Family Sharing lets you and up to five other family members share access to amazing Apple services like AppleMusic, AppleTV+, AppleNews+, AppleArcade, and AppleCard.1 Yourgroup can also share iTunes, AppleBooks, and AppStore purchases, an iCloud storage plan, and a family photo album. You can even help locate each other’s missingdevices.
Getting set up issimple.
Choose what you want to share, invite your family members to join, and enjoy eachother’s digitalcompany.
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 andshare.
Whether it’s music, TV and movies, news, or games, Apple entertainment services have something for everyone. And with FamilySharing, 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 wholefamily’s.
Original shows and movies from the world’s best storytellers.
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 anytime.
All your family’s purchases onall 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 AppleBooks, the AppStore, 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.
When your family sets up purchase sharing, all new AppleBooks and AppStore purchases will be billed to the organizer’s account. But if AsktoBuy 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.
ScreenTime 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 ScreenTime 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.
FindMy 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.
As it turns out, it's possible for someone else in your family to receive your texts if you're on a Family Sharing plan with that other family member using the same Apple ID. As accidentally as this may have happened, it can also be fixed with a few simple steps.
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. Your group can also share iTunes, Apple Books, and App Store purchases, an iCloud storage plan, and a family photo album.
You can't have two organizers in a Family Sharing group, but you can change the role of another adult in your group to approve or disapprove downloads and purchases. You can choose any adult in your group to approve purchases and downloads; they don't have to be the child's parent.
If there are multiple people in your household using either an iPhone or Android, you can set up the Family Sharing feature so everyone will be able to access purchased apps, games and content.
With Family Sharing, you and up to five other family members can share access to Apple services like iCloud+, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Fitness+, Apple News+, and Apple Arcade. Your group can also share iTunes, Apple Books, and App Store purchases. You can even help locate each other's missing devices.
I'm getting my wife's text messages on my phone, how can I get rid of this. This happens when you both use the same Apple ID for iMessage. To fix this you have two choices: On one of the phones go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with a different ID.
You are only sharing the storage for them, not the photo libraries themselves. Other people in the group cannot access iCloud Photo Libraries from other members in the family group. If you don't have iCloud Photo Library turned then, then your photos are not even on iCloud. No, that is not a feature of family sharing.
With Family Sharing, you can share your location with family members in the Find My app or the Messages app. You can also help family members locate their missing device.
Why use Apple Family Sharing? Apple Family Sharing makes a lot of sense if you're subscribing to Apple services and want to share them with the rest of your family (or your friends) to save money. Each service allowing Family Sharing will let you to share with up to five other family members.
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.
You can check to see if you're already part of a family in Settings > [your name]. If you see Set Up Family Sharing, you aren't using Family Sharing with this Apple ID. If you see an icon with Family Sharing, you can tap the icon to see your family members and roles.
The good news is that the Family Sharing feature is completely free to use! Everyone in the group can benefit from the convenience and flexibility of shared apps and Apple services. But if you (the organizer) have shared some paid-for services, you'll have to pay for the corresponding subscription plan.
No, phone plan holders cannot directly see text messages on smartphones or mobile devices through the carrier like Verizon or T-Mobile. They can see how much data you use but not specific texts.
How to stop someone from reading your text messages on your Android from another phone. Unfortunately, it's also possible for Android users to fall victim to someone spying on their messages. To protect yourself, you need to update your text message privacy settings so that you're the only one with access.
You can get your child's text messages sent to your phone via text forwarding on your iPhone or parental control app. AirDroid Parental Control app runs on Android.
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