What is Family Game Pass?

One membership, five individual accounts Add up to four friends and family members, whether they live under the same roof or not. Each person uses their own account and Xbox profile to save their games, track their achievements, and receive personalised recommendations. Follow Game Pass.
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How does Xbox family Game Pass work?

Here's how Xbox Game Pass subscribers can extend their Game Pass subscription benefits to friends and family. At home: Make your primary Xbox (if you have more than one) your home Xbox, which gives anyone who signs in to the console with their profile the ability to use your Game Pass subscription.
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What are the benefits of Xbox family account?

Benefits of a family group

You can personalize each child's online experience based on age-appropriate limits that you set for privacy, online purchases, content filters, screen time, and more with the Xbox Family Settings app for console or on account.microsoft.com/family.
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Can I share my Xbox Game Pass with family?

Yes, standard Xbox home sharing policies apply to Xbox Game Pass. If you have an Ultimate subscription and have designated your home Xbox, you'll automatically share your subscription with any profile signed in on that console.
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What does the family share do on Xbox?

An Xbox family group allows parents or guardians to help maintain a healthy gaming experience on the Xbox network for everyone in their household. These family safety settings apply to any Xbox console or device that that member signs in to. Adult accounts are known as organizers in the family group.
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How to Family Share your Xbox Gamepass

How does family game share work?

Family Sharing allows family members to share games while keeping their accounts separate. Family and guests can play one another's games while earning their own Steam achievements and saving their own game progress to the Steam Cloud. It works by granting family members access to games on a shared computer.
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What happens when you add someone to your family on Xbox?

When you add children or other members of your household to your family group as members, you can manage the security and safety of their time on the Xbox network. Note To be added as a member, the user must have an existing Microsoft account.
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How many family members can use Xbox Game Pass?

One membership, five individual accounts

Add up to four friends and family members, whether they live under the same roof or not.
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Can you use Xbox Game Pass on multiple devices at the same time?

Users may access Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on any reasonable number of compatible Windows devices and Xbox One or Xbox Series consoles. Games can only be played on one console at a time. Concurrent usage of other games on PC is permitted.
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What is the difference between Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate?

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate includes day one releases, PC Game Pass (the platform's PC equivalent service) and an EA Play membership. You get access to all the games on Xbox Game Pass alongside a bumper library of PC games and titles from EA, including heavy hitters like Total War: Warhammer 3 and Age of Empires 4.
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How does Microsoft family work on Xbox?

The Xbox Family Settings app will enable parents to apply settings for gaming activities on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One. Content and screen time limits can be applied to Windows PCs when a child account is logged into the Microsoft account with Xbox profile that is part of your family group.
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What do Xbox Family Settings do?

The Xbox Family Settings app on Android and iOS lets organisers in the family group manage members' gaming settings and activity on Xbox consoles. The app includes features to help organisers set screen time limits and content filters, and manage how members can play and communicate with other players.
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How do I separate my Xbox account from family?

Remove a family member on your Xbox

Select Profile & system > Settings > Account > Family settings > Manage family members. If prompted, validate that you have the authority to make this change by entering your password or PIN.
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How many consoles can share an Xbox Game Pass?

Game Pass is Microsoft's all-you-can-eat gaming subscription which allows you to play over 100 games for a flat fee each month. If you pay for Game Pass you can share it between two consoles, and even play the same game on both at the same time.
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How do I add someone to my Game Pass?

The only way to share your Game Pass subscription benefits is to either A) have users play on the subscribing account's home console, or B) have the account with the subscription sign into any non-home console (and must remain signed in) so all the other accounts on the console can play the Game Pass games.
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Do you keep the games you get with Xbox Game Pass?

Can I keep free Xbox Game Pass games? No. If you get a game or DLC for free with Xbox Game Pass, you can play the game as long as you have the subscription and as long as the game does not leave the Xbox Game Pass library. If one of the circumstances occurs, you will need to buy the game to continue playing it.
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Can 2 people use the same Xbox Game Pass account?

Yes. I'm using it on two. The catch is one is my "home" console so anyone can benefit from my Game Pass on it, but the other only I benefit from Game Pass. Set your daughter's as "home" and then you sign in on the other.
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How do I add a family member to my Xbox Game Pass?

Select Sign in and sign into your account. Press the Xbox button again and select Profile & system > Settings > Account > Family settings > Manage family members > Add to family > Add new. Allow your invited family member to sign into their Microsoft account. When you are prompted, select Add to family.
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Does Game Pass have a family plan?

Earlier this year in July, Xbox announced it would be ending its preview for the Xbox Game Pass 'Friends & Family' plan.
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Can a Family member play my Xbox games?

The digital game license is tied to your home Xbox and never expires unless you change your home Xbox. This gives you access to your digital games whether you're online or offline. Friends and family that sign in to your home Xbox have access too, even when you're not signed in.
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Can you share Game Pass with Microsoft Family?

You do, just make sure to sign-in to the account with the subscription into the Store of the other accounts.
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What are the different Xbox subscriptions?

Frequently asked questions
  • With Game Pass Ultimate, you can play on console, PC, and across devices on cloud. ...
  • Game Pass Standard provides hundreds of high-quality games, online console multiplayer, and member discounts. ...
  • Game Pass Core delivers online console multiplayer, a curated catalog of games, and member discounts.
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How do I share my Xbox subscriptions with family?

Press the Xbox button  on your controller to open the guide. Select Profile & system, and then sign in to your account. Press the Xbox button  again to open the guide, and then select Profile & system > Settings > Account > Family settings > Manage family members. Select Add to family > Add new.
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What are the benefits of being in a Microsoft family?

As an adult in a family group, you can:
  • Create a shared family calendar.
  • Keep kids safe on the web.
  • Allow adults to check on the device health of others in the family.
  • Set screen time limits.
  • Make sure that kids only see age appropriate content in the Microsoft store online.
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How does Microsoft Family work?

You can send an invitation or add people to your Microsoft family to share your benefits. Once they accept the invitation, they can install Microsoft 365 apps on their devices and access their own 1 TB of OneDrive storage by signing in to www.microsoft365.com with their personal Microsoft account.
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