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Cake day: February 13th, 2025

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  • For Google Play the requirements are:

    • the family manager is over 18 and has a payment method on file (they manage the family wallet).
    • the family members are in the family managers country, (and if under 13 the account is created by the manager).

    I only have direct experience with managing a kid under 13, in that case I have created the account for him and never entered a payment method on his account. For any purchases he wants to make via the “family wallet” it needs my direct approval, which can be granted by using an app on my device or directly entering my password onto his. After either of us has made a purchase we have a “share with family library” toggle that can share the title with the other family member. Note that this only applies to direct title purchases from the store, if a feature is locked behind IAP it can’t be shared. We have his accompanied locked so he needs my approval for any purchases (including free apps) but this is not required by the platform.

    For child accounts the family manager can choose between requiring approval for each of the following on each child account:

    • All content
    • All purchases using the family payment method
    • Only in-app purchases
    • No approval required

    I presume the for adult family members the family manager only has control of the Family Wallet but I don’t have direct experience to confirm.




  • Its a strategic time for this regime to be implemented. With a sequel console on the horizon a lot of households are going to become 2 switch families soon. Anything to make customers more comfortable spending money will speed the uptake.

    For PlayStation I liked they way they let each user nominate 1 primary PS4 and 1 primary PS5. They both could play the PS4 library without restriction so the old console was a perfect hand-me-down.

    In comparison for Xbox they have maintained that the whole platform is homogeneous with each account only allowed one home console at a time be it One or Series.