Overview

• YouTube is tightening Premium Family access to members who live in the same household after previously lax enforcement.
• AndroidPolice reports some users have received emails titled “Your YouTube Premium family membership will be paused.”
• The platform performs electronic location checks roughly every 30 days to verify that family members log in from one household.
• When a different location is detected, users have 14 days to contact support and prove eligibility before service reverts to ad-supported.
• The plan costs about $23 per month (€23.99 in Germany) for up to five additional people, aligning YouTube with Netflix’s 2023 account-sharing crackdown and similar moves by other streamers.