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Apple Family Share: Does it work?
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Post 1 made on Thursday March 21, 2019 at 22:31
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For about 5 years now I’ve been maintaining a family of five under one iTunes account because at the time, that seemed better than trying to get family sharing working. But due to Apple’s device limitations, that’s starting to become a problem. Does anyone know if Apple now has family sharing working right? Can I buy content on one account and share it to other family members? What about Apple Music?

I know I can search some of this, but the results for info on Apple and iTunes is painful. I’ve just spent 2 hours trying to get an old phone unauthorized so a new phone will authorize. My daughter did a full reset on the phone without deauthorizing it first. And apparently a full reset will not deauthorize a device from an iTunes account
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Post 2 made on Thursday March 21, 2019 at 22:35
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I have Family Share set up on all of our phones.  5 phones.  Don't exactly know what it does..I only did it so if the kids try to buy something it hits my credit card.
OP | Post 3 made on Thursday March 21, 2019 at 22:56
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I thought it was supposed to allow you to share content between accounts, so you only had to buy it one time.
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Post 4 made on Thursday March 21, 2019 at 23:45
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Outright paid apps will typically be shared amongst family members (since I think it's currently an Apple requirement to support it). But, IN-APP purchases are not shared, so greedy app developers tend to make a lot of things that shouldn't be (like no ads, pro version, full version etc.) in-app purchases so every family member has to buy.

iTunes music and books should share as well, if you enable it.

Has worked just fine for me. Coming from the old "hodge podge" method it can take a bit to de-tangle all your devices and settings.
Post 5 made on Friday March 22, 2019 at 08:10
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Apple Music has worked fine for us with a family membership....nothing ever to buy....my old iTunes library was uploaded to the cloud....i download what I might need when offline.
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Post 6 made on Friday March 22, 2019 at 09:01
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I recently ran into a setup like this.  The captain of a boat that we installed a Mac Mini and 4 or 5 AppleTVs, had a family share account.  One of the accounts had all the movies on it.  The itunes login that he gave me was linked to that account.  I was able to download all the content from that family share onto the mac mini.  I was able to stream movies with the AppleTV that way, but I was not able to watch them via Home Sharing.  So any downloaded content could not be watched until I changed the AppleID on the AppleTVs and Mac Mini over to the account that actually purchased the movies.  I had to get through to level 2 tech support at Apple in order to figure this out.

Music worked fine though.
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Post 7 made on Saturday March 23, 2019 at 10:13
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I use it. However, don’t put anyone in as a child’s age. You can’t remove them until age 13. So if your kids wants own account before then you are out of luck.
Post 8 made on Monday March 25, 2019 at 17:07
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In app purchases don’t get shared which sucks.

All the movies are purchased on my account. The family accounts can download them but not stream them. They have to go to iTunes->purchases-> then click on my account, to see all the purchases and download them.

Apple Music has been solid and shared iCloud storage is much better
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OP | Post 9 made on Monday March 25, 2019 at 17:53
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On March 25, 2019 at 17:07, sofa_king_CI said...
In app purchases don’t get shared which sucks.

All the movies are purchased on my account. The family accounts can download them but not stream them. They have to go to iTunes->purchases-> then click on my account, to see all the purchases and download them.

Apple Music has been solid and shared iCloud storage is much better

Hmmm, leaving all ATVsunder my account is not s problem. But you are saying to watch content on an iPad you have to download it? Not sure that’s s problem. Have to ask the kids, I guess.
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