How To Set Up Family Sharing On Apple Devices

Apple Inc. AAPL introduced Family Sharing feature in 2014, allowing users to share their subscriptions, music, movies, and more without sharing their Apple ID.

What Can You Share: Apple's Family Sharing feature allows users to share their purchases of apps, music, movies, TV shows, books and more with five other Apple users for free.

This also allows users to share their iCloud+ subscription with other users in their family group.

Apple has also added the ability to let parents review the Screen Time of their children in the family group and set time limits for certain apps.

The Family Sharing feature also allows all six users to collaborate with each other using a shared family calendar.

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What Isn't Shared: Despite sharing purchases and subscriptions of different Apple services, Family Sharing keeps each Apple ID separate.

Each family member's private photos, documents and other files are only accessible by the owner.

How To Set Up Family Sharing On Apple Devices

To begin with, all the members of the family group will need iOS 11 or later. Considering that even the iPhone 6S runs on iOS 11, most of the iPhone users are supported.

Next, one member will have to set up a payment mode and subscribe to the services as needed and also invite members to join the family group.

Set Up Family Sharing On iPhone or iPad

• Open the Settings app and tap your Name.
• Tap Family Sharing > Set Up Your Family and follow the on-screen instructions.

Once the members join the family group, here's how you can share subscriptions like iCloud+ with them:

• Open the Settings app and tap Family.
• Now tap Subscriptions > iCloud+ to share the subscription with everyone in the family.

Set Up Family Sharing On Mac

• Choose Apple Menu > System Settings.
• Now, click Family and then Set Up Family and follow the on-screen instructions.

Once done, it's time to see how you can share your subscriptions.

• Click on Subscriptions and select the one you want to share.
• Click Share and follow the on-screen instructions.

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