Add a parent to your family group

If you're the family manager, you can add a parent to your family group.

Add or remove a parent

Add or remove a parent

To add someone as a parent to your family group, they need to be 18 or older and be in your family group.

Play Store app

1. Open the Google Play Store app .
2. At the top right, tap the profile icon.
3. Tap Settings  Family  Manage family members.
4. Tap Invite family members.
5. Tap Send.
   • An email notification is sent when someone joins your family.

Family Link app

1. Open the Family Link app .
2. In the top left, tap Menu Manage Family.
3. Choose someone to add or remove as a parent.
4. Tap Remove or Add parent privileges Confirm.

Google One app

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google One app .
2. Tap Menu Settings.
3. Tap Manage family settings Manage family group.
4. Tap Manage parent privileges.
5. Choose someone to add or remove as a parent.
6. Tap Remove.

Remove yourself as a parent

If the family manager added you as a parent, you can remove your parent privileges.

Play Store app

1. Open the Play Store app .
2. At the top right, tap the profile icon.
3. Tap Manage your Google Account  People & sharing Manage your family group.
4. Choose the parent whose privileges you want to remove.
5. Tap Remove parental privileges.

Family Link app

1. Open the Family Link app .
2. In the top left, tap Menu  Manage Family.
3. Choose someone to remove as a parent.
4. Tap Remove parent privileges Confirm.

Parent privileges

Parents have most of the privileges the family manager has, which include these privileges:

• Use Family link to manage a child’s Google Account. This includes settings that manage Google activity, screen time, and location.
• Approve Google Play purchases or downloads made with the family payment method if purchase approvals are on.
• View family member purchases made with the family payment method.
• Change family members' purchase approval settings on Google Play.
  • Purchase approval settings apply only to purchases made through Google Play's billing system.

Only the family manager can:

• Add or remove family members
• Add or remove a second parent
• Delete the family group
• Subscribe to family services like the Google Play Music family plan
• Add or edit the family payment method
• Create, delete, or recover a deleted Google Account for a child under 13 or the applicable age in your country
• Add supervision to a child’s existing Google Account
• Provide consent and add supervision to your child’s Google Account

Adults in your family can subscribe to Google One. The Google One plan manager doesn't need to be the same person as the family manager. Learn how to add family members to your Google One membership plan.