Move gamertag to different account

Sean McKeever · Jul 21, 2022

Hello,

I am trying to move my wife's gamertag (and her progress) from my stepson's account to my account. He has

cancelled his Game Pass. We aren't looking to transfer anything more then her tag.

Sean

:)

mikey_748

It sounds like that account is set up as an adult account. Adult accounts cannot changed to a child account. Your only option is to create a new child account for your son. he will lose progress, as he will have to start his games again on his new
account.

My account which his gamertag is set up on is an adult account. Surely there must be a way of moving Gamertags between accounts?!? I've set up a child account for him but just need to move his gamertag.

Creating a new gamertag or losing the progress on his current one is really not an option.....

XBF Aaron G

Once a game tag is used that license gets burned and cannot be used again until Microsoft recycles them. If you want your son to keep all his progress you can change your password for the account and set up the privacy and online safety settings to follow
specific guidelines. There's a way to sign in without a password.. so you can lock everything down but the sign in and that should help you with your permission problem. Here's how to do it. Privacy
Preferences

StuartATrueRed

It sounds like that account is set up as an adult account. Adult accounts cannot changed to a child account. Your only option is to create a new child account for your son. he will lose progress, as he will have to start his games again on his new account.

JosefLBohorquez

Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.

I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

Hope you're doing great today Sean

Unfortunately that's not possible, gamertag transfer is not possible between Microsoft accounts, this applies to purchases and progress too.

You can try changing it from here https://social.xbox.com/changegamertag, and see if the gamertag is available after that.

But that doesn't guarantee that you can use that gamertag in your stepson's account

If you have further questions feel free to ask

Greetings from another Microsoft user

onyxishere

Follow the steps at the link below to move your gamertag to another email address. Nothing will be lost in the move.

support.xbox.com/.../switch-gamertag-to-different-microsoft-account

Move gamertag to different account