How To Register Echo To A Different Account

If you've got an Alexa device in your abode, like an Echo smart speaker, anyone in your home can use it. Simply there are certain disadvantages to having it associated with only ane business relationship. Mainly, it means that everyone is pretty much sharing the same account.

You lot tin can create what Amazon calls a "household." That means that there tin be two adult accounts on the device. On an Repeat, that means information technology tin can display photos and allow notifications (for instance, for a to-do listing) from both accounts. Creating a household also permits one member of the household to make a purchase using the other'south business relationship, which can be useful if one person has a Prime account. (Yous can add a code if you'd rather not allow the other household member to brand purchases.) And exterior of an Alexa device, having a household lets you share digital content such as ebooks and games.

At that place are a few limitations.

Outset, you tin can simply add i other developed (or teenager) to a household account. You can add up to 4 teens age 13–17 (who can shop on their own with parents approving the purchases). Y'all tin also add four children age 12 and under via the Amazon Kids Plus plan, which costs $four.99 a month (or $2.99 a month for Prime number members) for a single child and $9.99 a month (or $vi.99 a month for Prime members) for up to four children. Also, don't confuse this with Amazon Household, the service attached to a general Amazon account, which allows ii adults, up to four teens, and up to four child profiles to share an account.

Here's how to add someone to your household:

Become to the Amazon Household folio on the Amazon website. (You tin no longer add a household member using the Amazon app.)
Select "Add together Adult" (or "Add a Teen" or "Add a Child")

*Click on "Add Adult" to add someone to your household.*

Add the name and email of the developed you want to share the business relationship with. They will exist invited to join your Amazon Household. (A teen volition also become an invite; you volition need to create a child's profile yourself.)

Your new Household member will be send an email — *Your new household member will exist sent an email.*

Once that's washed, to become from one account to some other, you lot merely have to say, "Alexa, switch accounts." (If you've lost track of whose business relationship you're using, you can say, "Alexa, place account.")

Remove a 2nd account

What if you lot no longer want the other adult on your account? (Breakups exercise happen.) You can easily remove them from your household:

Go to the same "Manage your Household" page on the Amazon site. On the left, you'll run into icons representing y'all and the other member of your household.
You can either select "Leave" to leave the household yourself or "Remove" to remove somebody from your household. Exist enlightened that any adult leaving or removed from a household won't be able to join another for 180 days (in other words, vi months).

To remove a Household member, go to the — *To remove a household fellow member, go to the "Manage Your Household" page.*

That 180-twenty-four hour period restriction could be a trouble if, for example, y'all're simply trying to transfer a household fellow member to a different account or if yous've accidentally removed somebody. In either case, it's a proficient idea to contact Amazon customer support via chat or telephone. Co-ordinate to a customer service rep I chatted with, Amazon tin can remove a household fellow member without imposing the 180-mean solar day ban if requested. And if you've already removed 1, it tin reset the account then that you can add another earlier the six-month period is upwards.

Update March 18th, 2021, ii:15PM ET: This article was originally published on Nov 19th, 2019, and has been updated to adapt changes in Amazon's Household programme.