How Do I Find Out What Amazon Account My Alexa Is Registered To

If yous've got an Alexa device in your home, like an Echo smart speaker, anyone in your abode can use it. Merely at that place are certain disadvantages to having it associated with only one account. Mainly, information technology ways that everyone is pretty much sharing the aforementioned business relationship.

You can create what Amazon calls a "household." That means that there can be 2 adult accounts on the device. On an Echo, that ways it tin display photos and allow notifications (for example, for a to-exercise list) from both accounts. Creating a household also permits one member of the household to make a buy using the other'south account, which can be useful if 1 person has a Prime account. (You tin add together a lawmaking if you lot'd rather not allow the other household member to make purchases.) And outside of an Alexa device, having a household lets you share digital content such as ebooks and games.

There are a few limitations.

Start, you lot tin only add one other adult (or teenager) to a household account. You can add up to iv teens age xiii–17 (who can store on their ain with parents approving the purchases). You can also add together four children age 12 and nether via the Amazon Kids Plus programme, which costs $four.99 a month (or $ii.99 a month for Prime members) for a single kid and $nine.99 a month (or $6.99 a calendar month for Prime members) for upwards to iv children. Also, don't confuse this with Amazon Household, the service attached to a general Amazon account, which allows two adults, up to 4 teens, and upward to four child profiles to share an account.

Here's how to add someone to your household:

Go to the Amazon Household page on the Amazon website. (Y'all can no longer add together a household fellow member using the Amazon app.)
Select "Add Developed" (or "Add a Teen" or "Add a Child")

*Click on "Add Adult" to add someone to your household.*

Add together the proper noun and e-mail of the adult you desire to share the business relationship with. They volition be invited to join your Amazon Household. (A teen will as well get an invite; you will demand to create a kid'south contour yourself.)

Your new Household member will be send an email — *Your new household member volition be sent an email.*

Once that's washed, to go from one account to another, you lot just have to say, "Alexa, switch accounts." (If you lot've lost track of whose account you're using, you tin can say, "Alexa, identify account.")

Remove a second account

What if yous no longer want the other developed on your account? (Breakups do happen.) You can easily remove them from your household:

Go to the same "Manage your Household" page on the Amazon site. On the left, you lot'll meet icons representing you and the other member of your household.
You can either select "Leave" to get out the household yourself or "Remove" to remove somebody from your household. Be enlightened that any developed leaving or removed from a household won't be able to join another for 180 days (in other words, half dozen months).

To remove a Household member, go to the — *To remove a household member, go to the "Manage Your Household" page.*

That 180-day restriction could be a problem if, for example, you're but trying to transfer a household member to a different account or if you lot've accidentally removed somebody. In either case, information technology's a good idea to contact Amazon customer support via chat or telephone. Co-ordinate to a customer service rep I chatted with, Amazon can remove a household member without imposing the 180-day ban if requested. And if you lot've already removed 1, it can reset the account and then that yous can add some other earlier the 6-month menstruum is up.

Update March 18th, 2021, 2:15PM ET: This article was originally published on November 19th, 2019, and has been updated to arrange changes in Amazon's Household plan.