How Do I Add A Friend On Amazon

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Your Amazon Prime number account is set up with a feature called Amazon Household that allows you to share a large handful of your benefits with friends and family.

Add some other adult to your digital household and relish piece of cake features including parental controls for the kids, unlimited storage for photos, and a family library to share books, apps, and games. Here's how to get started!

How to add members to your Household in Amazon Prime

one. Click Account & Lists from the drop-downwards menu located at the top-right side of your screen.

ii. Scroll downwardly to your Account Settings.

three. Select the Amazon Household (opens in new tab).

iv. On the Household homepage, click Add together an developed. You can only add one extra adult to your business relationship.

five. Have the developed enter their Login Information, whether they're a trial member or Prime member.

half-dozen. Add upward to iv children to your household by clicking Add a child.

vii. Or, you tin can add upward to four teens past clicking Add a teen.

8. Each child's profile can be modified by clicking Edit underneath their avatar.

Once you lot've added everyone to your household — adults, teens and kids — you're all fix to share content! Keep in mind that each developed volition exist sharing their payment information under the aforementioned account, and so it's of import to ensure the advisable credit or debit card is selected at checkout when purchasing products or content.

How to Manage your Content in Amazon Prime

i. Select Your Business relationship from the driblet-downwardly menu located at the acme-right side of your screen.

2. Ringlet down to your Account Settings.

three. Select the Amazon Household (opens in new tab) selection.

four. Under your household homepage, click Manage Your Family Library.

5. Select whether or not you wish to share apps/games, audiobooks, or eBooks by clicking their Sharing Buttons.

6. Underneath your Family Library, select Manage your Content and Devices.

7. Select Show Instant Video nether the Content Tab.

8. Click Prove Amazon Kids+ located under Your Content.

ix. Choose from your Instant Videos and select Add to Amazon Kids+.

10. Choose between videos and Select a Child to permit viewing access.

xi. Click OK when finished.

That's the basics for managing your content under your Household account!

Amazon Prime is more than simply sharing content. For your annual subscription charge yous get access to a great number of perks, including reduced expedited aircraft on orders:

Free 2-twenty-four hours, same-day, and discounted 1-day shipping
Prime Now access
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Early on access to Amazon Lightning Deals
Unlimited storage for photos
Free Kindle books through the Lending Library
20% off diapers subscriptions
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By setting up an Amazon Family unit, it ensures multiple adults tin can admission all these features while still keeping their own separate purchase history and notification emails — useful for avoiding spoiler guild confirmations effectually birthdays and holidays, or if you lot eventually split accounts and want to keep your own purchases.

There's always the option to remove members every bit needed, but if you choose to leave your household, at that place's a 180-day period where neither adult can add members or bring together other households. Setup is quick and easy, and it'due south a great perk for Prime members that love to share.

Another perk to this system is the teen and child accounts. A teen account ensures your teen can log into shared features like Prime Video and Prime Music, but to actually make purchases, they'll submit a asking that an adult will have to approve first, preventing any sneaky credit carte du jour abuse. And a kid membership lets kids access features but doesn't allow for any purchases.

Our peak equipment picks

Now that you lot know how to share your Amazon content with your family, why not get some new devices to enjoy that content on? The best Alexa devices, from speakers to smart displays and Burn tablets, volition let you enjoy all of the new perks available with being part of an Amazon Household.

The Burn Hd 10 gives you an FHD display and 3GB of RAM for lag-free Prime Video streaming, Kindle eastward-books, and Amazon Music streaming. It even has solid-enough performance for productivity apps, a cheap option for note-taking in class or meetings.

All-new Burn down HD ten

Faster, longer battery life, new colors

The latest iteration of the Fire HD ten tablet adds USB-C charging, longer battery life, and a faster processor to enhance the viewing experience. Oh, and it comes in fun new colors like twilight blue and plum!

Once you've added your child to the account, they'll have admission to your shared library of east-books, and if you subscribe to Amazon Kids+ they'll get a tailored collection of content for children aged six-12. And so you lot may want to buy them a Kindle Paperwhite Kids Edition to help foster a love of reading in them.

Kindle Kids Edition

Encourage their love of reading

Amazon has finally expanded their Kids Edition line from Fire tablets and Echo Dots to the Kindle e-reader series. Cool colors and designs are paired with great kids content and parental controls.

Lastly, you lot may want an Amazon Repeat Evidence device, particularly if your other Adult member of the household lives elsewhere. With a shared business relationship, you can make Alexa calls between each other on your respective smart displays and stay in bear on hands.

Amazon Echo Show eight

Just the right size

The Repeat Prove comes in a more natural size that's easier to place in most rooms than the x-inch Echo Show. It's nonetheless comfy enough to watch recipes and videos on.

Jeramy is proud to help *Proceed Austin Weird* and loves hiking in the colina country of central Texas with a breakfast taco in each paw. When he'south non writing about smart home gadgets and wearables, he's defending his relationship with his smart vocalism assistants to his family. You can follow him on Twitter at @jeramyutgw.