Use Google Play Family unit Library

You tin can share purchased apps, games, movies, Television set shows, and e-books and audiobooks from Google Play with up to v family unit members using Google Play Family Library.

Sign up for Family Library

Note: Anybody in your family unit needs to follow the instructions above to set Family Library.

Requirements

Family managing director requirements

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

  • Be 18 or older (or the appropriate age in your land)
  • Have a valid credit card or debit menu to employ as the family payment method
  • Not be part of another family unit group on Google

Notation: You tin can't create a family with a Google Business relationship from your work, school, or other arrangement.

Family unit fellow member requirements

To join a family unit grouping, yous must encounter these requirements:

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

Countries

Family Library is available in near countries that you tin can utilize Google Play.

Add together or remove Family Library purchases

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

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

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

Add or remove individual purchases

Apps & games

To remove the content, plow off Family Library.

Movies & TV shows

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

To remove the content, turn off Family Library.

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

Books

  1. Open the Play Books app Play Books.
  2. At the lesser, tap Library.
  3. Await for the eastward-books or audiobooks you desire to add together.
  4. Next to the volume title, tap More than More and then Add together to Family Library.

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

Change your Family Library settings

By default, eligible purchases are automatically added to your Family Library later you create or bring together a family group.

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

Restrict content for certain family members

Everyone in your family group can run across all the content that's been added to Family Library.

Y'all can gear up parental controls to restrict the content family unit members can see.

Run across Family unit Library content

Apps & games

Movies & TV shows

  1. Open the Google Play Movies & Tv app Play Movies.
  2. At the bottom, tap Library.
  3. Tap the Movies or Boob tube Shows tab.
  4. Scroll downwards to the "Family unit Library" listing. If you lot don't meet a "Family unit Library" list, your family members oasis't added anything to your Family Library withal.

Note: Movies tin be played offline on up to five devices per family unit fellow member and 12 devices per family. 6 movies can be played at once, but each movie 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 means your family members haven't added any books to your Family Library yet.

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

Encounter if content is eligible to be added to Family Library

Virtually purchased apps, games, movies, TV shows, and books tin can be added to your Family unit Library. If an particular is eligible to exist added, you'll see the Family Library icon on the content'due south details page Family Library.

Movies & TV shows

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

After yous sign upwardly for Family unit Library or join someone's family group, new movie and TV show purchases tin can just be added if you purchase them with the family payment method, a Google Play gift card, or a promo code.

Movies

  • Movies sharing with Family unit Library may be limited in some countries.
  • If yous buy a bundle of movies, you can just add together or remove an entire bundle from your Family Library, but not individual movies.
  • You can't add together Play movie rentals or movies purchased on YouTube to Family Library.

Goggle box shows

  • TV shows sharing with Family Library may be limited in some countries.
  • Yous tin't add TV show rentals to Family unit Library.
  • You can't add TV shows purchased in YouTube.
  • TV shows aren't available in all countries.

Apps & games

  • Apps & games sharing with Family Library may exist express in some countries.
  • Yous tin't share in-app purchases and apps downloaded at no charge with your family members.
  • Any 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 Library if the developer has made past purchases available. You can find out whether this is the case by borer Read More on the app's details folio.

Books

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

Music & Newsstand

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

Troubleshoot issues

I got an fault when creating my family

Content was removed from Family unit Library

If someone removes content from the Family Library, if they leave the family group entirely, or if your family group is deleted, you have to purchase the content in lodge to use information technology.

Once you purchase it, you lot'll pick up where you left off. If you bought in-app purchases in a game, you'll get those back after you lot purchase the game.

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

If y'all can't add content you bought to Family Library, it might exist considering:

  • The content isn't eligible to be added to Family Library.
  • Yous used your personal credit or debit card instead of the family unit payment method to purchase the movie or Tv set show.

"Your family unit payment method is invalid"

If yous run across this message, your family payment method is invalid. If yous're the family managing director, update your family payment method to a valid credit bill of fare then that y'all and your family unit 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 payment method is updated, y'all'll need to manually add those items to Family unit Library from the details page.

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