Set up Family Sharing

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

Family unit Sharing makes it piece of cake 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.ane You can gear up up an Apple ID for kids, set permissions remotely with Screen Time, and approve spending and downloads from a parent's device with Inquire to Buy.2 You can also set upwardly Apple Cash for a child or teen, or set them up with an Apple Sentinel. Learn more most what you can do with Family unit Sharing.

  • Start a family grouping

  • Invite family members

  • Join a family unit group

Start a family grouping

1 adult in the family — the family organizer — can gear up Family Sharing for the grouping from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. If purchase 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. Go to Settings.
  2. Tap your proper name.
    iPhone showing Family Sharing in Settings.
  3. Tap Family Sharing, then tap Gear up Upwards Your Family.
  4. Follow the onscreen instructions to gear up your family unit and invite your family members.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple tree menu  > Arrangement Preferences, then click Family Sharing.
    Mac showing Family Sharing in System Preferences.
  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.

If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier:

  1. Choose Apple carte  > System Preferences, then click iCloud.
  2. Confirm the Apple ID that you desire 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 unit

You tin be a part of only one family at a fourth dimension.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on

  1. Get to Settings.
  2. Tap your name, and then tap Family Sharing.
  3. Tap Add Fellow member.
  4. If your child doesn't take an Apple ID, tap Create an Account for a Child. 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. Cull Apple bill of fare  > Organization Preferences.
  2. Click Family unit Sharing.
  3. Click Add together Family Member, and so follow the onscreen instructions.

If you lot're using macOS Mojave or earlier:

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

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

See if your family unit member accepted the invitation

Afterwards you send the invitation, you lot can cheque its status.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on

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

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple carte  > Arrangement Preferences, so click Family Sharing. Or if yous're using macOS Mojave or before, choose Apple tree bill of fare  > System Preferences > iCloud, then click Manage Family.
  2. To encounter the status of the invitation, select that person'southward name.
  3. If you demand 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 lot'll get an invitation by email or in a text message. Then you tin answer right from the invitation. If you lot miss the email or text invitation, reply 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 take an invitation, follow the onscreen instructions. When y'all join a family, you might be asked to confirm your business relationship information and to opt-in to any features or services your family set.

On your Mac

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

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

If you tin't accept the invitation

If you can't have the invitation, see if someone else joined a family with your Apple tree ID. Remember, you can only bring together one family at a fourth dimension, and you tin can but switch to a different family unit grouping once per year.

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

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