I want to share my game pass subscription with my son on his console how can I do this?

Hi there,

For clarity, you have your console (Console A) and you (Account A-with the subscription), and his console (Console B) that his account (Account B).

What you need to do is this:

Account A needs make Console B it's home console. Then Account B can play on Console B and share the home console subscription benefits that Account A has.

Account A can then play on any console (be it console A, C, or D down the road) provided the console is connected to Live.

If Account B decides to play on Console A, (or any other console besides A's home console), Account A will need to be signed into the console.

More on the home console sharing can be found here.

You would need to set his console as your Home console. https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/console/my-home-xbox

And this won't remove the subscription from my son's console, right?

Subscriptions are tied to the ACCOUNT that bought the subscription.

So your son can go to any console in the world, sign in there, and he will have access to his Gold membership subscription, Game Pass (if applicable) and digital games.

As long as he's signed in on a specific console, that console will also share the Gold membership to anyone playing with him on that console. Even if your son is not actively playing, as long as he is signed online (for example on a second controller), another
person can play on that console and access his games and benefit from the Gold membership.

The account that owns the subscription, can designate one console as their "Home Console" (or as you call it the "Main console") and will share the Gold to that CONSOLE. Any previous "Home Console" will lose the ability to share Gold and games when your
son designates a new Home Console.

Your son's account will still keep his Gold membership, and will share it to the designated Home Console, which in turn allows anyone on that console to benefit from your son's games and Subscriptions.

So is there a specific reason why you want to keep your son's console the Home Console? Are you (or someone else besides your son) playing on that console and needs the subscription?

If so, then there is no other way around than to buy a separate Gold membership for your girlfriends kid. Or you'll have to play on that console to benefit from the shared Gold membership after setting the "girlfriend console" as your son's Home Console.

Thanks for this.

The only real reason I wanted to keep the 'Home Console' designated to my son's Xbox, is that I'm not very clued up on all of this, and I was concerned he'd lose his access to Live Gold.

Hi Lindsay! My name is Darhyl and I’d be more than happy to help you with your query.

I'm sorry you are experiencing this with your Xbox game pass subscription. No worries, let me help you sort this out.

It's important to note that this is a public user-to-user community forum, and none of us here work for Microsoft.

I just want to clarify, do you mean you want to pay for one Xbox game pass subscription only and not twice, is that correct?
If I may ask, do you use the same Xbox console with your son?
Also, by joint account do you mean you want to merge your account and your son's account?

If you want to stop paying for your son's Xbox game pass subscription, you can cancel his subscription by signing his account on account.microsoft.com > go to services and subscription > then cancel the subscription.

Then you can enable the game/subscription sharing on your own Xbox account by signing your account on your console > press the Xbox menu button > go to settings > Personalization > My home Xbox > then Make this as my home Xbox.

Note: If you see the option "Remove this as my home Xbox" instead of "Make this as my home Xbox" it means your account is already set as home Xbox.

By doing so, all of the accounts that will be using that console including your son's will have the benefits of your Xbox game pass subscription as well as play the games purchased on your account.

Also, you won't need to pay for your son's subscription anymore as you will only pay for your own account's subscription by enabling game sharing.

Unfortunately, merging 2 accounts is not possible.

Thank you for your kindness and understanding! Please feel free to let me know if you need anything else.

Best Regards,
Darhyl

I would keep your email as the primary in that case. Your son will be able to sign in using his email. If you are both using the same console, I would sign in with your account and set the console as your Home Console, that way you can share Xbox Live
Gold, Games and Game Pass subscription with your son. More details can be found here on how to share with another account

https://beta.support.xbox.com/help/hardware-network/console/my-home-xbox