Shared YouTube Television receiver memberships & family groups

Create a family unit group to share YouTube TV – as well as other Google apps and services – with upward to 5 other people.

How family unit groups work on YouTube Television

  • If you've purchased a YouTube TV membership, you tin create a family group to share your membership with upwardly to five people at no additional toll. When y'all create a family grouping, you become the family unit manager.
  • Every bit the family manager, you lot can invite family members (13 or older) to join your family group.
  • As a family unit group member, yous can build your own personal library of content in YouTube TV. Your viewing preferences and DVR are all your own – we won't share your library or watch history with your family unit grouping.
  • Sharing YouTube TV every bit part of a family group also lets you share other Google services with the aforementioned people. Larn more almost family groups on Google.

Create a family group

Sign upward & create a family group

As the family manager, y'all're the only person who can buy and make membership decisions in YouTube TV. You'll besides set the home location, and can invite or remove family unit members from your family group.

To sign up and create a family group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Tv set.
  2. Select your contour photograph > Settings Settings > Family unit sharing Family Sharing .
  3. SelectReady.
  4. Create a Google family unit group.
  5. Agree to the YouTube Paid Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy.
  6. Select Cancel or Adjacent.
  7. Your family members volition receive an email invitation to join the group, and can apply their Google accounts to log in.

Family group requirements

Family manager requirements
To sign up for a family group, y'all must:

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

Note: Only the family director tin can make membership decisions in YouTube TV, such equally cancelling your membership.

Family member requirements
To join a family group, you must:

  • Be age xiii or older and have a Google business relationship
  • Live in the same household every bit the family manager
  • Live in the aforementioned country as the family managing director
  • Not be part of another family grouping

What info family members can see

When you bring together a family unit, your family members may see your proper noun, photo and email accost.

Manage a family group

Add together family unit members

If y'all're the family director, you can invite up to five people to join your family group. New family members must be xiii or older, have a Google account and live in the same household as you lot. If someone leaves your family unit group or your invitation expires, you tin can send additional invitations. If yous have any awaiting invitations, y'all can cancel them to invite someone else.

To add family unit members:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile photo > SettingsSettings > Family unit sharing Family Sharing.
  3. SelectReady up.
  4. Type the email address or phone number of the person who you want to invite.
  5. Select Send. Y'all'll receive an email notification when someone joins your family.

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

Remove family members

If you lot're the family director, y'all can remove people from your family group at any time.

When you remove someone from your family group:

  • The person who you've removed will withal keep their Google account.
  • The person who you've removed will receive an email notification letting them know that they've been removed. Other family grouping members will too be notified.
  • The person who you've removed volition lose access to YouTube Television receiver.

To remove someone from your family unit group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile photo > SettingsSettings > Family sharing Family Sharing .
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Click the X side by side to the family group member who y'all desire to remove.

Delete a family grouping

To delete a family grouping:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your contour photo > Settings Settings > Family sharing Family Sharing.
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Select Delete your family group.
  5. Enter your countersign, and so select Ostend.

Note: If you delete your family group, you'll just exist able to create or bring together another family group ane more than time in the next 12 months.

Join or leave a family group

Join a family group

If the family director with a YouTube Television set membership has invited you to join the family group, you lot'll receive an e-mail invitation. Follow the instructions in the invitation to join the family group.

The pocket-size impress:

  • To join a family group, you must be 13 or older and have a Google account.
  • You can admission your own library, recordings and personalised recommendations. Your viewing preferences are all your own – we won't share your library or watch history across accounts.
  • Y'all can only be part of one family unit group at a time. If you're invited to a dissimilar family group (for YouTube Television or another Google production), you'll accept to leave your family group to modify families.
  • Google Apps for Business organization (M Suite) accounts are not eligible for family unit groups.

Leave a family grouping

When you go out a family unit group, you'll continue your Google account just will lose access to YouTube Idiot box. Your preferences will exist saved in case you lot rejoin at a later date.

To leave your family grouping:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile photograph >Settings Settings > Family unit sharing Family Sharing.
  3. Next to 'Family sharing', select Manage.
  4. Select Get out your family group.
  5. Enter your password, then select Ostend. Your family manager will receive an email notification that yous've left the family grouping.

Note: If you get out your family group, you can accept an invitation to bring together a different family group or create your ain group. Notwithstanding, you can only switch families once every 12 months. If you leave a family group and bring together a new one, y'all won't be able to join another family unit group 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 all family members must primarily live in the aforementioned household.

All family group members must periodically use YouTube TV in your home location to maintain access. If you don't, the family manager will either have to change the family'south home location or you'll demand to go your own private membership.

Note: If y'all're using YouTube Goggle box while travelling, you'll get access to sure programmes based on your location. Acquire more about using YouTube Television set while travelling.

Simultaneous streaming

Family group members can use YouTube TV on up to three divide devices at the same time. Notation that if 1 family unit fellow member is watching YouTube Goggle box on both a computer and a mobile device, this counts equally two of the iii available devices – even though they're being used by the same account.

If you lot're a family member and your family cancels their YouTube TV membership, you can sign upwardly for an individual membership. To do this, get out your family unit group and then sign upwardly for YouTube Television receiver with your ain Google account.

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