Xbox Game Pass Ultimate - what's the optimal way for the family usage?

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 YOUTHMANIFESTO

You can share your game pass subscription to another Xbox console for a total of two, the way to do it is enabling home Xbox one the desired console

(Keep in mind that if the subscription is in your adult/ main account, to use the benefits on two consoles you need to let your son plays with your main profile)

In case you need to know how game sharing works, check this link:
https://support.xbox.com/help/hardware-network/...

On PC is different. If you want to share the games included in your subscription you need to sign in with your account on both Xbox app and Microsoft store.

After that download the desired games using the Xbox app, then your kid can sign in with their account and play the downloaded games.
If they want to get a new game you need to use your account again and start the download

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If you want to skip all that, it's enough if you purchase game pass ultimate on each account (for a total of 3 subscriptions if you also play, or 2 for your kids)

Also, right now Microsoft is testing a new Game Pass family plan. But isn't available yet for all countries
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/subscriptio...

Put the xbox game pass ultimate under one of their accounts. So for example.. Son#1 has game pass ultimate make his home xbox as the xbox that son#2 uses that way anyone that uses that xbox can use the game pass ultimate without having him sign in since its his home xbox.. what this means is make the xbox one x son#1 home console.. then have son#1 play on the xbox one and have son#2 play on the xbox one X or vice versa.. this is the only way they can both play at the same time using one game pass ultimate account. Because son#1 will have to sign into the xbox one so he can play therefore it wont kick anyone out of the game pass on the xbox one x since thats his home xbox. If theres another way i dont know about it. Because we have 3 xboxs and we can use 2 of them this way at the same time so my son and daughter can both play against each other but unfortunately theres no way to do it on more then 2. It sucks for family's with more then 2 xboxs also sucks when you have more then 2 ppl that want to use the game pass ultimate at the same time. Microsoft needs to change this, my suggestion would be for them to make a family game pass ultimate subscription where you can add your family members up to say 5 or 6 members to your family subscription and they can use game pass ultimate anywhere anytime. That would be nice. But unfortunately this is what we are stuck with for now. Maybe it'll change in the future

But my subscription is for Game Pass Ultimate and not for Game Pass for PC... My family should have access to the games, right? Otherwise, what is the family plan for?

Hi there!

Absolutely yes! The Game Pass Friends and Family is still an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. So you should still get all the benefits from the Ultimate.

Oh, if this is the family game pass, it's different, but what you will be able to share is just the game pass library and not the games that you own. I'm sorry for that.

As per the Xbox support site:

"With the Friends & Family plan, all five members enjoy the benefits of Game Pass Ultimate, with their own unique access to all Xbox Game Pass Ultimate games, content, and benefits, regardless of what device they play on. All the people you invite can play at the same time—you can even play together in the same game. Plus, you can include friends and family outside your household."

For your reference, you can check this link: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/subscriptio...