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 .
- Go to g.co/YourFamily .
- Select the family member you want.
- Select Give parental permissionsor Remove parental permissions
Confirm.
- Open the Google Play Store app
.
- At the top right, tap the profile icon.
- Tap Settings
- Tap Manage parent privileges.
- Choose someone to add or remove as a parent.
- Tap Confirm.
- An email notification is sent when parent privileges are changed.
- Open the Family Link app
.
- At the top left, tap your child’s profile Manage Family.
- Select someone to add or remove as a parent.
- Tap Remove or Add parent privileges Confirm.
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google One app
.
- Tap Menu
- Tap Manage family settings
- Select the family member you want.
- Tap Give parental permissionsor Remove parental permissions
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.
- Go to g.co/YourFamily .
- Select your name.
- Select Remove parental permissions
- Open the Play Store app
- At the top right, tap the profile icon.
- Tap Manage your Google Account People & sharing Manage your family group.
- Choose the parent whose privileges you want to remove.
- Tap Remove parental permissions.
- Open the Family Link app
- At the top left, tap your child’s profile Manage Family.
- Select someone to remove as a parent.
- Tap Remove parental permissions Confirm.
Parent privileges
Parents have most of the privileges the family manager has, which include these privileges:
- Create child accounts.
- Upgrade child accounts.
- Delete child accounts.
- Start supervision of child accounts.
- Stop supervision of child accounts.
- Upgrade a pre-existing Google Account to a supervised child account.
- Can leave or be removed from the family group without consequences to the accounts they create at any time.
- 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
- Recover a deleted Google Account for a child under 13 or the applicable age in your country
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 .
