Splitting an account

BrianMcDonald7 · Mar 30, 2020

I have one account and my 2 sons play different games. Due to the COVID 19 i bought another xbox one. The problem is they can not be logged in at the same time. I wanted to know if theres a way for them to be signed in at the same time and have access
to their status in their games. Would a Family account take care of that?

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Smuroh

Hi matthewLander1,

Sadly splitting accounts is not possible, what you will need to do is create him an account and then add him to your family this way he will still be able to use your gold access and you can monitor what he has been up to.

Here are a list of ways you can set this up:

https://support.xbox.com/help/Family-Online-Safety/child-accounts/add-family-member-on-xbox-one

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12417/microsoft-account-add-members-to-family

https://www.windowscentral.com/parents-guide-xbox-one

I hope this helps your issue.

BoyFantasticITA

Hello Brian,

The family account may solve the issue: https://beta.support.xbox.com/help/Family-Online-Safety/child-accounts/add-family-member-on-xbox-one

Hope I helped you!

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BrianMcDonald7

They would each need their own accounts in order to be able to sign in at the same time. If they have been playing on the same account until now, it would not be possible to move any progress to a new account.

Would a family account help remedy this? Would a family account make it possible to by the game once, then allow each child to play the game or does Microsoft for you into buying a game for each child?

ikickbutt003

Hi,

Nope there is no option to split the account, though since you have an xbox one, you can share the games if you created individual accounts for your children including xbox live. though of course, they need to start their progress again with the new accounts.

I hope that helps.

Dadwhite

Hi there,

Separate accounts can be created for each user, but you won't be able to transfer their game progress over (unless the game allows that option).

More on creating accounts can be found here:
http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/security/add-family-member-on-xbox-one

As for sharing a gold subscription - if they are on an gold account's home Xbox One they will be able to share the gold subscriber's subscription. More on that can be found here:

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/game-setup/my-home-xbox

I hope this helps.

This is a great option because you as a parent will get weekly status reports on what the child accounts are doing and for how long. You will also get notifications when they purchase items and you can control what they can do and others can see about them.

Splitting an account