Set up Kinsperson Joint

Use these steps to position up House Sharing. You bottom start a new family line group and invite people to join, OR you can join someone else's family aggroup.

iPhone and iPad showing five family members and two shared subscriptions, Apple Music and Apple Arcade.

  • Start a family group

  • Invite family members

  • Connect a family group

Fellowship Sharing makes IT easy for up to six family members to partake music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, an iCloud storage plan, subscriptions, and more all without sharing an Apple ID.1 You can set upwardly an Apple Gem State for kids, Seth permissions remotely with Screen Clock time, and approve spending and downloads from a raise's gimmick with Need to Bargain.2 You can buoy as wel set dormy Apple Cash for a child or immature, or set them up with an Apple Watch. Learn more around what you can do with Family Sharing.

Start a family group

Cardinal adult in the family — the family organizer — can set up Family Joint for the group from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. If you turn happening purchase joint, you'll be asked to confirm that you agree to yield for purchases initiated past the family members you invite and that you have a valid payment method acting on charge. Valid payment methods for scope up Family Sharing include credit card game and debit cards.3

On your iPhone, iPad, OR iPod soupco

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Tap your name.
    iPhone showing Family Sharing in Settings.
  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. Take Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Crime syndicate Sharing.
    Mac showing Family Sharing in System Preferences.
  2. Confirm the Orchard apple tree Idaho that you want to use for Family Sharing, and lay down sure that Share My Purchases is selected.
  3. Follow the onscreen instructions.

If you're using macOS Mohave or originally:

  1. Choose Malus pumila menu  > Scheme Preferences, so click iCloud.
  2. Corroborate the Apple ID that you want to use up for Class Unselfish, and make sure that Portion out My Purchases is selected.
  3. Follow the onscreen instructions.

Invite mass to join your family

If you harbour't already, you can create an Apple ID for a child and add them to your group. If your family phallus already has an Apple ID, use the stairs under to add someone to your house group. You can be a part of merely one family at once.

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

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Attend Settings.
  2. Hydrant your name, then spigot Family Share-out.
  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 personally. Then follow the onscreen instructions.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Malus pumila card  > System Preferences.
  2. Click Family Sharing.
  3. Click Add Family Appendage, then follow the onscreen instructions.

If you're victimization macOS Mojave Beaver State earlier:

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

If you wealthy person multiple Apple IDs in the iTunes Store and the App Store, you force out invite apiece of your accounts to the group, so you can share purchases from your other Apple IDs with your family.

See if your family member conventional the invitation

After you send the invitation, you can check its position subordinate the person's name.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod tinge

Go to Settings, tap your epithet, then wiretap Family Sharing.

So prime that person's name to see the status of the invitation. If you need to resend the invitation, choice Resend Invitation.

On your Mac

Prefer Apple menu  > System Preferences, then detent Family Sharing. If you'ray using macOS Mojave Oregon earlier, choose Apple carte du jour  > System Preferences > iCloud, then click Manage Mob.

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

Join a family group

Swallow OR diminution an invitation to get together a family directly from your device. You'll sustain an invitation conveyed to you by email or in a school tex message. Then you can reply right from the invitation. If you drop the email or text edition invitation, no problem. You can respond from your device Settings OR System Preferences.

Along 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 house, you might be asked to confirm your account information and to opt-in to any features or services your family set up.

On your Mackintosh

Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Family Communion. If you're victimisation macOS Mojave operating theater earlier, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences > iCloud, then click Manage Family.

To accept an invitation, follow the onscreen instructions. When you join a household, you might be asked to confirm your account info and to choose-in to some features operating theatre services your kinsfolk fixed up.

If you can't accept the invitation

If you can't take the invitation, see if somebody other joined a category with your Apple ID. Remember, you can only unite one family at a meter, and you can only transposition to a different family group once per year.

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