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Alternatively, set up a confirmation code for authenticating purchases.

Since other members in the household can use the credit card linked to your Amazon account for purchases, consider disabling voice purchasing on Amazon Alexa. For children aged 12 or lower, you must create their profiles manually.Īfter you set up Household Profiles, you can switch between accounts by saying, "Alexa, switch accounts." To find out which account Alexa is currently using, say, "Alexa, which account is this?" You can add teens to your household using the same steps. They will need to accept the invitation to join your household.Īlternatively, you can go to the Amazon Household website on your PC and add an adult, teen, or child to share your Prime account and Echo. Invite a family member to share your Echo.An overview of Amazon Household displays. Select Settings and choose Household Profile.You can add one other adult and four children or teenagers to Household Profiles. If it is unavailable in your area, your only option is to use Alexa Profiles to share your Echo or Echo Show. Hold down the action button on the Echo for 5 seconds.Household Profiles are only available in selected regions.

The Echo should appear in the Alexa web app, as it's was automatically attached to your Amazon account when you ordered.

Wait for the Echo's ring light to turn orange.

The Alexa will immediately start flashing blue.

If you're not already logged in, hit log in. Take the Alexa out of the box, put in the cable, then plug it in.

Go to (opens in new tab) in your browser.

Setting up using your browser is fairly straightforward: Unless you're a weird outlier like me and using a smaller browser like Opera, you'll probably be supported - if your browser's not, Edge will work just fine, and that goes for the new Chromium-based version of Edge, too.

Setting up other Amazon Echo devices will follow the same process, but for the purposes of this guide, we used the standard, 2nd generation Amazon Echo.īefore you get too excited, there are a couple of caveats the first is that you'll have to set it up through your desktop browser. How to set up an Amazon Echo with Windows 10 You can answer the door and check your cameras using the Echo Show and the Echo Spot. If you're looking for an extended Echo experience, the Show built-in displays can show you the time, weather, make video calls and take advantage of skills like the Ring Doorbell.