Set up Family Sharing

You lot can starting time a new family group and invite people to join, or you tin can join someone else's family unit group.

Family unit Sharing makes information technology like shooting fish in a barrel for up to six family members to share music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, subscriptions including iCloud+, and more than, all without sharing an Apple ID.1 Y'all tin fix an Apple ID for kids, set permissions remotely with Screen Time, and approve spending and downloads from a parent'due south device with Enquire to Buy.two You can besides set upwards Apple Cash for a child or teen, or set them upward with an Apple Watch. Larn more about what you tin can practise with Family unit Sharing.

  • First a family unit group

  • Invite family members

  • Join a family group

Commencement a family group

One adult in the family — the family organizer — can set up up Family Sharing for the group from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. If purchase sharing is turned on, the family organizer pays for family unit members' purchases and must have a valid payment method on file. Check which payment methods are available in your country 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 unit Sharing, and so tap Fix Your Family.
  4. Follow the onscreen instructions to set up your family and invite your family members.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Family Sharing.
    Mac showing Family Sharing in System Preferences.
  2. Ostend the Apple tree ID that yous want to use 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. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click iCloud.
  2. Confirm the Apple ID that y'all want to use for Family Sharing, and make sure that Share My Purchases is selected.
  3. Follow the onscreen instructions.

Invite people to bring together your family

You tin exist a role of but one family unit at a fourth dimension.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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

On your Mac

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

If you lot're using macOS Mojave or earlier:

  1. Choose Apple tree carte du jour  > System Preferences, and so click iCloud.
  2. Click Manage Family.
  3. Click the add family unit member button (+), and then follow the onscreen instructions.

If you have multiple Apple IDs, you can invite each of your accounts to the group, and then you tin share purchases from your other Apple IDs with your family.

Come across if your family member accepted the invitation

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

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on

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

On your Mac

  1. Cull Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Family unit Sharing. Or if you're using macOS Mojave or before, choose Apple menu  > Organization Preferences > iCloud, then click Manage Family.
  2. To see the status of the invitation, select that person'due south name.
  3. If you need to resend the invitation, select Resend Invitation.

Join a family group

Accept or decline an invitation to join a family directly from your device. You'll become an invitation past email or in a text message. And then yous can respond correct from the invitation. If you lot miss the electronic mail or text invitation, respond from your device Settings or System Preferences.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on

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

To accept an invitation, follow the onscreen instructions. When you lot join a family, you might be asked to ostend your business relationship information and to opt-in to any features or services your family prepare.

On your Mac

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

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

If you can't have the invitation

If yous can't accept the invitation, meet if someone else joined a family with your Apple ID. Remember, y'all can but join one family at a time, and yous can simply switch to a dissimilar family group once per year.

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

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