If you’re like most people, you probably have at least one Amazon Echo device in your home. Echo is a voice-activated assistant that can do things like play music, answer questions, and control smart home devices. If you’ve ever wanted to invite a household member to use your Echo, there’s a way to do it. Here’s how:

  1. Open the Alexa app on your phone or computer. If you don’t have the Alexa app installed, you can download it from Amazon.com.
  2. Tap the “Settings” button in the top left corner of the screen.
  3. Under “General,” tap “Invite Household Members.”
  4. Enter the email address or phone number of the person you want to invite and tap “Send Invitation.”
  5. The person you invited will receive an email with instructions on how to set up their Echo device and start using it! ..

Why Do I Want To Do This?

In addition to sharing music you also can share shopping lists, to-dos, calendar entries, and other useful features available on the Echo/Alexa system, perfect for ensuring that whoever does the shopping has full access to everything added to the collective shopping list and other shared household tasks.

Now that we’ve invited the user, set up the profile sharing, and accepted the terms of service, it’s time to take a look at how to actually use multiple profiles on the Echo.

Switching Between Profiles

Once you’ve completed all the steps in the previous section it’s easy to jump between profiles. When using commands related to the profile system you can use the word “account” or “profile” interchangeable as Alexa responds to both terms. We prefer using “profile” as it most naturally fits with the function of the profile system on the Echo.

First, if you’re not sure which profile you’re currently on you can say:

In turn, you’ll get a response like “In Jason’s profile”. You can then switch between profiles one of two ways by saying:

Alexa, switch to [Name]’s profile.

Once you’ve switched profiles you can use all the commands you would normally use when speaking with Alexa but the commands will have access to the content of the currently active profile. (Thus, if your spouse or roommate is the huge music fan who does all the music purchasing, you’d want to switch to their profile when using the Echo as a jukebox).

With that in mind let’s take a look at removing someone (if you’re certain you wish to remove them).

In addition to removing users yourself the users you’ve added can also remove themselves by repeating the above steps. (So if you found this tutorial because you’re trying to remove yourself from your roommate’s Alexa-enabled device you can repeat the above steps an instead select “Leave” beside your name to initiate the removal process yourself.)