Google Play Music family plan

When you lot subscribe to the Google Play Music family plan, you lot and upwardly to 5 family members tin stream millions of songs for a monthly fee.

Annotation: if yous are currently subscribed to an individual Google Play Music plan that includes YouTube Premium, upgrading to a Google Play Music family unit program will crusade you to lose access to YouTube Premium. Yous will nonetheless get YouTube Music Premium included in your Google Play Music family program.

If you lot'd similar to maintain your YouTube Premium benefits, and have a family plan, cancel your Google Play Music subscription and sign upward for a YouTube Premium family program - which also includes admission to YouTube Music Premium and Google Play Music.

How the family plan works

With the family program, everyone in your family group shares a Google Play Music subscription and can:

  • Stream music at the same fourth dimension.
  • Utilise Google Play Music on upwards to ten devices each.
  • Share eligible purchased items on Google Play using Family Library.

Annotation: Each family fellow member notwithstanding has split up Google Accounts, playlists, libraries, and offline content.

Countries

The Google Play Music family unit programme is available in:

  • Commonwealth of australia
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Republic of chile
  • Czech Democracy
  • France
  • Germany
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Russia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Ukraine
  • United kingdom
  • United States

Note: Every family unit member must be based in the same country every bit the family director to join a family unit plan.

Requirements

Family director requirements

To sign up, you must meet all these requirements:

  • Exist 18 or older (or the appropriate historic period in your land) and have a Google Business relationship (that is not a G Suite account)
  • Have a valid credit card to use as the family unit payment method
  • Live in a country where the family music plan is available
  • Non be part of another family grouping

Family member requirements

Anyone yous invite to join your family unit must meet all these requirements:

  • Have a Google Account. If you have a family member nether 13 or the applicable historic period in your country, the family manager needs to create a Google Account for them.
  • Live in the aforementioned state as the family unit director.
  • Non be part of some other family group.

Note: Anyone y'all invite to bring together your family will encounter your proper name, photograph, and email address.

Subscribe to the family plan

Just the family unit manager can subscribe to the family unit program. If your family manager doesn't desire to subscribe, you can still buy an individual subscription.

  1. Open up the Play Music app Play Music.
  2. In the superlative left, tap Carte du jour Menuand then Settings.
  3. Tap Start trial, Upgrade to Family Plan, or Subscribe.
  4. Follow the instructions on screen to sign up for the family plan and prepare upwards Family Library.

Manage your subscription

Troubleshoot problems

I don't come across the option to subscribe or upgrade

If you don't see the selection to subscribe or upgrade to the Google Play Music family unit plan, information technology might be for i of these reasons:

  • Y'all aren't the family unit manager.
  • You don't live in one of the countries where the family plan works.
  • Y'all're using Google Play Music every bit a gift. When the souvenir expires, you'll come across the option to subscribe to the family plan.
  • Your Google Account is through your work, school, or other organization.
  • You're currently paying for YouTube Premium. To sign up, cancel your YouTube Premium membership. Subsequently your final billing engagement, you tin can sign upwardly for the Google Play Music family plan. If you want to cancel sooner, contact the states to cancel your membership immediately.

My child can't use the family unit music plan

If you're having trouble setting upward your child on your family unit music program, here are a few things to notation:

  • If you lot use Family unit Link to manage a Google Account for your child, they tin utilise your family music programme if they accept the Google Play Music app installed.
  • If they're on Android and don't encounter the app installed, you may need to unblock the app.
  • If you lot accept a family member under 13 or the applicative historic period in your country, the family unit manager needs to create a Google Business relationship for them.

Related articles

  • How Google Play Music subscriptions work
  • Change your family'south payment method
  • Subscriptions refund & cancellation policy

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