Use Google Play Family Library

You can share purchased apps, games, movies, Boob tube shows, and eastward-books and audiobooks from Google Play with up to 5 family members using Google Play Family Library.

Sign upwardly for Family Library

Note: Anybody in your family needs to follow the instructions to a higher place to set up up Family Library.

Requirements

Family unit manager requirements

If you are not part of a family already, yous'll become the family unit manager when y'all sign up for Family Library. Family managers must run into all these requirements:

  • Be eighteen or older (or the appropriate historic period in your country)
  • Have a valid credit bill of fare or debit carte du jour to utilise equally the family payment method
  • Not exist office of another family grouping on Google

Note: You tin't create a family with a Google Account from your work, school, or other organization.

Family unit fellow member requirements

To join a family unit group, yous must meet these requirements:

  • Have a Google Account. If yous're under 13 or the applicable historic period in your country, your family director needs to create a Google Business relationship for you.
  • Live in the same country as the family director.
  • Not exist part of another family unit group on Google.

Countries

Family unit Library is bachelor in most countries that you lot can use Google Play.

Add or remove Family Library purchases

Eligible purchases tin be automatically added to the Family Library, or you can add them yourself afterward y'all buy them. Apps & games, Movies & Television set shows, and Books sharing with Family unit Library may exist express in some countries.

When you remove purchases from Family Library or get out your family group, your family unit members lose access to the purchases you added to Family Library.

Important: To avoid potential issues with adding content to Family Library, make sure to use the family payment method instead of your personal credit or debit menu to purchase movies or TV shows.

Add or remove individual purchases

Apps & games

To remove the content, plough off Family Library.

Movies & TV shows

  1. Open up the Play Movies & Telly app Play Movies.
  2. At the bottom, tap Library.
  3. Under the "Movies" or "TV shows" tab, look for purchased content you desire to add together.
  4. On the content's details page, turn on Family unit Library.

To remove the content, turn off Family Library.

Annotation: When you lot add Television shows from the Play Movies & TV app, you're adding all episodes of the show. If you want to add or remove certain seasons or episodes that were purchased separately, search for the content in the Play Store app and add information technology to Family unit Library from the episode or show's details page.

Books

  1. Open up the Play Books app Play Books.
  2. At the bottom, tap Library.
  3. Expect for the e-books or audiobooks you want to add together.
  4. Side by side to the book championship, tap More than More and then Add to Family unit Library.

To remove the content, tap More than More and then Remove from Family Library.

Change your Family unit Library settings

Past default, eligible purchases are automatically added to your Family Library after y'all create or bring together a family unit grouping.

To modify the Family unit Library settings, or remove all purchase of a certain type:

Restrict content for sure family unit members

Anybody in your family grouping tin can see all the content that'south been added to Family Library.

You tin ready parental controls to restrict the content family unit members can see.

Meet Family unit Library content

Apps & games

Movies & Boob tube shows

  1. Open the Google Play Movies & TV app Play Movies.
  2. At the lesser, tap Library.
  3. Tap the Movies or Tv set Shows tab.
  4. Scroll down to the "Family Library" list. If you don't see a "Family Library" list, your family members haven't added anything to your Family unit Library yet.

Note: Movies can be played offline on up to 5 devices per family member and 12 devices per family. six movies tin be played at once, but each motion picture can merely be streamed by one person at a time.

Books

  1. Open the Google Play Books app Play Books.
  2. At the bottom, tap Library.
  3. Tap the Family tab. If you don't see a "Family" tab, it ways your family members haven't added whatever books to your Family unit Library yet.

Note: Each volume tin be downloaded on up to 6 devices at the aforementioned time. When someone removes a book from their device, it becomes available for other family members to download.

Run across if content is eligible to be added to Family Library

Near purchased apps, games, movies, TV shows, and books can be added to your Family unit Library. If an particular is eligible to be added, you'll encounter the Family Library icon on the content's details page Family Library.

Movies & Television shows

Whatsoever movies or TV shows you purchased earlier your Family Library was created can exist added to Family Library.

After you sign up for Family Library or join someone's family unit grouping, new movie and Telly bear witness purchases can only be added if you purchase them with the family unit payment method, a Google Play gift bill of fare, or a promo code.

Movies

  • Movies sharing with Family Library may be limited in some countries.
  • If you buy a bundle of movies, you can only add together or remove an unabridged bundle from your Family Library, only not individual movies.
  • Y'all can't add Play moving-picture show rentals or movies purchased on YouTube to Family Library.

Goggle box shows

  • Tv set shows sharing with Family unit Library may be express in some countries.
  • You can't add Boob tube evidence rentals to Family unit Library.
  • You tin can't add Goggle box shows purchased in YouTube.
  • Tv set shows aren't available in all countries.

Apps & games

  • Apps & games sharing with Family Library may be limited in some countries.
  • Yous can't share in-app purchases and apps downloaded at no accuse with your family unit members.
  • Whatever apps or games purchased later July two, 2022 are eligible to be added to Family Library. If you purchased the app or game before July 2, 2016, it's eligible for Family Library if the developer has fabricated past purchases bachelor. You can detect out whether this is the instance by tapping Read More on the app's details page.

Books

  • If the book publisher allows for e-books or audiobooks to be added to Family Library, you can share it with your family members.
  • You can't add samples provided at no charge, public domain books, personal documents y'all uploaded, or books you lot rented to Family unit Library.
  • Books can only be added to Family Library in certain countries.

Music & Newsstand

Music and Newsstand purchases can't be added to Family unit Library.

Troubleshoot issues

I got an error when creating my family

Content was removed from Family unit Library

If someone removes content from the Family Library, if they go out the family group entirely, or if your family group is deleted, yous have to purchase the content in order to use it.

Once you purchase it, you'll pick up where y'all left off. If y'all bought in-app purchases in a game, you'll get those dorsum afterwards yous purchase the game.

I purchased content, merely I can't add it to Family Library

If you tin't add content you bought to Family Library, information technology might be considering:

  • The content isn't eligible to be added to Family Library.
  • Y'all used your personal credit or debit card instead of the family payment method to purchase the pic or TV show.

"Your family payment method is invalid"

If you come across this message, your family payment method is invalid. If you lot're the family manager, update your family payment method to a valid credit card then that y'all and your family members can add purchases to Family Library.

While the family payment method is invalid, purchases fabricated using other forms of payment won't be automatically added to Family Library. Later your family payment method is updated, you'll need to manually add those items to Family Library from the details page.

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