Use Google Play Family Library

You lot tin can share purchased apps, games, movies, Goggle box shows, and due east-books and audiobooks from Google Play with up to v family members using Google Play Family Library.

Sign upwards for Family unit Library

Annotation: Everyone in your family unit needs to follow the instructions to a higher place to gear up Family unit Library.

Requirements

Family manager requirements

If y'all are non part of a family already, you'll get the family manager when yous sign up for Family Library. Family managers must meet all these requirements:

  • Be xviii or older (or the appropriate age in your country)
  • Have a valid credit card or debit card to utilize equally the family payment method
  • Not be part of another family unit group on Google

Annotation: You can't create a family with a Google Account from your work, school, or other arrangement.

Family fellow member requirements

To join a family grouping, you must run into these requirements:

  • Have a Google Account. If you're under 13 or the applicable age in your country, your family unit manager needs to create a Google Account for you.
  • Alive in the same land as the family unit managing director.
  • Not exist part of another family unit group on Google.

Countries

Family Library is available in most countries that y'all tin can use Google Play.

Add or remove Family Library purchases

Eligible purchases can exist automatically added to the Family Library, or you can add them yourself afterwards you lot buy them. Apps & games, Movies & Tv set shows, and Books sharing with Family Library may be limited in some countries.

When you remove purchases from Family unit Library or leave your family unit group, your family members lose admission to the purchases you added to Family Library.

Important: To avert potential bug with adding content to Family Library, brand sure to use the family payment method instead of your personal credit or debit card to purchase movies or TV shows.

Add or remove individual purchases

Apps & games

To remove the content, turn off Family unit Library.

Movies & TV shows

  1. Open the Play Movies & Goggle box app Play Movies.
  2. At the bottom, tap Library.
  3. Under the "Movies" or "Tv shows" tab, expect for purchased content y'all want to add.
  4. On the content'south details folio, turn on Family Library.

To remove the content, turn off Family Library.

Note: When you add together TV shows from the Play Movies & Goggle box app, y'all're adding all episodes of the show. If yous want to add or remove certain seasons or episodes that were purchased separately, search for the content in the Play Store app and add it to Family Library from the episode or evidence's details page.

Books

  1. Open the Play Books app Play Books.
  2. At the lesser, tap Library.
  3. Await for the due east-books or audiobooks you want to add.
  4. Side by side to the book title, tap More More and then Add to Family unit Library.

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

Change your Family unit Library settings

By default, eligible purchases are automatically added to your Family Library after you create or join a family group.

To modify the Family Library settings, or remove all buy of a sure type:

Restrict content for sure family members

Everyone in your family grouping tin can meet all the content that's been added to Family Library.

You can prepare upward parental controls to restrict the content family members can see.

Come across Family Library content

Apps & games

Movies & TV shows

  1. Open the Google Play Movies & Telly app Play Movies.
  2. At the bottom, tap Library.
  3. Tap the Movies or TV Shows tab.
  4. Scroll down to the "Family Library" listing. If you don't run across a "Family Library" listing, your family members oasis't added annihilation to your Family Library withal.

Note: Movies can be played offline on up to 5 devices per family unit member and 12 devices per family unit. 6 movies can be played at in one case, merely each movie can only be streamed by ane person at a fourth dimension.

Books

  1. Open up the Google Play Books app Play Books.
  2. At the bottom, tap Library.
  3. Tap the Family tab. If you don't run into a "Family" tab, information technology means your family members haven't added any books to your Family unit Library yet.

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

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

Most purchased apps, games, movies, Boob tube shows, and books can be added to your Family Library. If an item is eligible to be added, you'll run across the Family Library icon on the content's details folio Family Library.

Movies & Tv set shows

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

After you sign up for Family Library or join someone'due south family unit grouping, new movie and TV show purchases can only be added if you purchase them with the family 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 purchase a package of movies, you lot can simply add or remove an entire bundle from your Family Library, but not individual movies.
  • Yous can't add Play movie rentals or movies purchased on YouTube to Family Library.

TV shows

  • TV shows sharing with Family Library may be express in some countries.
  • You can't add TV show rentals to Family Library.
  • You can't add Idiot box shows purchased in YouTube.
  • TV shows aren't available in all countries.

Apps & games

  • Apps & games sharing with Family unit Library may exist express in some countries.
  • You can't share in-app purchases and apps downloaded at no charge with your family members.
  • Whatever apps or games purchased after July 2, 2016 are eligible to be added to Family Library. If you purchased the app or game before July 2, 2016, it's eligible for Family unit Library if the developer has made past purchases available. You lot can discover out whether this is the instance by tapping Read More on the app'due south details folio.

Books

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

Music & Newsstand

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

Troubleshoot problems

I got an error when creating my family

Content was removed from Family Library

If someone removes content from the Family Library, if they leave the family group entirely, or if your family group is deleted, yous accept to purchase the content in club to use it.

Once you purchase information technology, you'll option upward where you left off. If y'all bought in-app purchases in a game, you lot'll get those dorsum after you lot buy the game.

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

If you can't add content you bought to Family Library, it might be because:

  • The content isn't eligible to exist added to Family Library.
  • Yous used your personal credit or debit menu instead of the family payment method to purchase the motion-picture show or Telly testify.

"Your family payment method is invalid"

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

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

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