members may meet your name, photograph, and email address.

Considering your family managing director is responsible for the family unit payment method, they'll get receipts for anything yous purchased using the family unit payment method.

Your family unit members will be able to come across content added to your Family Library.

If your family shares a Google I membership, your family unit members will exist able to come across how much shared storage you've used. Your files aren't shared with your family.

Requirements for joining a family

To join a family group, you must:

  • Accept a Google Business relationship. You lot tin't join a family with a Google Account from your work, school, or other organization.
  • Live in the same country as the family manager.
  • Not exist part of another family group.
  • Non have switched family groups in the last 12 months.

Leave or switch family groups

Earlier you tin can switch family groups, y'all demand to go out the one y'all're currently in.

What happens when you exit your family grouping

  • You can only switch families every 12 months. If you leave a family group and join a new one, y'all won't exist able to join some other family group for 12 months.
  • You won't be able to make purchases using the family unit payment method. Any awaiting purchases might nonetheless be charged.
  • You'll lose admission to Google Play Family Library, and any items added by family members.
  • Any purchases yous added to Google Play Family Library will exist removed, and your family members will lose admission to them.
  • If your family shares a Google One membership and you are the Google One plan director, your family unit members will stop using your shared storage. If someone runs out of storage, their files will stay safe only they won't be able to store new things. Acquire more virtually what happens when people run out of space.
    • Your family will also lose access to actress member benefits and Google experts.
  • If your family shares a Google I membership and someone else is the Google Ane plan manager, yous volition lose access to their shared storage, extra member benefits, and Google experts.
  • Yous'll keep your Google Account, and whatever content yous purchased using the family unit payment method.

Go out your family grouping

Important: If you're a family director, y'all tin can't leave your family grouping.

Mobile or web browser

Important: If you've prepare upwards your family on dissimilar Google products (Play store, Family unit Link, Google One), you can too leave your family unit within those products past following the instructions below.

Play Store app

Family Link app

Annotation: Family unit Link is only available in certain areas. To get Family unit Link, sign up at chiliad.co/YourFamily.

Google app​

  1. Open the Google One app Google One.
  2. At the top, tap Settings.
  3. Tap Manage family unit settings and then Manage family group.
  4. In the top correct, tap More More and then Leave family and then Fiftyeave group.
  5. Blazon your password, then tap Confirm.

Troubleshoot bug

Problem with my invitation

Invitation was already used

Each invitation has a unique sign-up link that can only be used once.

If y'all forward your invitation to someone else, they can use your unique link to join the family grouping.

If you used your invitation with some other Google Business relationship, yous can go out the family grouping and ask for another invitation to use with your other email address.

Invitation expired

Invitations to bring together a family elapse in two weeks.

If your invitation expired, contact the family director and ask them to send you a new invitation.

I got an fault

Problem joining family group

  • Switching families: You tin can merely switch families once every 12 months.
  • Country restriction: You demand to alive in the same country every bit your family unit managing director.

Your family group is disabled

Your family director needs to visit myaccount.google.comto restore their account.

You're already in a family group

You lot can but be in one family group at a time. If you lot want to join a different family group, y'all due northeed to leave your current family grouping, then join the new one.

My family unit manager deleted our family group

If your family manager deletes your family unit group:

  • You won't be able to make purchases using the family payment method. Any awaiting purchases might still exist charged.
  • Y'all'll lose access to Google Play Family Library and any items added by family members.
  • Whatever purchases you added to Google Play Family Library wi ll be removed, and your family members will lose admission to them.
  • If your family unit shares a Google 1 membership and you lot are the Google One plan managing director, your family unit members volition stop using your shared storage. If someone runs out of storage, their files will stay rubber but they won't be able to store new things. Larn more about what happens when people run out of space.
    • Your family will also lose admission to extra member benefits and Google experts.
  • If your family shares a Google 1 membership and someone else is the Google One plan manager, y'all will lose access to their shared storage, extra fellow member benefits, and Google experts.
  • You lot'll go along your Google Business relationship and whatsoever content yous purchased using the family payment method.

Annotation: You can only alter family groups once per year. If you join or create a new family group, you won't be able to bring together some other one for 12 months.

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