You can select up to five people to share your YouTube Premium Family membership with.
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Key Takeaways
Add up to five additional members to your YouTube Premium family plan by following a few simple steps.
Only the family manager can remove members from the plan by accessing the membership settings.
Keep in mind that all members must be at least 13 years old and live in the same household as the family manager.
If you’ve signed up for a YouTube Premium family membership, you’ll likely know that you can add up to five extra members. But how do you go about adding and removing members from your family plan? Here’s what you need to know.
How to Add Members to Your YouTube Premium Family Plan
The family plan allows you to add five people from your household—not including yourself—to your membership.
Follow these steps to create your YouTube family group:
Once your family membership is active, click on your YouTube profile icon and select Purchases and memberships from the dropdown menu.
Next, click on Manage membership and then Edit next to Family sharing settings.
YouTube Premium family membership sharing settings
Click on Send invitations at the top of the new page under the family manager’s name.
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Now type in the names or email addresses of the members you’d like to add. You can add a single member or multiple members at a time.
youtube premium family plan invite your family screen
When you’re done, click send and an invitation will be sent to each member. If you are the one being invited to join, all you have to do is click Accept invitation in the email.
If you go back to your family sharing page, you’ll now be able to see which members have accepted your invite, which invites are still pending, and how many invites you have remaining.
To cancel a member’s invite that is still pending, simply click on their profile and hit Cancel invitation.
youtube premium family membership cancel invitation
How to Remove Members From Your YouTube Premium Family Plan
Only the family manager of the YouTube Premium family membership can remove members. Here’s how.
When your family membership is active, click on your YouTube profile icon and select Purchases and memberships from the dropdown menu.
Click on Manage membership and then Edit next to Family sharing settings.
YouTube Premium family membership sharing settings
Now find the member you’d like to remove and click on their profile.
The last step is to simply click the Remove member button. The member will receive an email notifying them that they are no longer a part of the family group.
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Members who want to remove themselves can do so easily by following the same steps, clicking on their own profile, and selecting Leave family group.
youtube premium family plan leave family group
The same process of adding and removing members applies if you are using the YouTube app on your smartphone. The only difference is that you’ll find Purchases and memberships in your settings. Plus, you have the option to send member invitations via phone number.
YouTube mobile app purchases and subscriptions
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Important Factors to Keep in Mind About Your YouTube Premium Family Plan
In order to add a member to the family group, you have to make sure they are at least 13 years of age or older.
If you’d like to add someone younger than 13, then the family manager can create a Google account for them, and they’ll be added to the family group as a supervised member.
That way, you can let your kids access YouTube with a supervised Google account. It’s also important to note that without their own separate Google account, members cannot join the family group.
In addition, YouTube has a rule that all members must live in the same household as the family manager. However, you do not have to be an actual relative to join.
A couple of other things you can share within your family group include Google Family Calendar, Google Assistance, Family Link, YouTube TV, and access to YouTube Music Premium.
Share YouTube Premium With Your Whole Family
If your household loves using YouTube and YouTube Music, but they’d like to enjoy the benefits of a YouTube Premium subscription, then it is time to sign up for a YouTube Premium family plan. The best part is that once the family manager has signed up, adding and removing members is super simple.
Make sure to follow these straightforward steps, so the other members of your household can start experiencing and enjoying YouTube Premium.
