A free app and service that helps families create healthy digital habits and stay connected. It’s designed to support both online safety and real-world awareness by offering tools for screen time management, content filtering, and location sharing
Use this checklist to add the family member successfully:
- Sign in with the family organizer account at
https://account.microsoft.com/family. - Select Add a family member.
- Choose their role:
- Member for a child
- Organizer for an adult
- Enter their email address or mobile number and select Next.
- Send the invitation.
- Have the invited person open the invitation email, sign in to their Microsoft account, and accept the invitation to join the family group.
If it still does not work, check these common causes:
- The invited person is already in another family group. A person can only be in one Microsoft family group at a time. They must leave or be removed from the current family group before joining a new one.
- The invitation link may have expired. If the invite was sent earlier, resend it and have them accept it again.
- Browser issue while accepting the invite. Try opening the invitation in a different browser or in an incognito/private window.
- No Microsoft account yet. The invited person must sign in with a Microsoft account. If they do not have one, they will be prompted to create one.
If the goal is to share a Microsoft 365 Family subscription, once the invitee accepts the sharing invitation, they automatically become a member of the subscription owner’s family group. Sharing works only while they remain in that family group.