Start or stop sharing with your family - Android (2024)

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Learn how family sharing works with Google One

The person who shares their storage is called the Google One plan manager. This person can start or stop sharing their Google One family plan at any time. You can share Google One with up to 5 family members.

Based on how much storage your family group uses, you can change, upgrade, or downgrade your Google One plan.

There are 2 kinds of storage space: personal storage space and shared storage space.

Important: The Workspace Individual subscriber’s cloud storage can’t be shared among family members.

• Each member of the family group gets 15 GB of personal storage space for their files: A family member’s files fill up their personal space first.
• There's also shared storage split between everyone in your family group: After a family member's personal storage gets filled up, their files count toward the shared storage space. Family members can use as much of this available storage as they want.
• Others in your family won’t have access to your files unless you share them directly.
• When you make a family group, extra benefits are shown to everyone in your family, except accounts managed by parents. Some benefits go to the first family member who claims them.

Requirements for joining a family

What happens when you stop sharing

Benefits that everyone in the family group can use:

• Enhanced editing features in Google Photos
• Shipping benefits on Google Photos print orders
  • The benefits are available in:
    • Canada
    • European Union
    • United Kingdom
    • United States
• Premium features in Google Workspace
  • The feature is available for Google One Premium plans.

Allowed benefits for Google One plan manager:

• Get Google Store credit from eligible Google Store purchases.
  • The benefit is available in:
    • Australia
    • Canada
    • Germany
    • United Kingdom
    • United States
  • Users on Google One trial memberships aren’t eligible.

• Fitbit Premium and Nest Aware bundle:
  • The feature is available for Google One Premium plan subscribers in the United Kingdom.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google One app .
2. At the top, tap Menu Settings.
3. Tap Manage family settings Invite family Confirm.
4. To finish setup, follow the on-screen instructions.

Anyone in a family group can purchase a Google One membership and share it with their whole family, up to 6 members total,at no extra cost.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google One app .
2. At the top, tap MenuSettings.
3. Tap Manage family settings.
4. Turn on Share Google One with your family. To confirm, on the next screen, tap Share.
5. Tap Manage family group Invite family members.
6. Follow the instructions to finish setup.

Check storage usage by family member

You can check how your total space is shared between members of your Google One family plan.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google One app .
2. At the bottom, tap Storage.
3. Next to "Family storage," tap the down arrow .
4. Review which members takeup space.

Members of a family group can only free up space from their own storage usage. You can't affect the storage usage by other family members. Ask the people using too much space if they can free up Google storage space.

If you’re the Google One plan manager and can’t find how much your storage is used, follow the steps above to make sure family sharing is on.

Learn how to join a family. If they still don't get an invite, ask a Google expert for help.

If you have a Google One Membership, you can enjoy both your individual storage and the Family Plan Manager’s shared storage. However, you have to use your individual storage up before you use the shared storage.

If you already have a Google One Membership when your family adds you to their plan, you can use both memberships and storage. However, you can’t upgrade or downgrade your individual membership. Once you use up your individual account’s storage, you can start to use the family’s storage.