Shared YouTube TV memberships & family groups

Create a family unit group to share YouTube Telly – besides equally other Google apps and services – with upward to 5 other people.

How family unit groups piece of work on YouTube TV

  • If y'all've purchased a YouTube Television receiver membership, yous can create a family group to share your membership with up to v people at no additional cost. When you create a family group, you lot become the family manager.
  • Equally the family managing director, you tin invite family members (thirteen or older) to join your family unit grouping.
  • Every bit a family group member, you lot can build your own personal library of content in YouTube TV. Your viewing preferences and DVR are all your ain – we won't share your library or watch history with your family group.
  • Sharing YouTube Television set equally part of a family group also lets yous share other Google services with the same people. Learn more virtually family groups on Google.

Create a family group

Sign up & create a family grouping

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

To sign up and create a family unit group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your contour photo > Settings Settings > Family sharing Family Sharing .
  3. SelectSet up.
  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 receive an email invitation to bring together the group, and can utilize their Google accounts to log in.

Family grouping requirements

Family director requirements
To sign up for a family grouping, you lot must:

  • Be 18 or older and take a Google account
  • Alive in the U.s.​
  • Non be function of another family group
  • Not be signing up with a G Suite account

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

Family fellow member requirements
To join a family group, yous must:

  • Exist historic period thirteen or older and have a Google account
  • Live in the aforementioned household as the family unit manager
  • Live in the same country as the family manager
  • Not be part of another family group

What info family members can run into

When you lot join a family, your family members may see your proper name, photo and e-mail accost.

Manage a family group

Add family unit members

If yous're the family manager, you can invite up to five people to bring together your family unit group. New family members must exist 13 or older, have a Google account and live in the same household as you. If someone leaves your family grouping or your invitation expires, you lot tin can send boosted invitations. If you accept any pending invitations, you lot can cancel them to invite someone else.

To add family members:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Idiot box.
  2. Select your profile photo > SettingsSettings > Family sharing Family Sharing.
  3. SelectFix.
  4. Type the email address or phone number of the person who you lot want to invite.
  5. Select Send. You'll receive an e-mail notification when someone joins your family.

Note: The family unit members who yous invite volition meet your proper name, photo and email address.

Remove family members

If you're the family unit manager, you tin remove people from your family group at any time.

When you remove someone from your family group:

  • The person who y'all've removed will still keep their Google business relationship.
  • The person who yous've removed will receive an electronic mail notification letting them know that they've been removed. Other family grouping members volition also be notified.
  • The person who you lot've removed volition lose admission to YouTube Television.

To remove someone from your family group:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile photo > SettingsSettings > Family unit sharing Family Sharing .
  3. Select Manage.
  4. Click the X side by side to the family unit group fellow member who you want to remove.

Delete a family unit grouping

To delete a family group:

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

Note: If yous delete your family unit group, you'll only be able to create or bring together another family group one more than fourth dimension in the next 12 months.

Bring together or leave a family group

Join a family unit group

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

The small print:

  • To join a family group, y'all must exist 13 or older and accept a Google business relationship.
  • Yous can access your own library, recordings and personalised recommendations. Your viewing preferences are all your own – we won't share your library or spotter history beyond accounts.
  • You can just be office of one family group at a time. If yous're invited to a different family group (for YouTube Boob tube or another Google product), you'll have to get out your family unit group to alter families.
  • Google Apps for Concern (G Suite) accounts are not eligible for family unit groups.

Leave a family group

When you lot leave a family grouping, you'll go along your Google account but volition lose access to YouTube Idiot box. Your preferences will be saved in case you rejoin at a later date.

To leave your family unit grouping:

  1. Sign in to YouTube TV.
  2. Select your profile photo >Settings Settings > Family unit sharing Family Sharing.
  3. Next to 'Family sharing', select Manage.
  4. Select Get out your family grouping.
  5. Enter your password, then select Confirm. Your family manager volition receive an electronic mail notification that you've left the family unit group.

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

Locations & simultaneous streaming

Location requirements

Location requirements work the same if you're sharing your YouTube Telly membership with a family group. The family manager sets the home area, and all family unit members must primarily alive in the same household.

All family group members must periodically use YouTube Television in your home location to maintain access. If you don't, the family manager will either take to change the family'due south home location or you lot'll need to get your ain individual membership.

Notation: If you're using YouTube Telly while travelling, you'll go access to certain programmes based on your location. Learn more almost using YouTube TV while travelling.

Simultaneous streaming

Family group members can use YouTube TV on up to three split up devices at the aforementioned time. Note that if ane family member is watching YouTube Tv set on both a estimator and a mobile device, this counts as two of the three available devices – fifty-fifty though they're existence used past the same account.

If yous're a family member and your family cancels their YouTube TV membership, you can sign up for an private membership. To do this, get out your family group and then sign up for YouTube TV with your own Google account.

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