How to set up a YouTube Music Premium family plan?

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October 10, 2026

YouTube Music allows you to listen to official songs, albums, playlists, artist radio, remixes, and live versions of songs and watch music videos. The service offers a free, ad-supported tier for general listening. Upgrading to YouTube Music Premium removes ads, enables background playback when you exit the app or lock your screen, and lets you download tracks for offline listening.

A standard YouTube Music Premium subscription ($11.99/month) covers a single user account. To share membership benefits with others, you can upgrade to the YouTube Music Family plan ($18.99/month), which allows you to invite up to five additional family members. Each invited member receives full, independent access to YouTube Music Premium features on their own account.

YouTube Music Premium is included in YouTube Premium. If you also watch YouTube videos, you can subscribe to YouTube Premium Family to enjoy ad-free viewing and offline downloads across both platforms.

Step 1. Subscribe to YouTube Family or YouTube Music Family

To sign up for a YouTube Premium membership and establish a family group, visit https://www.youtube.com/premium/family via a web browser. To set up a YouTube Music Premium family plan instead, go to https://www.youtube.com/musicpremium/family.

If you use an iPhone or iPad, do not subscribe or upgrade directly inside the YouTube or YouTube Music mobile app. Apple adds extra fees to in-app purchases.

If you are an existing YouTube Music Premium member, follow these steps to upgrade your individual Music Premium membership to a family plan.

Android:

1. In the YouTube app, tap your profile picture, then select Purchases and memberships.
2. Tap Get family plan.
3. Tap Get family plan again.
4. Tap Buy.
5. Set up your Google family group.

Computer:

1. Go to youtube.com/paid_memberships on a web browser.
2. Click Get family plan.
3. Click Get family plan again.
4. Click Upgrade.
5. Set up your Google family group.

iPhone or iPad:

1. In the YouTube app, tap your profile picture and then Purchases and memberships.
2. Tap Get family plan.
3. Tap Get family plan again.
4. Confirm the purchase.
5. Set up your Google family group.

Step 2. Create a family group to share YouTube Premium

After you subscribe to the YouTube Premium family plan, follow the steps to create a family group. 

On Desktop:

1. Go to https://www.youtube.com/paid_memberships on a web browser and click Manage membership.

2. Click Edit next to Family sharing settings.

3. Select Continue.

4. Go to https://myaccount.google.com/family/details and click Get started.

5. Click Create a family group and Confirm.

6. Enter a name or email to invite your family. You can invite up to 5 people to join your family group if they are 13 years or older. Children can be added via Google Family Link.

7. The family member you invite will receive an email and can simply click “Accept Invitation” to become part of the family group. This means they will also gain access to both YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium.

On Mobile Devices:

1. In the YouTube app, tap your profile picture, then Purchases and memberships.
2. Tap Premium Family membership.
3. Tap Edit next to Family sharing settings.
4. Tap Invite family members.

Extra Tip: How to download YouTube Music to computer?

YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium users can download songs, albums, and playlists for offline playback, but only on mobile devices. There is no YouTube Music app for computers, and you can’t download music from the YouTube Music web player. Then how to listen to YouTube Music offline on computer? The best solution is to download YouTube Music songs, albums and playlists to MP3.

Pazu YouTube Music Converter specializes in converting songs from YouTube Music to AAC/MP3/FLAC/WAV/AIFF/M4A with zero quality loss. It can convert YouTube Music songs at 10X fast speed with original ID3 tags. Follow the guide below to download YouTube Music with a free YouTube Music account.

1. Run Pazu YouTube Music Converter 

To get started, download, install and run Pazu YouTube Music Converter on your Windows PC, which features a built-in YouTube Music web player.

If you have already purchased a license, click the key icon to register the converter. If not, continue using the trial version.

You don’t need to sign in to your YouTube Music account.

2. Choose output format

The default output format is M4A. Pazu YouTube Music Converter also supports MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. Click the gear button to change the output format or output folder. You can also change the bitrate and sample rate according to your needs.

3. Add songs

Browse or search to find the songs, albums or playlists you want to download. Click the album or playlist you want to download. Then click the red icon to load songs. 

All songs in the playlist/album will be selected by default. You can uncheck the songs you don’t want to get.

4. Download Music from YouTube Music

After selecting the songs, click the Convert button to start downloading YouTube Music songs to the format you choose. You will see a progress circle indicating your music is downloading.

Once the songs are downloaded, click the folder icon to quickly find the DRM-free YouTube Music songs in the format you chose. You can then transfer and play them anywhere.