Family Sharing is one of the benefits of iOS 8, it aims to connect family devices in all ways, share photos between family members, share purchases, and other advantages. Learn in this article about how this feature works, and how to set it up.
What is the family sharing service?
The family sharing feature is, in short, it enables the family to link their accounts in one account so that any member of the family can share applications, books and anything they have bought with their family members without having to buy them again. The father can also know the purchases of his children and control them and accept to buy any of them, as we will explain in this article.
How to set it up
Setting up Family Sharing requires initially that you put your credit card in the Apple ID Store account settings. You cannot create family accounts if you have an iTunes card balance. That is, you must put a visa and be from the same country for the account.
After that, go to Settings and then i-Cloud; At the top of the iCloud settings you will find an option for the Family Sharing settings, enter your Apple ID account and then make invitations to the accounts of your family members who will not be required to add credit cards.
Share everything
When you set this feature, it will create a special folder in the Photos application, which includes you can place any pictures in it to sync with family members. Participation is not limited to pictures, but you can also transfer calendar data and reminders and identify important days for family members and priorities that are accomplished through reminders. And almost everything where devices will become interconnected.
Software store
With the Family Sharing service, you can share everything, or rather everything will be synchronized, after completing the preparation, any member of the family can see the applications that any family member has bought, as well as books, ringtones, audios, videos, books and everything. It is worth noting that you can monitor what your child buys. For every purchase of games, you will receive a message that your child wants to buy such an application or game, and you can accept or reject this process.
detect location
You can know the whereabouts of the family, as soon as you enter the same email on the Find My Freinds service prepared for the family sharing service, all family devices will appear, and you can identify the locations of those devices and know where your children are going. It is also possible to apply this to the Find My iPhone service and find out the location of the device in case of theft and report it or delete its data.
Restrictions on the service:
- The number of people in service is 6 people maximum.
- The main person - the father, for example - must hold a visa, and it must be from the same country as the store.
- You cannot add accounts for people from other than your country, that is, if your account is Saudi and your brother is American, none of you can add the other to the service.
Hi
This feature is excellent and very important.
I read some comments regarding adding children under the age of XNUMX years old. It is possible, but unfortunately, it requires a credit card, so it must be a credit card, not a debit card, according to the requirements of the laws in America, if your account is in the American store. I would have liked if someone had shared a successful experience with us.
IPhone Islam please help
After activating Family Sharing, the credit card became linked to my account and cannot be deleted like before
I noticed that I cannot remove the card and the none option has disappeared
How can I remove the card from my account and work on it without any credit cards like before (choosing none)
Peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you. Your news, my beloved in God
I am your brother from Algeria. I have a problem with the iPhone 4s on version 8.1 Jailbreak. When entering the network, Uday recognizes and works on it, I agree. Your family and what you possess in the safety of God
Peace, mercy and blessings of God
No, Apple is not an ios8 coin, it is compatible with the iPhone 4S and it has a small space
Thank you for the information
But
From my point of view, it does not work, because it is possible by mistake to share private pictures and watch your children or even your wife ,,,, and it is possible for one to say that I am a straight person and I have nothing to hide from my wife and children ,,,,,, I say it is possible for you to have a friend who is a joke or a dasher and sends you a picture Causing you embarrassment with the kids
And every man has his secrets
As for the rest of the features, such as sharing apps and wow
They are sweet
But there is no family at one age to agree on a specific application
And after the applications that are worth the money they are needed, they are already very little, the prices are cheap
Means
There is no need to venture into a family partnership in order to save you a water or two riyals that you can spend to buy applications for you or one of your family members
I tried the service and never found it suitable for me. Until you add a person and he gives you a notice, he likes to have the credit power of the type of credit and not a debit, and this is difficult
Can I do this service for my employees in the company, knowing that my cell phone uses it for work and personal use?
Peace and mercy of God
I turned on family sharing and my 18-year-old son was able to buy an application from the store without me knowing and I did not receive any alert for that even though I, of course, put in the password and other than that ???
I canceled Family Sharing
Dad iPhone 6plus, how do I choose a suitable version for Saudi Arabia, open on all networks, and has FaceTime
Hello. I forgot my password according to the restriction
In any possibility to recover them without losing data
Of course, the application is fine, but there is no need for it. I don’t want my friends to know where I am, and this is considered an interference in my personal life.
The service, in short, is a miniature and simple model of what companies can do in the field of monitoring our movements .. See how delicious it is that you are monitoring the movements of your son or wife (for the skeptics) or even your grandfather if you do well on him and I am sorry that he pays two dollars more for the book The Most Stupid Granny and you entered it with your account! Do you expect companies (without a name) to dispense with the pleasure they find by watching people whenever they want ?! '
Until now, I am working on iOS6 and I will not move unless I have to buy a new device .. In the old days, if I sat down with Siri, she would tell me if I asked about a place or restaurant to try: I don’t know where you are in it ;; Run site service! My device has not happened since the sixth edition as I mentioned and it seems that they are not allowed to be blinded by them since I am XNUMX/XNUMX locked GPS service .. Recently it seems that they are searching by the towers or the Internet / Wi-Fi / SIM provider itself; She started telling me: I cannot search for places in Saudi Arabia!
Al-Saeed, who still keeps my office device cut off from everything except electricity, with a system that works without any problems ;; Dedicated to everything treasured, such as work, photos, etc.
** This topic is not useful to me at all, at least now .. Firstly, because my system is old .. And because my account is American, just as most of the accounts of visitors to the iPhone Islam site are also .. And because I did not do any cloud .. Fourth: I am ashamed to monitor my sisters or brothers since I am financially A family as a wife and children, even without intending it, and as I give them the money for the program I have bought or give them an iTunes card, I love myself! And peace
How can I cancel this feature and delete the sunset
I wanted to run it and put a credit card, and now I want to delete it and delete the card, and I do not know how
He always asks me to add the members of the sunset to another sunset !!! And I do not want any other sunset
I don't want my card online !!!
I have a device 5, I forgot the iCloud and the passwords, and I am unable to open the device
Greetings to all Islam iPhone crew
Relation to the subject and mentioning the necessity of the credit card to be from the same country
I always wonder why the Apple Store excluded some countries
For example, but not limited. Morocco, for example
I hope from Islam iPhone helps us in this point
Greetings
Is it possible to share books only without programs or others?
Is it permissible to use iTunes cards even though the Visa card is linked to the account?
Is there an application on the iPhone to hide the programs that you do not want anyone to see ??
We want an Arabic keyboard from you because there is no one in the Arab world with your craftsmanship. You are the best, and because we lack the Arabic keyboard, it is enough for us to wait for the rest of the companies to support our language -_-
I have a problem every time I connect the iPhone to iTunes and work without the download for the ios8, which has an area of XNUMX gigabytes, after it downloads XNUMX it says it is doing the processing that the file is corrupt
This article is incomplete and insufficient. There are many other things with this feature that have not been mentioned.
Regarding family sharing programs
If I bought an app and don't want it to appear to the rest of the family, is there an option for that?
Peace be upon you. I thank you for this special topic, as we are used to you
I have a question about the programs that are being shared, whether after the separation you will be in the other account, meaning that we bought the program with the two accounts or return the situation as it is, and the first account is only the one from whom you can update the program
There is a major breach of privacy 😁
I tried it once with a friend to get an application that I bought and I did not rest until I deleted it .. I think it is not very useful for the family and it is enough to make family members enter into your personal account and therefore you have complete control and that is what I do. As for friends, I think that it is difficult to share your account especially with them. If your family members use your account and thus you put your privacy and your family at the mercy of technology, any mistake may cause you embarrassment
I will not let anyone subscribe to my credit card except my love, because the card, the heart, and everything belongs to her ...
For every game purchase you will receive a message that your kid wants to buy such an application or game and you can accept or reject this process.
This feature does not work for me as shown ???
When a child wants to buy any application, the message that I agree or reject does not appear to me. On the contrary, he is asked for the password ???
I hope to explain the way the Father Store’s account works for non-adults or to develop a solution to make the non-adult son cannot leave the feature because I tried and I could not find the solution except by making an account of the child's age and the father did not accept making an account for an age younger than XNUMX years
What I understood from your explanation that all programs will be shared with all individuals joining the family account, is it not possible to specify the programs to be shared with family members ??
I experimented with the Alaal Participation ... In fact, the idea is very, very cool ... .. The two observations are that the account must be from the same country and the other is when anyone buys any application, even if it is free, the approval of the father or the main account holder must be even if it is free.
I tried the feature, but it makes my son an adult and does not ask me for approval before buying, and I tried to create a new Apple Store account at the age of my real child of eight years, but I could not and I am surprised your article is not detailed as we are used to you.
It has already been fought since the first version of version XNUMX
I tried to send invitations, but they remain pending and do not accept
I tried to create a child account that asks me to confirm my visa card while I am an adult
I tried with the Saudi account linked to the visa in which I bought my programs
I tried with an American account with an iTunes card
In either case, Radi passed