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 another parent

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

1. Go to g.co/YourFamily.
2. Select the family member you want. 
3. Select Give parental permissions or Remove parental permissions Confirm.

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 Manage parent privileges.
5. Choose someone to add or remove as a parent.
6. Tap Confirm.
   • An email notification is sent when parent privileges are changed.

Family Link app

1. Open the Family Link app .
2. At the top left, tap your child’s profile Manage Family.
3. Select 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. Family managers can’t remove themselves from a family without deleting the family.

1. Go to g.co/YourFamily.
2. Select your name.
3. Select Remove parental permissions Remove.

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 permissions.

Family Link app

1. Open the Family Link app .
2. At the top left, tap your child’s profile Manage Family.
3. Select someone to remove as a parent.
4. Tap Remove parental permissions 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.

Related resources

• Create a family on Google
• Manage your family on Google
• Start or stop sharing with your family
• Get to know Google One family groups with Guidebooks