Ready Family Sharing

You can beginning a new family unit group and invite people to bring together, or you can join someone else's family unit grouping.

Family Sharing makes it easy for up to six family members to share music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, subscriptions including iCloud+, and more, all without sharing an Apple ID.1 You tin fix an Apple ID for kids, prepare permissions remotely with Screen Time, and approve spending and downloads from a parent's device with Enquire to Purchase.two Yous can likewise set up Apple tree Greenbacks for a child or teen, or ready them upward with an Apple Watch. Learn more about what you lot tin can do with Family Sharing.

  • Start a family unit group

  • Invite family members

  • Join a family group

Starting time a family unit group

1 developed in the family — the family organizer — can ready Family Sharing for the grouping from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. If purchase sharing is turned on, the family unit organizer pays for family members' purchases and must have a valid payment method on file. Check which payment methods are available in your state or region.3

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Tap your name.
    iPhone showing Family Sharing in Settings.
  3. Tap Family Sharing, and then tap Prepare Your Family.
  4. Follow the onscreen instructions to set upwardly your family unit and invite your family members.

On your Mac

  1. Cull Apple carte  > System Preferences, then click Family Sharing.
    Mac showing Family Sharing in System Preferences.
  2. Confirm the Apple tree ID that you want to use for Family Sharing, and make sure that Share My Purchases is selected.
  3. Follow the onscreen instructions.

If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier:

  1. Choose Apple menu  > Organization Preferences, then click iCloud.
  2. Confirm the Apple ID that you want to use for Family Sharing, and brand sure that Share My Purchases is selected.
  3. Follow the onscreen instructions.

Invite people to join your family

You can exist a role of but 1 family unit at a time.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Tap your name, then tap Family Sharing.
  3. Tap Add together Member.
  4. If your child doesn't take an Apple ID, tap Create an Business relationship for a Kid. Merely if your child already has an Apple ID, tap Invite People. They tin enter their Apple ID password on your device to accept the invitation.
  5. Follow the onscreen instructions.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple tree menu  > Arrangement Preferences.
  2. Click Family unit Sharing.
  3. Click Add Family Member, and so follow the onscreen instructions.

If y'all're using macOS Mojave or earlier:

  1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click iCloud.
  2. Click Manage Family.
  3. Click the add family unit member push (+), then follow the onscreen instructions.

If you accept multiple Apple IDs, you can invite each of your accounts to the grouping, and so yous can share purchases from your other Apple tree IDs with your family unit.

See if your family member accepted the invitation

After you send the invitation, you tin cheque its status.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect

  1. Get to Settings.
  2. Tap your proper noun.
  3. Tap Family Sharing.
  4. To see the status of the invitation, select that person'south name.
  5. If you lot need to resend the invitation, select Resend Invitation.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple tree menu  > System Preferences, then click Family Sharing. Or if you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, cull Apple tree carte du jour  > System Preferences > iCloud, then click Manage Family unit.
  2. To see the status of the invitation, select that person'due south name.
  3. If yous demand to resend the invitation, select Resend Invitation.

Bring together a family group

Accept or decline an invitation to bring together a family unit directly from your device. You'll become an invitation by e-mail or in a text message. Then you tin respond right from the invitation. If you miss the email or text invitation, respond from your device Settings or System Preferences.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon

  1. Become to Settings.
  2. Tap your name.
  3. Tap Invitations.

To accept an invitation, follow the onscreen instructions. When you bring together a family, yous might be asked to confirm your account information and to opt-in to any features or services your family set up.

On your Mac

Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, and then click Family Sharing. If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu  > Arrangement Preferences > iCloud, then click Manage Family.

To accept an invitation, follow the onscreen instructions. When you join a family unit, yous might exist asked to confirm your account information and to opt-in to any features or services your family gear up up.

If you lot tin can't take the invitation

If you can't take the invitation, see if someone else joined a family with your Apple ID. Remember, yous tin can simply join i family at a time, and you tin only switch to a dissimilar family group once per yr.

  1. Not all content is eligible to be shared.
  2. Age varies by country or region.
  3. Accepted forms of payment vary past state or region.

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