Change of child account to adult account

GalacticEmpire9 · Dec 4, 2017

I have found out that you cannot change a child account to a adult account. If you want a adult account you will have to make a new one. Can someone change my account to an adult account? Or transfer all my points, achievements, friends and progress in games
to a new account that I'll change to an adult.

If all this cannot happen. Do you know an exploit in the system or bug that'll let me?

:)

JoNL0K · Dec 4, 2017

Parent Account

I want to change my account from a child account to an adult account but I forgot my adult account completely. How do I change my account from child to buy games and actually use it if I forgot my adult account?

Vorpal1986 · Dec 4, 2017

Unlinking an email/parental email

So, if I understand, you account is an child account and you want to unlink your parent's account from yours? Unfortunately, child account are not allowed to be managed without and adult account attached, you can ask yours parent's (adult account owner)
to contact support and ask for a change of adult account, re-alocating the child account to another MSA adult

steeledwand7664 · Dec 4, 2017

If the date of birth on the child account when it was originally set up has reached the age of 18 then you would have to sign in with the parental account at account.microsoft.com/family and remove the child from the family. and that would put the child
into its own family as an adult. if you remove the child from the current family and its date of birth when the account was originally setup has not reached 18 it will not allow the account to be signed in until it is put into a new family as a child.

Smwutches

You can change a child account to an adult account, but you can't change an adult account to a child account. In order to manage them, you would have to create new child accounts for them.

Saeleth

Is the account in question a child's or adult's account? If its a child account you may want to change it to an adult account and give it a shot.

ChaosReigNZ84

I can't remember 100% but I am sure whoever set up the child account can change it. Like if you made an adult account on the xbox before making the child account that adult account can change wether the child account is a child account or and adult one.
I will just test this out myself now and post how it went

XBF Leo G

Hello PhilipBasgal,

Thank you for posting on the Xbox forums. We understand that you are interested in changing a child account to an adult account. Once an account has been established as a child account, it cannot be changed to an adult account until the child turns
18. The best way to manage the child account is to
add it to a family. This requires an adult account to add the child account to the family. Once the child account has been added to the adult account's family, the child account will be able to access online features. Be sure to let us know the results!

M3tal Daz3

Only a parental (adult account) can change the privacy settings for a child account. Your parents should open an adult account and add your child account to it.

Change of child account to adult account