How to share your Amazon Prime account with your family or roommates
From streaming movies and TV shows via Prime Video to accessing your favorite books onKindleand more, your Prime membership benefits can go a long way. Sharing the benefits of your Prime membership with your family can enhance its value. you may do this by setting up an Amazon Household and adding your family members to it. This guide walks you through the process.
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How sharing your Amazon Prime benefits with family works
You’ll create a Household to share the benefits attached to your Amazon Prime account with others. Besides Prime benefits, you can share digital content inside your Family Library, such as e-books, apps, and audiobooks.
Amazon only allows you to create one Household per account and add up to two adults, four teens, and four children to make up the group. If you invite a new person after reaching the limit, you must remove an existing one. Also, if you join another Household, you must leave the one you’re in. Either way, Amazon makes you wait 180 days before you can enter another family group or add someone.
Any Household member is eligible to enjoy Prime benefits as long as they are adults 18 years of age or above or teenagers between ages 13 to 17. it’s possible to add children under 13 years, but you can’t share the benefits with them as Amazon prohibits it. However, you can personalize their experience on Fire tablets or Kindle e-readers. If you receive benefits from another Prime member in a Household, you can’t transfer them to someone else. This restriction also applies to Prime Video-only and Prime Student subscribers.
How to create an Amazon Household for sharing Prime benefits
To create an Amazon Household,visit the web pageand decide on an account type. it’s possible to add an adult, teen, or child. Next, enter the name and email associated with your new member’s regular Amazon account.
You need to consent to share a wallet, and so do the new members when they accept your invitation. This is so Amazon can verify that you live with the people you add to the Household. You may not like this part because they can move your payment methods to their wallets. There’s no way to stop them from doing so. However, Amazon notifies you when it happens. After you’ve given wallet-sharing consent, choose what digital content you want to share with the Household, such as apps, audio, and e-book purchases.
Members must accept your invitation and verify their account details to complete the process. They have two weeks to do that, and you’ll receive a notification after they’ve successfully joined. Everyone you invite receives an email that looks like the sample below.
To accept the invitation, they’ll press theGet Prime benefitsbutton. Then, they’ll clickContinueon the page informing them that they can cancel any Prime membership they have. Finally, they must agree to the wallet-sharing agreement and opt-in to share any digital purchases. After that, the person’s enrollment is done. Repeat the application procedure with the other family members you want to add, and your Amazon Household is complete.
The only major limitation is that everyone in a Prime Household must live in the same country and shop in the same marketplace. You can’t share your Prime benefits with anyone if you’re in different countries. However, it works if you all live in different states.
All the Amazon Prime benefits you can share
You can share the following Amazon Prime benefits with your Household:
The shipping benefits that your Prime membership comes with are the most attractive deals. You can shop for millions of eligible items without meeting a minimum order quantity. You’ll also get your deliveries quicker than you would without a Prime membership.
Both adults and teens can enjoy it, but teens need to complete a verification process since parental controls are in place. Amazon sends a notification to you, the primary Household manager, when a teen checks out items. You’ll review the transactions and approve or deny them.
Household members also have access to benefits that don’t ship. TakeAmazon Prime Gaming, for instance. Your family can claim exclusive in-game content instantly and stream their favorite shows on their devices. If you’re concerned about what your teenagers watch, set viewing restrictions for digital content.
If you’re familiar with the freebies that come with Prime Gaming, you know there’s a catch to claiming them. They’re limited to one account every month. But you can get your Fall Guys character skins, while your partner snags an Overwatch legendary loot box. Your kids can get their respective Apex and Roblox goodies. After you’ve each selected the offer you want to claim, you’ll wait until the next month to do it again. Before you waste these perks, ensure that everyone knows that Prime Gaming benefits are on a first-come-first-served basis.
Prime Video and Gaming aren’t the only shared digital benefits. There’s also Prime Reading, Amazon First Reads, and Amazon Photos cloud storage. If you’re concerned about privacy, Amazon Photos content remains private until you share that content with your Household. Additionally, your household has access to all the discounts and exclusives you have, including Prime Early Access, up to 20% price slashes on baby food and diapers, and 10% off Whole Foods Market purchases.
So you can get back to watching all your favorite shows
Amazon Prime benefits you can’t share
Household members can’t shareAmazon Musicbenefits. However, they can use the limited free version and get special pricing offers for the Amazon Music Unlimited plan. This way, they pay less than they usually would for the premium service. This member-discounted pricing also applies to the FreeTime Unlimited plan for Kindle.
If you’d rather share Amazon Music benefits with your family, you can pay separately for the Amazon Unlimited Family plan. This service is different from Prime Music and is designed for families who want to share music streaming capabilities. It supports up to six profiles, and each person can create individual playlists and music libraries and follow their favorite artists. Children can also share these experiences with your approval and monitoring.
It’s inconvenient having to pay extra for another Amazon service when you have a Prime membership. You can bypass this drawback bycreating multiple profiles on smart Echo speakers. If you live in the same house with your family, they can command Alexa to play songs for them.
How to remove someone from your Amazon Prime Household
Amazon Household accounts are capped at six members. Up to two adults and four children or teenagers can be added to your account. If you’re an adult who has left or been removed from a Household, you will need towait 180 days to join another Amazon Household.
it’s possible to’t completely delete your Amazon Household if you no longer need it. However, Amazon automatically deletes it if you change your account’s country. If that’s not something you want to do, you can remove members. Removing a Household member strips them of every benefit they’re currently enjoying. When you do it, you can’t add them back until after 180 days. Also, they can’t join a new household until that period elapses. Follow the steps below if you’re sure of the decision:
How to use Alexa if you’re part of an Amazon Household
After you link two adult Amazon accounts under a Household, you can access and use Alexa-compatible devices that are linked to Household accounts. If Alexa is not linked to your current account, say, “Alexa, switch accounts.” This switches to your account within the Household.
It helps to use Alexa since you may listen to notifications from linked accounts (members can turn these off if there are privacy concerns), make or receive Alexa calls on compatible devices for all accounts that are part of the Household, and view Amazon Photos on compatible Echo devices.
There’s no reason not to sign up
A Prime membership offers several benefits that make the cost worth it. Even if you have only one other person to share the benefits with, you’re saving money since both of you can access the perks with one account. If you decide that the features and benefits of this membership are no longer useful to you and the members of your Household,cancel your Amazon Prime subscriptionand resume it at any point in the future.
Walmart Plus, Instacart Express, and Google Photos are good options, depending on what you’re looking for. They don’t offer an all-around package like Amazon Prime, which has pros and cons. For one, you don’t have to pay for what you don’t need. You can use Google Photos to store memories with up to 15GB of free space. If you need free next-day or two-day shipping on grocery orders, use Walmart Plus and Instacart Express. The con is that you must sign in separately for each service to use your benefits.
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