Create & manage your family with Google Assistant

Important: A family group is different from a Google Dwelling group, which helps you manage your dwelling house and devices in the Google Home app. You can add someone every bit both a family member and a home fellow member. Learn how to share a home and devices in the Google Home app.

What you need

To create and manage a family grouping with a speaker or Smart Display:

  • Go the Google Assistant app.
  • Set up Voice Match.

Create a family grouping

You can create a family from your speaker, Smart Display, or mobile device with Google Assistant.

  1. Say, "Hey Google, set up my family."
    • If you ask on a speaker, y'all go a notification from Google Assistant on your mobile device. Tap that notification.
  2. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Tip: If y'all become an error when you create a family, learn how to fix it.

Find & manage your family unit members

Y'all can manage your family members from your speaker, Smart Brandish, or mobile device with Google Assistant.

Check who's in your family unit

With a speaker or Smart Display

  1. Say "Hey Google, who's in my family?"
  2. When yous inquire on a speaker, you become a notification from Google Banana on your mobile device. Tap that notification.

In the Google Assistant app

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, say "Hey Google, open Assistant settings."
  2. Tap Y'all and then Your people.
    • If someone is in your family unit on Google, below their name, you'll find "Family unit group."

Add together family members

Remove family unit members

With a speaker or Smart Display

  1. Say "Hey Google, remove a family member."
  2. On your Android phone or tablet, you get a notification from Google Banana. Tap that notification.
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions.

In the Google Assistant app

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, say "Hey Google, open up Assistant settings."
  2. Tap You and then Your people.
  3. Tap the proper noun of the family unit member you want to remove.
  4. Turn off Family group.
  5. At the bottom right, tap Save.
  6. Follow the on-screen instructions.

What happens when you remove someone from your family group

  • The person you remove from your family unit group:
    • Keeps their Google Account and any content on their device purchased with the family payment method.
    • Tin't make new purchases with the family payment method, or access any services your family unit group shares.
    • Gets an email alert when they're removed.
    • Loses access to anything in your Family Library.
    • Loses access to your shared storage if your family shares a Google One membership.
      • If they're out of storage, their files stay safe but they can't store new things. Acquire what happens when they run out of space.
    • Loses access to actress fellow member benefits and Google experts.
  • If the person you remove:
    • Made a purchase with the family payment method and it'due south already in process: Yous'll still be charged, just you can request a refund for unwanted or accidental purchases.
    • Added content to the Family Library: If y'all fix Google Play Family unit Library, whatever content they added is removed and other family members lose admission to that content.
    • Is 13 (or the applicative age in your country) or older, and yous and your kid choose to manage their account with Family unit Link: Their Google Account and whatsoever devices are no longer supervised when you remove them from the family group.

Remove supervised children

Delete your family group

Delete your family grouping

What happens when you delete your family grouping

  • Anybody from your family unit group keeps their Google Accounts and any content on their device they purchased with the family payment method.
  • If your family members fabricated a purchase with the family payment method and it's already in process, yous'll still be charged, only you tin can request a refund for unwanted or accidental purchases.
  • If you set up Google Play Family Library, everyone from your family unit grouping loses admission to the Family Library content that other family members added.
  • If you subscribed to a family plan like YouTube Music or Google One, your family loses access to that service.
  • If your family shares a Google 1 membership, your family loses admission to the shared storage.
    • If your family members run out of storage, their files stay prophylactic simply they can't shop new things. Learn what happens when they run out of space.
    • Everyone from your family loses access to extra fellow member benefits and Google experts.
  • If a family member is 13 (or the applicable age in your country) or older, and y'all choose to manage their account with Family Link, their Google Account and any devices are no longer supervised when you lot remove them from the family unit group.
  • If y'all delete your family grouping, yous can only create or bring together some other family group once in the next 12 months.

Related resource

  • Learn more in the Google for families Assist Center
  • Create a family unit on Google

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