How to disband my Family group, and what's the impact?

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How to disband my Family group, and what's the impact?

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As my two children grow older, I'm growing less comfortable with having Family Safety features available. My wife and I have moved away from technological control and towards a situation of mutual trust and informed independence.

As the next step, I want to remove both my children from Family Safety. But while I can see how I can do this, I can't find information on what the consequences will be. What will be the impact on my childrens' user experience next time they sign in? Will their accounts turn into normal, independent Microsoft accounts? Do they need to do anything to complete the transition from Family Safety to independent accounts?

And specifically, I have a Microsoft 365 family subscription, which the four of us use. Is that affected, or does that function independently of the Microsoft Family feature?

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Answer 1

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

When you remove the children from the Microsoft Family, they will then become administrator on their accounts like normal adults, they would not require any permissions any longer from an adult.

With regards to the Microsoft 365 (Office) Family account, it depends on the method used to install Office for the children, did you use the Share option provided on the link below to give the children access to Office on their own accounts with their own Microsoft Account logins and 1TB of OneDrive storage?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/shar...

Answer 2

Anonymous

Yes, I did, thanks.

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Answer 3

But now I'm running into a new challenge: Family won't let me remove my children.

In the Family app and online, I see both my childrens' accounts, as well as my own, and I'm clearly marked as Family Organizer. I'm also without any doubt the account who entered them into the Family group: I'm the only adult involved, no other adult (including my wife) has ever been involved in this Family group.

However, when I attempt to remove my children from the group, both the app and the website report that I cannot, and that onluy the family admin who gave them permission to be included can remove them. There is no way that was anyone but me back then, and very little doubt it was me with this account. So I don't understand how I cannot remove them.

Any ideas?

Answer 4

Hi there,

have you had an answer to this as I am having the same nightmare? My kids are getting prompted to send for authorisation when using certain games on XBox despite being over age and I cannot remove them from the family group for the reasons you state. I am the organiser!

I am caught in an awful "microsoft" loop where I can't disband the family and I can't set the authorisations i need.

Answer 5

I did eventually work out how to remove them, but the side effects were unacceptable: they were no longer able to share in our Office 365 license. Conversely, when I re-invited them to the Office 365 license, they were re-added to the family group. It seems that Microsoft, like Apple, does not allow children to have an independent digital life. Very annoying and frustrating!