Quick Guide to STEAM FAMILY (Better Version of Family Sharing) - How to Enable & Use Steam Family

hello in this video I'm going to show you how we can use the Family Management function on Steam this is a new feature that has been recently added to steam and this is pretty much a better version of steam family sharing I'm going to show you how we can enable and use this feature how we can create a family and how we can invite someone to the family and then I'm going to also explain the differences um between these two features so the first thing that we need to do is go to the top right corner and click on Steam and and then we want to go to settings in the settings we want to go to interface and over here we have client beta participation we need to select either steam families beta or steam beta update I'm going to choose steam families beta both of these options work and you need to enable this here in order to use this feature as it is still in the better version once we have that now we can go to the top right corner and click on our name and then we want to go to Account Details and then in the Account Details click on family management and then we have the whole page related to The Family Management over here we can either join a family or create a new family so we going to click on create family then we need to enter the name of the family and now we can click create keep in mind that if your account is limited you are not able to create a family if you can create a family it looks like this this is your management page and over here you can click on invite members in order to add new members then we can choose who do we want to invite and then we have an option to invite as adult or invite as child in the library tab we can see games that are included for the family as well as those that are excluded if you have a child in your family over here you can see the requests made by the child we can also check the Playtime of a child in the family and the history of the Family Management if you want to manage those that are already in the family you can click on this Arrow over here in order to open some options so what is is the main difference between this and the family sharing the old one as you may already know if you have family sharing enabled with someone you can play their games or at least most of them as long as they are not playing anything they can be offline or online on Steam but they can't be in game if that person also has other people in the family sharing and someone else is playing a game from The Borrowed library then you are not able to borrow the game either so in some situations it is very limiting with the new family system you can play games purchased by other family members whether or not they are playing something at the time but that's not all the family library now includes the amount of copies purchased by all family members as you can see over here there we can see the copies so let's say there are three members in a family you and two friends both of your friends own a copy of a game now two family members can play that game at the same time it doesn't really matter who bought these copies they are now playable by anyone in the family and in the meantime the owner of the copy can play something else too without any hindrance there are also parental control options so if you are parent you can choose the games available for your child restrict access to store or community on Steam choose playtime limits or even recover a password for the children's account children on the other hand can make requests they can ask adult family members to purchase a game and you can either accept or the client if you want to read more about the new steam family system you can go to steam hover over store and then click on news and then you should be able to find the article somewhere over here and then you can read all about this new feature over here and that's it thanks for watching leave a like And subscribe to my channel and see you in my next videos bye

Channel: Games & Apps Tutorials

Views: 112,173

Keywords: tutorial, guide, how, to, steam

Id: 9S7c93xzVlU

Length: 3min 50sec (230 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 19 2024