Prepare Family Sharing

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

Family Sharing makes information technology easy for upwards to vi family unit members to share music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, subscriptions including iCloud+, and more, all without sharing an Apple ID.1 You can fix an Apple tree ID for kids, ready permissions remotely with Screen Fourth dimension, and approve spending and downloads from a parent's device with Ask to Buy.2 Yous can also fix Apple Cash for a child or teen, or set them up with an Apple Sentry. Learn more well-nigh what y'all can do with Family unit Sharing.

  • Start a family unit group

  • Invite family unit members

  • Join a family group

Start a family grouping

I developed in the family — the family organizer — can gear up Family Sharing for the group from their iPhone, iPad, iPod impact, or Mac. If buy sharing is turned on, the family organizer pays for family members' purchases and must have a valid payment method on file. Cheque which payment methods are available in your country or region.three

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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

On your Mac

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

If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier:

  1. Cull Apple carte du jour  > System Preferences, then click iCloud.
  2. Confirm the Apple ID that y'all desire to use for Family unit Sharing, and brand sure that Share My Purchases is selected.
  3. Follow the onscreen instructions.

Invite people to join your family

You lot can be a part of simply ane family at a time.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on

  1. Get to Settings.
  2. Tap your proper noun, and then tap Family Sharing.
  3. Tap Add Fellow member.
  4. If your child doesn't have an Apple ID, tap Create an Account for a Child. But if your child already has an Apple ID, tap Invite People. They tin can enter their Apple ID password on your device to take the invitation.
  5. Follow the onscreen instructions.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple tree menu  > System Preferences.
  2. Click Family Sharing.
  3. Click Add together Family Fellow member, then follow the onscreen instructions.

If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier:

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

If y'all have multiple Apple IDs, you tin can invite each of your accounts to the grouping, and then you can share purchases from your other Apple tree IDs with your family unit.

Run across if your family fellow member accustomed the invitation

Subsequently you send the invitation, you can check its status.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on

  1. Become to Settings.
  2. Tap your name.
  3. Tap Family unit Sharing.
  4. To come across the condition of the invitation, select that person's name.
  5. If yous need to resend the invitation, select Resend Invitation.

On your Mac

  1. Cull Apple carte  > System Preferences, so click Family Sharing. Or if you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple tree menu  > System Preferences > iCloud, then click Manage Family.
  2. To meet the status of the invitation, select that person'southward proper noun.
  3. If you need to resend the invitation, select Resend Invitation.

Bring together a family grouping

Accept or decline an invitation to join a family directly from your device. Yous'll get an invitation past email or in a text message. Then you can 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 affect

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

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

On your Mac

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

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

If y'all can't accept the invitation

If y'all can't take the invitation, see if someone else joined a family with your Apple ID. Call up, you can only join i family at a time, and y'all tin merely switch to a different family unit grouping once per year.

  1. Non all content is eligible to be shared.
  2. Historic period varies past country or region.
  3. Accepted forms of payment vary by state or region.

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