SimpliSafe is responsible for some of the most popular home security systems on the market. Not only are they relatively affordable, but they’re also flexible enough to fit into any home. From a small studio to a spacious villa, SimpliSafe makes it easy to protect your property.
However, there is a small drawback with these systems, as you currently cannot add family members to your SimpliSafe profile. This feature is often found in other smart home products, allowing you to set limits on what certain family members can access while allowing them to take advantage of the various benefits the system has to offer.
While you can’t add additional users to your SimpliSafe profile, there is a fairly simple solution that allows your whole family to access the account on their own devices. This is what you need to know.
How to access your SimpliSafe profile from multiple devices
SimpliSafe uses single user login, which means you cannot add secondary users to your system. However, by enabling multi-factor authentication on multiple devices, you can allow everyone in your family to use everything SimpliSafe has to offer.
Note that this means that everyone will share the same account and password, so be sure to use a password that is not used for non-SimpliSafe websites or accounts.
Here’s how to set up multi-factor authentication on multiple devices.
Step 1 – Sign in to the SimpliSafe smartphone app.
Step 2: Go to Menu.
Step 3: Choose Manage your account.
Step 4: Choose multi-factor authentication.
Step 5 – Here you will be able to enter additional phone numbers for multi-factor authentication, allowing other members of your family to sign in to the account.
When will SimpliSafe add multi-user support?
Unfortunately, it’s unclear if SimpliSafe will ever add the ability to enroll multiple users on a single system. Popular message boards are inundated with requests from the community asking for this popular feature, but nothing seems to have changed over the years.
The multi-factor authentication steps above are a solid solution, but far from perfect. For example, you don’t want to give this information to a contractor or guest because they will have access to sensitive information about your system. If SimpliSafe allows you to set up guest profiles, they can only access the parts of the system that you want.
About a year ago, a community manager on the official SimpliSafe forums noted that the feature was “in development,” but few announcements have been made since then. We hope to see the introduction of multi-user support in the near future.
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