How to transfer my sons xbox account to his own microsoft account

Andrew needs help · Dec 20, 2023

My sons xbox account is under my microsoft account, as it was setup when he was young. He now wants to transfer this to his own account. I cannot believe the lack of foresight that nobody at Microsoft has thought this might be an issue. There has to be a way of separating the accounts? Is the only option for me to give him my microsoft account by editing the contact info? Then I open a new account but what happens to one drive and my office 365 subscription? That just renewed 6 weeks ago for another year. He's 16 now what happens when he leaves home as an adult, will he still be tied to my microsoft account. This is beyond ridiculous that there is not a simple solution for this issue as I know its a common problem.

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Smwutches

It's either give him your account or create a brand new account for him and he start over. Nothing can be transferred between accounts.

Andrew needs help

Firstly, does anyone know why this is the case? It seems really odd that this is something Microsoft can't do. Secondly, if I give my son my account how do I transfer my 365 subscription? There's probably other things I don't know about that need transferring also?

Smwutches

I'm not sure why Microsoft set it up that way. It's one of the reasons it's always been possible to create child accounts though.

Nothing can be transferred between accounts. So if you create yourself a new account, you would have to buy a new 365 subscription on your new account and cancel the old one.

Gimpy_P

When I bought my minor son his first Xbox, I added the Xbox to my account and had my son sign in there to use it. He is now an adult and I want him to set up his own Microsoft account and move his Xbox to his own account. How do we do this??.

You can easily havr him create his own account and log into his xbox.

He will lose access to his saved games and anything linked to your account. They cannot be transferred to another Microsoft account, nor can his gamertag.

He would essentially be starting fresh on his account.

KindGryphon

Hi, around 2011 I purchased Minecraft Java for my son using my own email (this Microsoft account). So naturally when we migrated the Mojang account it got migrated to my personal Microsoft account. Now my son is an adult, and due to safety and privacy reasons we would like to transfer the Minecraft user to my sons own Microsoft account, and was wondering if that was possible?

Unfortunately nothing is transferable between accounts.

How to transfer my sons xbox account to his own microsoft account