How To Use A Google Play Card

Use Google Play Family Library

You can share purchased apps, games, movies, Television shows, and e-books and audiobooks from Google Play with upwardly to five family members using Google Play Family Library.

Sign upwards for Family unit Library

Note: Everyone in your family unit needs to follow the instructions to a higher place to set upwards Family Library.

Requirements

Family director requirements

If you are not part of a family already, you'll get the family manager when you lot sign up for Family Library. Family unit managers must meet all these requirements:

Be xviii or older (or the appropriate historic period in your country)
Have a valid credit bill of fare or debit card to employ as the family payment method
Non exist function of another family group on Google

Annotation: You can't create a family with a Google Account from your work, school, or other organization.

Family member requirements

To bring together a family grouping, you must meet these requirements:

Accept a Google Business relationship. If you're nether 13 or the applicable age in your country, your family manager needs to create a Google Account for you.
Live in the same country equally the family manager.
Not exist part of another family grouping on Google.

Countries

Family Library is bachelor in nigh countries that you tin utilize Google Play.

Add or remove Family unit Library purchases

Eligible purchases can exist automatically added to the Family Library, or you tin add them yourself afterwards you buy them. Apps & games, Movies & Telly shows, and Books sharing with Family Library may be limited in some countries.

When you remove purchases from Family Library or leave your family unit group, your family unit members lose access to the purchases you added to Family unit Library.

Important: To avoid potential issues with adding content to Family unit Library, make certain to utilize the family payment method instead of your personal credit or debit bill of fare to buy movies or Television receiver shows.

Add or remove individual purchases

Apps & games

To remove the content, turn off Family Library.

Movies & TV shows

Open the Play Movies & Telly app .
At the bottom, tap Library.
Under the "Movies" or "Boob tube shows" tab, look for purchased content you want to add.
On the content'due south details page, plow on Family unit Library.

To remove the content, turn off Family unit Library.

Annotation: When yous add TV shows from the Play Movies & TV app, you lot're adding all episodes of the prove. If y'all want to add or remove certain seasons or episodes that were purchased separately, search for the content in the Play Store app and add it to Family Library from the episode or evidence's details page.

Books

Open the Play Books app .
At the bottom, tap Library.
Look for the e-books or audiobooks you want to add together.
Next to the book title, tap More than Add to Family unit Library.

To remove the content, tap More than Remove from Family Library.

Modify your Family Library settings

By default, eligible purchases are automatically added to your Family Library subsequently y'all create or join a family group.

To change the Family Library settings, or remove all buy of a certain type:

Restrict content for certain family unit members

Everyone in your family unit group can come across all the content that'south been added to Family Library.

You can set up parental controls to restrict the content family unit members can run into.

See Family Library content

Apps & games

Movies & Television receiver shows

Open the Google Play Movies & Goggle box app .
At the bottom, tap Library.
Tap the Movies or TV Shows tab.
Roll down to the "Family Library" listing. If you don't meet a "Family unit Library" list, your family members haven't added anything to your Family Library yet.

Annotation: Movies tin be played offline on upwards to 5 devices per family member and 12 devices per family. vi movies can be played at one time, but each flick can only be streamed by one person at a time.

Books

Open up the Google Play Books app .
At the lesser, tap Library.
Tap the Family tab. If you don't see a "Family" tab, it means your family members haven't added any books to your Family Library still.

Note: Each book can be downloaded on up to 6 devices at the same fourth dimension. When someone removes a volume from their device, it becomes available for other family members to download.

See if content is eligible to be added to Family Library

Almost purchased apps, games, movies, Television receiver shows, and books tin can exist added to your Family Library. If an item is eligible to be added, y'all'll come across the Family unit Library icon on the content'south details page .

Movies & TV shows

Any movies or TV shows you lot purchased before your Family Library was created tin can exist added to Family unit Library.

Subsequently you lot sign up for Family Library or join someone's family group, new movie and TV show purchases can only be added if you purchase them with the family payment method, a Google Play gift card, or a promo code.

Movies

Movies sharing with Family unit Library may be limited in some countries.
If yous buy a package of movies, y'all can but add or remove an unabridged bundle from your Family Library, but non individual movies.
Y'all tin't add Play movie rentals or movies purchased on YouTube to Family Library.

Tv set shows

TV shows sharing with Family Library may exist express in some countries.
Yous tin't add Television set prove rentals to Family unit Library.
You can't add Tv shows purchased in YouTube.
TV shows aren't available in all countries.

Apps & games

Apps & games sharing with Family unit Library may be limited in some countries.
Yous can't share in-app purchases and apps downloaded at no charge with your family unit members.
Any apps or games purchased after July ii, 2016 are eligible to be added to Family unit Library. If you purchased the app or game before July 2, 2016, information technology's eligible for Family Library if the developer has made by purchases available. You can discover out whether this is the instance by tapping Read More than on the app's details page.

Books

If the book publisher allows for e-books or audiobooks to be added to Family unit Library, you can share it with your family members.
You can't add samples provided at no charge, public domain books, personal documents you uploaded, or books yous rented to Family Library.
Books can simply be added to Family Library in certain countries.

Music & Newsstand

Music and Newsstand purchases tin can't be added to Family Library.

Troubleshoot problems

I got an error when creating my family

Content was removed from Family Library

If someone removes content from the Family Library, if they leave the family group entirely, or if your family group is deleted, you have to purchase the content in guild to use it.

Once you lot purchase information technology, you'll pick upwardly where you left off. If yous bought in-app purchases in a game, you'll get those back after you buy the game.

I purchased content, just I can't add information technology to Family unit Library

If y'all can't add content yous bought to Family Library, information technology might exist because:

The content isn't eligible to exist added to Family Library.
You used your personal credit or debit card instead of the family payment method to buy the motion-picture show or Telly show.

"Your family unit payment method is invalid"

If you see this message, your family payment method is invalid. If you're the family director, update your family payment method to a valid credit bill of fare so that you and your family members tin can add purchases to Family unit Library.

While the family payment method is invalid, purchases fabricated using other forms of payment won't exist automatically added to Family unit Library. After your family payment method is updated, you lot'll need to manually add those items to Family Library from the details page.

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