What is Family unit Sharing?

With Family Sharing, you and up to five other family members can share access to amazing Apple services like iCloud+, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Fitness+, Apple tree News+, and Apple Arcade. Your grouping tin also share iTunes, Apple Books, and App Store purchases, and a family photo anthology. You lot can even help locate each other's missing devices.

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One adult in your household — the family organizer — invites your family members. When family unit members join, they get instant access to the grouping's subscriptions and content that are eligible for sharing. Each family member uses their ain business relationship, so everyone's experience stays personalized and private.

Gear up Family Sharing.

Share purchases, subscriptions, iCloud+, and more than

Share purchases from the App Shop and more

When you set up purchase sharing, everyone in the family gets access to the apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books that family members buy. The content automatically appears on the Purchased page in the App Store, iTunes Store, Apple Books, or Apple Television set app. Some items tin't be shared.

Turn on purchase sharing.

Share Apple subscriptions

Whether it'south music, TV and movies, news, games, or fitness, Apple subscriptions take something for anybody. And with iCloud+, you can share storage and features like iCloud Private Relay, Hide My Email, and HomeKit Secure Video support with your family.

When you utilise Family Sharing, your whole family can share access to the same Apple subscriptions. With Apple One, you tin can bundle everything together for ane low monthly cost. You can also share some other subscriptions that you sign up for in apps from the App Store.

Larn how to add a family member to your subscription.

Everyone's personal files and preferences stay private

When you share iCloud+, family members tin can't meet each others' photos, files, or documents. And when y'all share other subscriptions like Apple tree Music, Apple tree Fettle+, or Apple TV+, each person sees their own preferences and recommendations — not the whole family unit's.

Desire to go on purchases private? Y'all can hide individual items.

If your family unit includes children

Parents tin create Apple IDs for kids under xiii* in their family. With an Apple ID, a child can use their ain business relationship on their ain device — and fifty-fifty make their own purchasing decisions. But with integrated parental control features, parents tin still set limits.

* Historic period varies by country or region.

Approve what kids purchase or download

If you want to see and approve what kids download, ready up Ask to Purchase. When a child asks to purchase apps, movies, or other content, an warning is sent to the family organizer, who can corroborate or decline it right from their device.

Prepare Ask to Buy.

Kids can employ Apple Cash

With Apple Cash Family, your child or teen can send or receive coin in Letters and make purchases with Apple Pay. Parents tin send assart or spending coin straight to children. And parents can see and limit kids' spending. Family members under 18 can besides participate in Apple Card Family.

Prepare Apple Cash Family.

Limit how much time kids spend on their devices

With Screen Time, you tin can go along an eye on how much time your kids spend using apps, visiting websites, and on their devices overall. Review your kids' activity reports and set time limits for specific apps right from your own device. You can also name another family member every bit a parent/guardian so that yous're ever on the aforementioned page when it comes to your kids and their screen time.

Use Screen Time.

Kids tin can stay connected with an Apple Picket

Set up Apple Watch for a school-aged child who doesn't have their own iPhone. Kids tin can use their Apple Watch to make phone calls, send letters, and share their location with you. And parents can help kids stay distraction-free during school hours with Schooltime.

Set up a child'south Apple Sentinel with Family Setup.

Share locations and discover devices

To assist you stay coordinated, people in your family group tin share locations. And yous can help other family members observe their devices if they are missing.

Keep track of where everybody is

Notice a missing device

Your family members' devices appear in the Observe My app. So information technology'southward easier than ever to track downward a missing or stolen iPhone, iPad, Apple Lookout man, or Mac.

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