adding family member to account

Question

how to add a family member to my microsoft 365 account

Answer 1

To add a family member to your Microsoft 365 account, you must have an active Microsoft 365 Family subscription. Note that the Microsoft 365 Personal plan cannot be shared. You can share your plan with up to five other people (six total users), and each person will get their own premium Office apps and 1 TB of private OneDrive cloud storage.

For details, refer to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accounts-billing/subscriptions/share-your-microsoft-365-subscription

1. Go to your Microsoft 365 Services & subscriptions sharing page at account.microsoft.com/services/office/sharing Sign in
2. Select Share. Note
   • If you don't see the Start sharing button, you may not be the owner of the Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Premium subscription. If you're using a Microsoft 365 subscription that someone else shared with you, or if you have another type of Microsoft 365 subscription, you can't share your subscription with other people.
   • If the person you want to share your Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Premium subscription with is not yet in your family group, send them an email invitation or link to join your family group. If they are already in another family group, they will need to leave it to join yours.
3. Choose how you'd like to share,
   1. Select Email invite then enter their email and select Invite.
   2. Select Create link then select Copy link. You can then paste the link in an email, text, or other message and send it to those you want to share with. Note
      • When you share your subscription with someone, they get an email from Microsoft telling them that you've shared your Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Premium subscription with them.
      • Each person you've shared with will need to select Get started in the email they receive to go to their Microsoft Family Safety site. If they don't have a Microsoft account, they'll be prompted to create one in order to move on.
      • They should then select Join now to accept the invitation to join your family group before they can access the benefits of your Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.
      • If you need to send an invitation again, find their name, and choose Resend invite.
4. They will need to accept your invitation within 48 hours. During this time, you will see "Pending invite" in your Microsoft 365 subscriptions dashboard. Note Once you have shared, they can select the Install Microsoft 365 on all your devices option one their account dashboard to install Microsoft 365 and access their OneDrive storage.

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Marcin