Sharing pins with childs account

Thanks for contacting us my name is Samy, I am an Xbox Gamer and I will be helping you today.

How are you, mate?

You can put your account home on your console and your kids will be able to play all the games your account has.

You can hide games that are on the list or put all 3 into a family group and restrict the content they can use.

https://account.microsoft.com/family/

This link contains instructions on how to create a group for apps and games.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/games-apps/...

This doesn't work, I've tried it. My children's accounts are already setup that way as Family members in my account and on the Xbox console.

> This will allow them to access the main account's game library, but they will not be able to switch to the main account.

As far as I can see, there is no parental control setting to prevent a user from switching away of their account. You can only set PINs to guard someone switching into a particular account. In order for the games library from the main account to be shared with the child accounts, that main account must be logged in, which means it cant be guarded with a PIN to prevent switching to it.

I've also tried setting having no login PIN on the main account but setting the content restriction so that if the child switches to the main account they'd have to use a PIN in order to open or play anything. That doesn't work because the content restrictions from all logged in accounts are enforced for any account, so if my child tries to open a game they are allowed to play on their account, it requires the PIN from the main account because the main account has lower content restrictions.

There is a pin code it is upto you as the parent to set up family settings along with child account for your child

then put him on a child account or supervise his use

child accounts are what parents should be using not full accounts

that's like giving your child your creditcard or debit card and your pin

Hi, HeatherStirling! Thank you for reaching out.
I'm AJ, an Independent Advisor for the Xbox Community.
I'm sorry to hear you are experiencing issues with the PIN feature.

May I ask if you have already tried changing your account's security preferences? like this:

- Sign in to the parent account
- Go to Settings > Account > Sign in, Security and PIN > Change my sign-in & Security preferences.

A) If you select "Ask for my PIN", your child will need to provide your PIN to sign in to your account or access the "Sign-in, Security and PIN" settings page.

B) If you select "Lock it down", your child will need to provide your password to sign in to your account, and your PIN to access the "Sign-in, Security and PIN" settings page.

This should prevent your child from changing your account's PIN.

Please let me know if that works, I'll be looking forward to your reply.
Best regards.