Share an app you bought on Google Play with your friends and family

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The Google Play app store does not allow its users to share a purchased app with anyone else. This means that if, for example, you have purchased an excellent game, then you will not be able to install it for your children: you will have to buy the game over a new one. But there is an easy way to get around this limitation.

As you probably know, all purchases made on Google Play are linked to your account. Therefore, in order for someone from your family to be able to install the programs you purchased on their device, you need to add your account to his smartphone or tablet. This is not at all difficult to do.

• Open the system settings on the device with which you want to share applications.
• Go to the "Accounts" section.
• Below the list of existing accounts, you will see the "Add Account" button. Tap it and select add a Google account on the next screen.
• Enter your account details. As a result, a second Google account will appear on the smartphone or tablet, and all applications associated with it can be freely installed on this device.
• Tap on the entry you created and turn off the synchronization of "Calendar", "Contacts", "Photos" and other data. This is necessary in order not to mix letters, events, files from different accounts on the same gadget.

Now all you have to do is install the programs you paid for on a new device. To do this, you need to open the Google Play app store, and then switch to the account you just added in the left pull-out panel.

After that, on the same panel, select the item "My applications" and freely install all the necessary programs. In the future, you can delete this additional account, but then the programs associated with it will no longer receive updates. If this is a member of your family whom you completely trust, then you can leave your account on his device (with disabled synchronization of mail, calendar and other data) and use some programs together.

But the most reasonable solution to this problem would be to create a separate, "family" account, which would be available on the devices of all family members. It is on him that in the future it is worth making purchases of new applications. This way we will have programs available for sharing, a shared mailing address, a family calendar of events, and a photo album. Moreover, each participant will be able to simultaneously use his own account for personal affairs.

It seems to me that there is a reasonable grain in this idea. And what do you think?