Audible kids account on android

July 23, 2024 1:58 PM

The internet unhelpfully tells me about Amazon households but no way on how to actually link them. Help?

The situation is this. My wife and son both have Android phones, my wife has an audible subscription.

The website seems to imply you can use Amazon households to share books, but how? It tells you to add a child on the household, but once having done this it is entirely unclear what comes next!

Should she login on his phone then somehow switch to child mode? It seems very confusing in a way that Spotify household is not.

We are in the UK is relevant

posted by Cannon Fodder to Technology (5 answers total)

When you share between Household accounts, you are sharing between separate Amazon accounts (ie you are saying Amazon account [e-mail] and Amazon account [e-mail] are in the same Household, and can share each others books). There is no "child" Amazon account, the closest is on Amazon Fire tablets and Kindles which have child profiles linked to a regular Amazon account. We share Amazon ebooks using a Kindle which can be set to a child profile and then you share the ebook with that profile. I don't use Audible but is there a way to set up a child profile in the app when logged into the adult's account?
posted by EndsOfInvention at 3:57 PM on July 23

This page explains a lot of the things you are asking about, including exactly how to add other household members. However it is on the Amazon U.S. page and I am not sure exactly how all the translated to Amazon.co.uk. I think you can sign in to amazon.com & amazon.co.uk with the same username/password though - so perhaps it is all transferable.
posted by flug at 7:28 PM on July 23

In the UK you can manage it from here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/myh/households (this is the same link as flug's just on amazon uk).
posted by samj at 2:53 AM on July 24

Response by poster: Thanks, as I stated in the question I am aware of the household link, the issue is that for a child account you do not add an email, just a child's name... So what do I do next?
posted by Cannon Fodder at 5:50 AM on July 24

The family sharing situation is pretty bad on Amazon (Google's not much better).

I think kids profiles only work on amazon devices, and in the Amazon Kids app. The kids+ app doesn't work without a kids+ subscription (~5 GBP a month).

A fake adult account for the kid added as an adult to the family, or just logging into audible with the main account might also be workarounds.

I ended up giving my daughter a cheap echo dot device just for listening to audible stories. I think the cheapest now is the echo pop - they regularly drop to ~20GBP.
posted by samj at 5:00 AM on July 25 [1 favorite]