How do you share Apple TV with your family?

Written by Robyn

Edited on

8 January 2023

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13:46

How do you share Apple TV with your family?

You can easily share Apple TV with your family members. That way, they can also enjoy exclusive movies and series on Apple TV+. With personal user profiles, every user will see their own favorite apps and recommended movies and series. In this article, we'll explain how to share Apple TV with your family and how to switch between user profiles.

Share Apple TV with family

Get started with sharing Apple TV

It's not difficult to share your Apple TV with your family or to switch between user profiles. You can only add extra users with the Apple TV HD (4th generation) and newer. The users you want to add need to have Apple ID.

  • Share your Apple TV
  • Switch between users
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Share your Apple TV

Via the Settings app on Apple TV, you can easily add users.

  1. open the Settings app and scroll to Users and accounts. Click here.
  2. click Add new user.
  3. enter the Apple ID information of the person you want to add to your Apple TV.
Switch between Apple TV users

Switch between users

You can easily switch between users via the Siri Remote. Press and hold the home button until the control panel appears. You'll see the different users you can choose from. There's also a slightly more difficult way to switch between users. Open Settings and go back to Users and accounts. Go to Current user and select the user you want to activate.

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