How to transfer email from a kids account to an adult

Hi there,

I'm afraid there is no way to transfer anything from one account to another account. The Xbox Account is linked to the Microsoft account and can not be transferred, same for progress in games etc.

It's great that you want to make such an amazing gift for your friend's grandson.

While others already described how to remove your account, please help your friend make an account for himself (an adult account), and a separate (child) account for his grandson.

Some (grand) parents make the mistake of using their own adult email account and let the kid play with that.

However, by using their own adult account for the kid, the kid is regarded as an adult for the console, and the parent is unable to prevent the kid from talking to internet strangers for example, or limit the playtime. Also, this prevents the kid from going
on an (accidental) shopping spree, and buying stuff from the Xbox Marketplace with the parent's credit card or bank account.

So please advise your friend, that when they create an account for his grandchild, that he (or the father of the kid) should create their own adult Microsoft Account and then a separate child account (by giving the kid's actual birthdate during account creation).

After the child account is created, the parent should then go to
https://account.microsoft.com/family and add the child account to their family.

That way, the parent can set permissions and privacy options to make the Xbox a safe place to play.

Additionally, this avoids later issues, where the kid would be able to access the parent's email or other Microsoft Services, if the parents let the kid play on their account. Later, you can't move the kid's gaming account away from the parent email account,
without the parent's Microsoft Account being deleted.

If your account is a Microsoft Account (i.e. you used a Hotmail/Outlook/Live.com email address for yourself), be aware that you will lose your emails, OneDrive data and everything else associated with your account!

If you used a third party email (like Yahoo, Gmail, or your own domain email), you can at least have your own email.

Go to
https://account.microsoft.com and add a sign in alias to your account that you wish to transfer to your son.

Be aware, that the email can NOT be a Microsoft Account already!

After you added your son's email, make this email the primary sign in alias. After changing to your son's email as the primary sign in alias, remove your own email as a sign in alias.

AGAIN BEWARE! Unless you use a third party email, you will lose your emails and other Microsoft Account services!!!

If you do have a Microsoft Account, and wish to keep your OneDrive and email content, then there is no way around getting your son a new account.

Unfortunately, parents sometimes think they do good by using their own email for their kids on Xbox, thinking they can control their kids better that way.

But the opposite is the case. By using your own adult account for your kid, the kid is regarded as an adult, and can do anything on Xbox: Purchasing stuff in your name, talk to internet strangers, play adult oriented games and whatnot.

To benefit from the parental controls and to be able to use the online and privacy features for children, it is necessary to make a separate child account right from the start, and add that child account to your own parent account.

That way you can limit screen times, allow the kid to only talk to known friends from their friend list and only play games suitable for their age.

Since child accounts can't change their online and privacy settings themselves, they are safe, and can only do what the parent account allows them to do.

While kids on the parent's adult account can set up their own online and privacy settings themselves.

To conclude:

You basically have only two choices: If you don't want to risk losing your email, OneDrive content, Skype and other Microsoft Account services, your kid has to start over with a new account.

If you don't use other Microsoft Account services like OneDrive, Skype, Office etc. and you use a third party email service, then you can give your son a sign in alias on your account, make this the primary sign in alias, and remove your email from the account,
effectively transferring the account to your kid.

Is your son using your own (adult) account?

If so, do yourself a favor and create a separate account for your son with his own email.

There are so many parents in this forum, where the son went on a shopping spree with the unrestricted parent account, or where the parents later reconsider giving their kid access to their own email, and then all game progress can't be transferred over to
the new account of the kid.

The earlier your son has their own account, the better.

If you do as Njal the Blue suggested, that would make your son's email a login alias for your adult account, and you wouldn't still be able to control his account.

Unfortunately, for this scenario, your kid has to start over using their own email and new Gamertag profile, as there is no way to transfer the game progress to another account.

Your account can however share Gold memberships and game ownership to the console your kid is playing on, so they can still play the games you bought with that account and can still use the Gold membership shared to that console from your account.