How To Add More One Phone To Google Play Account?

[MikeWill]

I just bought myself a new phone and I want to add it to my Google Play account at: https://play.google.com/ , so that I will be able to manage both phones individually. If I bought some apps for my first phone, is it possible to install them on my second phone, or I should purchase the same app again?

One phone (SGS3) I'll use myself, the other (Galaxy Mini 2) my daughter will be using.

[thaimite]

Just log the new phoe in to the same Gmaila account.

All your paid apps can be on both devices at the same time or seperately.

No problems at all.

Tip.

The easiest way to put the same aps on you new device is to go to your google account where you will see all your free and paid apps and then send the ones you want to the new device from there rather than searching for them again o the play store

Note both phones can be managed seperatey from the same web page. They do not have to have the same apps.

This is handy if you have a tab and a phone and want different apps on each

Edited December 23, 2012 by thaimite

[Pib]

Yeap, whatever google account name you use on google play for your other phone, enter that google account name into your new phone and log onto google play using that account name. That's how I have my smartphone, wife's smartphone, and two tablets setup...google play is set on all four devices to log onto google play using my one particular google account name that I use for google play. On the wife's phone she also has her google account name entered for Gmail and all that stuff, but my google account name is also entered in her phone (with my google account set not to sync for gmail, contacts, calendar,etc., google play still keeps the apps update....it just my contacts/calendar/gmail are set not to sync to the wife's phone). This way you only need to pay for an App once. And of course you can manage/install/delete/etc., the Apps on all your devices from one google play account versus multiple accounts.

Now of course you only want to do this on devices you control otherwise people could use your google play account to buy Apps, people could access/change your google account data like gmail, etc. Might not be the best approach to use with the GF of the Day phone or your BFF phone.

[Chicog]

Why wouldn't you sync your contacts? I use GMail to back them up.

[Pib]

Why wouldn't you sync your contacts? I use GMail to back them up.

I don't want (nor the wife) my contacts mixed in with the wife's contacts on her phone....and/or by accident she deletes some of my contacts. But of course on my phone I sync my contacts.

[Chicog]

Why wouldn't you sync your contacts? I use GMail to back them up.

I don't want (nor the wife) my contacts mixed in with the wife's contacts on her phone....and/or by accident she deletes some of my contacts. But of course on my phone I sync my contacts.

Ah, OK I'm with you now.