Set up Family Sharing

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

Family unit Sharing makes it like shooting fish in a barrel for up to half-dozen family unit members to share music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, subscriptions including iCloud+, and more than, all without sharing an Apple ID.1 You tin set up up an Apple tree ID for kids, set permissions remotely with Screen Fourth dimension, and corroborate spending and downloads from a parent's device with Inquire to Purchase.2 You can as well set upwards Apple tree Cash for a child or teen, or fix them up with an Apple Watch. Learn more about what y'all tin do with Family Sharing.

  • Offset a family unit group

  • Invite family members

  • Join a family grouping

Kickoff a family group

One adult in the family unit — the family organizer — can prepare Family 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, then tap Set Upwards Your Family.
  4. Follow the onscreen instructions to ready up your family and invite your family members.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple menu  > Organization Preferences, then click Family Sharing.
    Mac showing Family Sharing in System Preferences.
  2. Ostend 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 yous're using macOS Mojave or before:

  1. Cull Apple carte  > System Preferences, then click iCloud.
  2. Confirm the Apple tree ID that you desire to apply 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 tin be a part of but one family unit at a time.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on

  1. Get to Settings.
  2. Tap your name, so tap Family unit Sharing.
  3. Tap Add together Member.
  4. If your kid doesn't have an Apple ID, tap Create an Account for a Kid. But 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 menu  > Arrangement Preferences.
  2. Click Family unit Sharing.
  3. Click Add Family unit 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 unit.
  3. Click the add family unit fellow member button (+), then follow the onscreen instructions.

If you have multiple Apple tree IDs, you tin invite each of your accounts to the group, so you lot tin share purchases from your other Apple IDs with your family.

See if your family member accepted the invitation

Later you send the invitation, you can cheque its status.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, and so click Family Sharing. Or if you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences > iCloud, then click Manage Family.
  2. To see the status of the invitation, select that person'due south proper 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 direct from your device. You'll go an invitation by email or in a text message. So you can respond right from the invitation. If y'all miss the email or text invitation, respond from your device Settings or Arrangement Preferences.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Go 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 confirm your account data and to opt-in to any features or services your family ready.

On your Mac

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

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

If yous can't take the invitation

If you lot tin't accept the invitation, see if someone else joined a family unit with your Apple ID. Remember, you can only bring together i family at a time, and y'all tin can only switch to a unlike family unit grouping in one case per yr.

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

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