Set up Family Sharing

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

Family unit Sharing makes it piece of cake for upwardly to six family members to share music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, subscriptions including iCloud+, and more, all without sharing an Apple ID.1 Y'all can set an Apple ID for kids, set permissions remotely with Screen Fourth dimension, and approve spending and downloads from a parent's device with Enquire to Buy.2 You tin can also set up Apple Greenbacks for a child or teen, or gear up them up with an Apple Picket. Learn more than near what yous tin practise with Family unit Sharing.

  • First a family grouping

  • Invite family members

  • Bring together a family unit group

Offset a family group

1 developed in the family unit — the family organizer — can gear up Family unit Sharing for the group from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, 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. Check which payment methods are available in your country or region.3

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Get to Settings.
  2. Tap your name.
    iPhone showing Family Sharing in Settings.
  3. Tap Family Sharing, and then tap Set Up 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 ID that yous want to use for Family Sharing, and make sure that Share My Purchases is selected.
  3. Follow the onscreen instructions.

If you lot're using macOS Mojave or earlier:

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

Invite people to join your family

You can be a part of merely one family unit at a fourth dimension.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on

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

On your Mac

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

If you're using macOS Mojave or before:

  1. Choose Apple bill of fare  > System Preferences, then click iCloud.
  2. Click Manage Family.
  3. Click the add together family unit fellow member button (+), so follow the onscreen instructions.

If you lot accept multiple Apple IDs, you lot can invite each of your accounts to the group, so y'all tin share purchases from your other Apple IDs with your family.

Meet if your family fellow member accustomed the invitation

After you send the invitation, y'all tin can check its condition.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple tree card  > System Preferences, then click Family Sharing. Or if you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple card  > System Preferences > iCloud, and then click Manage Family unit.
  2. To see the condition of the invitation, select that person's proper noun.
  3. If yous need to resend the invitation, select Resend Invitation.

Join a family unit group

Take or decline an invitation to join a family directly from your device. You'll get an invitation by electronic mail or in a text message. And then you can respond right from the invitation. If you miss the email or text invitation, reply from your device Settings or System Preferences.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Tap your proper noun.
  3. Tap Invitations.

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

On your Mac

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

To accept an invitation, follow the onscreen instructions. When you join a family, you might be asked to confirm your business relationship data and to opt-in to any features or services your family set up.

If you can't take the invitation

If you tin can't take the invitation, meet if someone else joined a family with your Apple tree ID. Remember, you tin only join 1 family at a fourth dimension, and you tin can but switch to a different family grouping in one case per twelvemonth.

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

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