How to Add Members to a Family Group
In this article, you'll learn how to add new members to a Nintendo Account family group.
Additional Information:
Up to 7 additional members can be added to a Nintendo Account family group.
When any member of a family group purchases a Nintendo Switch Online Family Membership, the Nintendo Switch Online service is available to everyone in the family group.
Each family group has one Admin. The admin is the only person that can add or remove members to the family group.
Children under age 13 can only be added by an admin aged 18+.
Nintendo Accounts that are already included in a family group can be removed from the group or added to a different family group.
Complete These Steps:
Sign in to the admin Nintendo Account for the family group.
If you don’t yet have a Nintendo Account, visit http://accounts.nintendo.com to create one.
Select “Family group.”
Select “Add member.”
This option only appears for the family group’s admin member. If this option isn’t appearing, review the other members in the family group to verify the admin. The admin will need to either add the new member or transfer the admin rights to you before you can continue.
How old is the person you're adding?
How old is the admin for the family group?
Nintendo Accounts for children aged 15 and under can only be added by an admin aged 18+. You will need to transfer the admin rights to a family group member aged 18+.
Once the rights have been transferred, the new admin can follow these steps to add a Nintendo Account for a child.
Click Create a child account.
Enter the following information into the fields:
Nickname: 10 characters or less
Child account Sign-In ID: This is the username the child will use to sign in with. It must be at least 6 characters long and cannot contain capital letters, spaces or punctuation.
Child account password: Passwords must be at least 8 characters long and include a combination of characters from two of the following categories: letters, numbers and punctuation.
Gender (Optional)
Check the box to agree to the terms and conditions, then select Submit.
Select OK to create the account.
Provide the Sign-In ID and password to your child so that he/she can use the account.
The child’s Nintendo Account will now appear in the family group area of your account settings, and you can adjust various settings (password, Parental Controls, etc.) from there.
Do they already have a Nintendo Account?
Select Invite someone to your family group.
Enter the email address that is registered to the Nintendo Account that you want to add, then click Submit.
A verification email will be sent to the email address that you entered.
The owner of the other Nintendo Account will need to do the following to agree:
Open the email and click the verification link.
Sign in to their Nintendo Account.
Click Join family group to move the Nintendo Account into the admin’s family group.
Once the Nintendo Account owner has agreed, their account will appear in your family group section and can be set as a parent/guardian or supervised account if desired.
The parent/guardian can also unlink Nintendo Accounts that have been added in this way.
If the person you want to add does not yet have a Nintendo Account, they will need to first visit accounts.nintendo.com to create one.
Once they have created a Nintendo Account, select Invite someone to your family group.
Enter the email address that is registered to the Nintendo Account that you want to add, then click Submit.
A verification email will be sent to the email address that you entered.
The owner of the other Nintendo Account will need to do the following to agree:
Open the email and click the verification link.
Sign in to their Nintendo Account.
Click Join family group to move the Nintendo Account into the admin’s family group.
Once the Nintendo Account owner has agreed, their account will appear in your family group section and can be set as a parent/guardian or supervised account if desired.
The parent/guardian can also unlink Nintendo Accounts that have been added in this way.