Leave a family

Leave a Drime Family: your account and files stay yours, you go back to your own storage and can keep a copy of what you added to the Family Room.

Updated October 19, 2026Web

A member can leave their family at any time. The manager cannot: they hand the family over or dissolve it.

#Leave the family

On your family page, click Leave the family.
You can also click your avatar, then Settings, choose Family and click Leave.
Keep or clear Keep a copy of what I added to the Family Room.
The copy goes into your own Drive, in a folder named after the Room, and counts toward your own space.
Confirm.
You left the family confirms it.

Your account and every file stay yours.
You go back to your own storage. If you are above it, nothing is deleted: you just cannot add files until there is room.
You lose access to the Family Room. What you added stays in the Room in every case. If you left Keep a copy of what I added to the Family Room checked, you also find a copy in your own Drive.
The manager is told, if their e-mail setting for it is on.

A child's account with the Stay in the family parental control cannot leave on its own. See Parental controls.

Message	What to do
As the manager, dissolve the family instead of leaving it.	Hand the family over to stay as a member, or dissolve it.
The copy is larger than the space left in your own storage. Free up some space first, or leave without a copy: the files stay in the Family Room.	Free up space, or clear the copy option.
Only the manager can take your account out of the family	Your account has the Stay in the family control. Ask the manager.

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