Iphone sharing with family

Set up Family Sharing

Use these steps to set up Family Sharing. You can start a new family group and invite people to join, or you can join someone else’s family group.

Start a family group

Invite family members

Join a family group

Family Sharing makes it easy for up to six family members to share music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, an iCloud storage plan, subscriptions, and more all without sharing an Apple ID. 1 You can set up an Apple ID for kids, set permissions remotely with Screen Time, and approve spending and downloads from a parent’s device with Ask to Buy. 2 You can also set up Apple Cash for a child or teen, or set them up with an Apple Watch. Learn more about what you can do with Family Sharing.

Start a family group

One adult in the family — the family organizer — can set up Family Sharing for the group from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. If you turn on purchase sharing, you’ll be asked to confirm that you agree to pay for purchases initiated by the family members you invite and that you have a valid payment method on file. Valid payment methods for setting up Family Sharing include credit cards and debit cards. 3

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap your name.
   
3. Tap Family Sharing, 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.
   
2. Confirm the Apple ID that you want to use for Family 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 you want to use for Family Sharing, and make sure that Share My Purchases is selected.
3. Follow the onscreen instructions.

Invite people to join your family

If you haven’t already, you can create an Apple ID for a child and add them to your group. If your family member already has an Apple ID, use the steps below to add someone to your family group. You can be a part of only one family at a time.

If your family member is with you, they can enter their Apple ID password on your device to accept the invitation. You can also send them an invitation, and they can accept from their device.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap your name, then tap Family Sharing.
3. Tap Add Member.
4. Enter your family member’s name or email address and follow the onscreen instructions.
5. Choose whether you’d like to send an invitation via Messages or to invite them in person. Then follow the onscreen instructions.

On your Mac

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences.
2. Click Family Sharing.
3. Click Add Family 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 you have multiple Apple IDs in the iTunes Store and the App Store, you can invite each of your accounts to the group, so you can share purchases from your other Apple IDs with your family.

See if your family member accepted the invitation

After you send the invitation, you can check its status under the person’s name.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Go to Settings, tap your name, then tap Family Sharing.

Then select that person’s name to see the status of the invitation. If you need to resend the invitation, select Resend Invitation.

On your Mac

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

Then select that person’s name to see the status of the invitation. 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 get an invitation sent to you by email or in a text message. Then you can respond right from the invitation. If you miss the email or text invitation, no problem. You can respond from your device Settings or System Preferences.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Go to Settings, tap your name, then tap Invitations.

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

On your Mac

Choose Apple menu  > System 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 account information and to opt-in to any features or services your family set up.

If you can’t accept the invitation

If you can’t accept the invitation, see if someone else joined a family with your Apple ID. Remember, you can only join one family at a time, and you can only switch to a different family group once per year.

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Family Sharing.
Share your favorite things with your favorite people.

Family Sharing lets you and up to five other family members share access to amazing Apple services like Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple News+, Apple Arcade, and Apple Card. 1 Your group can also share iTunes, Apple Books, and App Store purchases, an iCloud storage plan, and a family photo album. You can even help locate each other’s missing devices.

Getting set up is simple.

Choose what you want to share, invite your family members to join, and enjoy each other’s digital company.

Get organized.

One adult in your family — the organizer — invites all the other members to join and sets up accounts for anyone under 13. 2 Once family members join, Family Sharing is set up on everyone’s devices automatically. The group then chooses which services and features they’d like to use and share.

Keep everyone entertained.

Whether it’s music, TV and movies, news, or games, Apple entertainment services have something for everyone. And with Family Sharing, your whole group can share the same subscriptions. Family members access each service from their own Apple IDs, so they see only their own content, preferences, and recommendations — not the whole family’s.

Apple TV+

Original shows and movies from the world’s best storytellers.

Apple Music

Over 75 million songs ready to stream or download, ad‑free.

Apple News+

Hundreds of magazines and leading newspapers at your fingertips.

Apple Arcade

Unlimited access to more than 200 games. No ads, no in-app purchases.

Share an iCloud storage plan with your family.

Your entire family can share a single iCloud storage plan large enough to store everyone’s photos, videos, and files. Each person’s files and documents remain private, but it’s easy to see how much storage everyone is using. If you need more space, you can upgrade to a larger plan at any time.

• 200GB $2.99/month Shareable with family
• 2TB $9.99/month Shareable with family

Apple One

Bundle iCloud
with up to five other great services.
And enjoy more for less.

All your family’s purchases on all your family’s devices.

When you set up purchase sharing, everyone in the group gets immediate access to the songs, albums, movies, TV shows, books, and apps purchased by family members who choose to share them. New purchases appear in the Purchased tab in Apple Books, the App Store, or iTunes for each family member. Just select the family member whose collection you’d like to browse, then download or play the content you choose. Other family members can access your collection in the same way. If you want to keep some purchases private, you can choose to hide individual items.

Making purchases is easy. So is setting limits.

When your family sets up purchase sharing, all new Apple Books and App Store purchases will be billed to the organizer’s account. But if Ask to Buy is turned on for children in the family, the organizer can still call the shots. When a child initiates a purchase, an alert is sent to the organizer, who can review the download and approve or decline it right from the organizer’s device. This applies to both purchases and free downloads.

They ask to buy.

Before your children can make a purchase, they must ask your permission.

You reply from anywhere.

A notification appears on your device. You can review the request, then approve or decline it.

Be more aware of how kids use their devices.

Screen Time can give you a better understanding of how much time your kids spend using apps, visiting websites, and on their devices overall. When you use Screen Time with Family Sharing, you can review your kids’ activity reports and set time limits for specific apps right from your own device. You can also name another family member as a parent/guardian, so that you’re always on the same page when it comes to your kids and their screen time.

Keep track of everyone. And every device.

Find My makes it easy to keep track of one another, whether you’re coordinating a meet-up spot at the mall or you just want to know when the kids get home from school. Simply send an invitation for them to share their locations. And if anyone’s device goes missing, everyone else in the group can help find it, even if it’s offline.

Get your family on the same page.

When you set up your family, a shared album is created automatically in the Photos app on all family members’ devices. Everyone can add photos, videos, and comments to the album whenever they like and get notified when something new is added. Family Sharing also sets up a family calendar where everyone can view, add, or change events and appointments, and get an alert when something changes. And anyone can use the Reminders app to send time or location reminders to the family. So when it’s picture day, pizza night, or just a trip to the beach, everyone’s in the know.

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How to share purchases with your family

One adult in the family — the family organizer — pays for everyone’s purchases. You can share apps, music, books, and more.

What is purchase sharing?

When you turn on purchase sharing, everyone in your family gets access to apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books that family members buy. The family organizer is billed for family members’ purchases.

Use your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to turn on purchase sharing

1. If you haven’t set up Family Sharing yet, set up Family Sharing.
2. Open the Settings app.
3. Tap your name, then tap Family Sharing.
4. Tap Purchase Sharing.
5. Tap Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.
6. To see which payment method will be billed, tap Purchase Sharing again and look at the Shared Payment Method information.
   

Use your Mac to turn on purchase sharing

1. If you haven’t set up Family Sharing yet, set up Family Sharing.
2. On your Mac, choose the Apple menu > System Preferences.
3. Click Family Sharing.
4. Click Purchase Sharing in the sidebar.
5. Click Set Up Purchase Sharing and follow the onscreen instructions.
6. To see which payment method will be billed, look at the Shared Payment Method information.
   

Turn off purchase sharing

1. See your Purchase Sharing settings in Settings on your iPhone or iPad or in System Preferences on your Mac.
2. Turn off purchase sharing:
   • On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, tap Stop Purchase Sharing.
   • On your Mac, click Turn Off, then click Stop Purchase Sharing.

Which payment method is charged for purchases that family members make?

When Purchase Sharing is turned on, everyone’s purchases bill to the family organizer’s payment method.* If there’s an issue with the payment method, the family organizer can change or update their payment method.

If you’re the family organizer and you don’t want to share a payment method with your family, turn off purchase sharing. When purchase sharing is turned off, you can continue to share subscriptions like Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade.

Learn more

If you want kids to get permission before they make a purchase, turn on Ask to Buy.

Information about products not manufactured by Apple, or independent websites not controlled or tested by Apple, is provided without recommendation or endorsement. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of third-party websites or products. Apple makes no representations regarding third-party website accuracy or reliability. Contact the vendor for additional information.

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Leave Family Sharing

Learn the different ways you can leave or be removed from a family group and what happens when you stop using Family Sharing. If you’re the family organizer, you can remove members at any time or disband the family group completely.

Remove yourself from a family group

Remove someone else from a family group

Disband a family group

What happens when you stop sharing?

Leave your family group

Any family member age 13 or older* can remove themselves from a family group. If you have Screen Time turned on for your account, the family organizer must remove you.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap your name, then tap Family Sharing.
3. Tap your name.
4. Tap Stop Using Family Sharing.
   

On your Mac

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Family Sharing.
2. Click Details next to your name.
3. Click Leave from Family Sharing.

If you’re using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences > iCloud, then click Manage Family. Click your name, then click the Remove (—) button.

When you leave Family Sharing, you lose access to any shared purchases or services shared by the family group.

Remove your account from a family group

If your Apple ID is being used to share purchases with a family group that you no longer want to be part of, you can visit your Apple ID account page and remove the account from the family directly. Go to appleid.apple.com and sign in with the Apple ID and password for the account you want to remove. In the Family Sharing section, choose Remove Account > Remove. After you leave the family group, you can start your own family group or join another one.

Remove someone from your family group

The family organizer can remove anyone age 13 or older* from the family group. If you need to, you can transfer a child to another family.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap your name, then tap Family Sharing.
3. Tap the name of the family member that you want to remove.
4. Tap Remove [your family member’s name] From Family.
   

On your Mac

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Family Sharing.
2. Click Details next to the name of the family member that you want to remove.
3. Click Remove from Family Sharing.

If you’re using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences > iCloud, then click Manage Family. Click the name of the family member that you want to remove, then click the Remove (—) button in the bottom-left corner.

Disband a family group

When the family organizer turns off Family Sharing, all family members are removed from the group at the same time. If there are children under 13* in the family group, the family organizer can’t disband the group until they move the child to another Family Sharing group.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap your name, then tap Family Sharing.
3. Tap your name.
4. Tap Stop Using Family Sharing.
   

On your Mac

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Family Sharing.
2. Click Turn Off, and then click Stop Family Sharing.

If you’re using macOS Mojave or earlier:

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences > iCloud, then click Manage Family.
2. Click your name as the organizer.
3. Click the Remove (—) button in the bottom-left corner.

If you created a Family Sharing group before iOS 14, the organizer keeps the family calendar, reminders, and shared photo album in their account. They can share the content again with individual family members. Learn how to share calendars and reminders.

What happens when you stop sharing?

• Your Apple ID is removed from the family group and you won’t have access to any services shared by your family, such as an Apple Music family subscription or a shared iCloud storage plan.
• You stop sharing locations with your family members and your devices are removed from the family Find My iPhone list.
• If your family shares iTunes, Apple Books, and App Store purchases, you immediately stop sharing your purchases and lose access to the purchases made by your other family members. You keep any purchases you initiated while part of the family group. Other family members can’t use content downloaded from your collection.
• Any content that your family shared with you isn’t automatically removed from your device. You can purchase it again or remove it to free up space on your device. If you downloaded an app from a family member’s purchase history and made In-App Purchases, you’ll need to purchase the app yourself to access your In-App Purchases.
• If your family organizer set up an Apple Cash account for you as part of Apple Cash Family, your account automatically closes and your balance transfers to the family organizer’s Apple Cash account. If you’re the organizer and you disband the family group, any Apple Cash Family accounts you set up for family members will close and their balances transfer to your account.
• If you have an Apple Watch that uses Family Setup, you won’t be able to manage that Apple Watch.
• If you share a photo album, calendar, or reminders with family members, you won’t share them anymore. If you want to keep using Family Sharing but not share certain features with your family, you can unsubscribe from them instead in the Photos, Calendars, or Reminders apps on your device or on iCloud.com.
• If you use Apple Card Family and you leave a Family Sharing group, you aren’t automatically removed from the Apple Card Family account. Learn how to remove yourself or a participant from a shared Apple Card account.

* Age varies by country or region. Under 14 in Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Italy, Lithuania, and Spain. Under 15 in Czech Republic, France, and Greece. Under 16 in Brazil, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Under 13 in all other countries.

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