We want you to have the information you need to understand the play habits of both your account and your teen’s account.

If you have an adult EA Account, you can link your teen's account to yours to create a Family account. This lets you manage their playtime and control how much they’re spending.

What’s a teen account?

The age for a teen account varies by country.

Teen accounts have a default spending limit of zero, whether or not they’re linked to an adult account. The only way to modify those limits is to link a teen account to a parent or guardian’s Family account.

From the EA app:

1. Launch the EA app and log in to your EA Account.
2. Click the menu icon (it looks like 3 horizontal lines) in the top left corner of the app and choose Settings.
3. Click Family playtime.
4. Scroll down to Family management.
5. Click Add Teen Account.
6. Enter the email address that’s linked to your teen’s EA Account.

From your EA Account and Billing settings:

1. Go to your EA Account and Billing Settings.
2. Click on the Family tab. 
3. Click Add Teen Account.
4. Enter the email address that’s linked to your teen’s EA Account.
5. Click Submit.

We’ll send an invitation to your teen’s account. They’ll need to accept the invite within 24 hours to become part of your Family account.

You can see how much time you or your teen are spending playing games in the following ways:

To learn about your playtime

1. Launch the EA app and log into your EA Account.
2. Click the menu icon (it looks like 3 horizontal lines) in the top left corner of the app and choose Settings.
3. Click My playtime.
4. Click Manage under Playtime controls.

Here, you can view your playtime and set guidelines.

You can set different guidelines for weekdays and weekends. To set different guidelines for each day of the week, turn on Customize daily playtime limits.

To learn about your teen’s playtime

View playtime activity

1. Link your teen’s account to your EA Account if you haven’t already. Follow the steps above to do this.
2. Once they’ve accepted your invitation, go to Settings and click Family playtime to see how much time your teens have logged playing their games.

Set playtime guidelines

1. From Family playtime, find the teen account you want to set playtime guidelines for and click Manage. This will open the playtime dashboard for their account.
2. Scroll down and once again click Manage.



3. Turn on Manage player controls to set playtime guidelines for weekdays and weekends, or turn on Customize daily playtime limits to have different set guidelines for each day of the week.

There are two different Spend Limits you can change for all accounts:

• Game and expansion limit - Includes base game and deluxe edition purchases, expansion packs, and additional downloadable content (DLC).
• Microcontent limit - Includes virtual currency purchases and other purchasable content.

Your account

You can set up monthly Spend Limits for games, expansions, and microcontent. By default, your account doesn't have any Spend Limits set up.

To change your Spend Limits:

1. Go to your EA Account and Billing Settings.
2. Click on the Player Controls tab.
3. Click Edit next to Spend Limits.
4. Enter in how much you would like to spend monthly for game and expansion purchase as well as microcontent purchase.

Once you set a limit for how much you want to spend, you can check here to see how much you have left remaining for the month.

Your Family's teen accounts

Just like your own account, you can change the Spend Limits for all your teens’ accounts that you’ve linked to your Family.

Here’s how:

1. Go to your EA Account and Billing Settings.
2. Click on the Family tab.
3. Click Manage underneath the teen’s account that you want to update.
4. Click Edit next to Spend Limits.

Here, you can change the limits for games and downloadable content (DLC) as well as for microcontent purchases. You can also click Reset to Default if you want to put the settings back to how they were originally.

What isn’t controlled by Spend Limits?

The following don’t come out of your monthly spend limit:

• Purchases made with payment methods other than credit cards (e.g. EA Wallet purchases, PayPal, etc.).
• EA Play memberships and other subscriptions.
• Taxes and fees for all purchases.

We’ll charge the payment method saved to your EA Account directly for all taxes, fees, and recurring memberships and subscriptions.

The Family Activity Report is a great way to get a snapshot summary of weekly activity. It will show time spent playing games and the total cost of purchases that have been made. If there’s no activity for a given week, you won’t get a report.

Once a teen account is connected to your adult account, you’ll automatically receive the Family Activity Report on a weekly basis by email.

If you don’t want to get the report, you can adjust your email preferences in the EA app:

1. Launch the EA app and log in to your EA Account.
2. Click the menu icon (it looks like 3 lines) in the top left corner of the app and choose Settings.
3. Click Family playtime.
4. Toggle Family Activity Report off.