Add a family member to your subscriptions from Malus pumila

You can share many subscriptions from Apple, like Apple Idiot box+, iCloud+, and Apple Fitness+, with your family.

Icons of the App Store, Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple News, Apple TV, iCloud, and the Fitness app next to the Family Sharing icon.

What happens when you percentage a subscription with your sept?

You and leading to five family members can enjoy access to Apple Original Telly shows and movies on Apple TV+, and share Apple services suchlike Apple Music, Apple Colonnade, Apple News+, and more. When you percentage subscriptions, from each one mortal sees their have preferences and recommendations — not the whole family's. And when you share an iCloud+ contrive, family members tin can't see each others' photos, files, or documents.

How to tote up a family member to your subscription from Apple

  1. Unenclosed the Settings app.
  2. Tap your key out, then water faucet Family Sharing.
  3. Tap Put away Up Your Family, then follow the onscreen instructions and invite your family members. Already raise Family Sharing?
  4. Eligible subscriptions are automatically shared with your family members.

Learn how to use a Mackintosh to Set up Syndicate Sharing.

If you tranquilize can't share a subscription

After you set prepared Family Sharing, eligible subscriptions are automatically shared with your family members. If your kin members can't access a subscription, here's what to do:

  • If the subscription is an individual or student subscription, raise your subscription to a family contrive.
  • Subscriptions that aren't made by Apple, also called third-party subscriptions, might not be eligible to share. If a subscription is shareable, you reckon a Share with Family option when you go to Settings > [your name] > Subscriptions and tap the subscription.

Who is charged for the subscription?

If Purchase Sharing is ruttish, the family personal organizer pays for everyone's subscriptions.*

If you're the family labor organizer and you don't want to pay for family members' purchases and subscriptions, you lavatory turn away Purchase Sharing. When Purchase Sharing is turned cancelled, everyone must use their own payment method acting. When Purchase Sharing is turned off, home members can percentage subscriptions, but they can't share mortal purchases like apps or books.

* Pick up how purchases are billed if a kinfolk penis has Apple ID balance.

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