Does each device in a family sharing group have to have its own Apple id?

When setting up the Family Sharing does each device have to use its own apple ID? I have 6 devices (each person has an iphone and ipad) I was wondering if I would have to have 6 different apple ID's. Also, is there really good step-by-step instructions on how to set it up anywhere?

No, if a family member has multiple devices, they can use the same ID on them.
Here's a step by step guide:
Family Sharing in iOS 8 and Later.
(Note that I am affiliated with that site, and some pages contain ads).

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Do all the people in family sharing group have to have same last name?

do all the people in family sharing group have to have same last name?

Hi ant_barry,
Happy New Year! The Family Sharing program does not require members of the family to share the same name. Here is some general information for you:
OS X Yosemite: What is Family Sharing?
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH19007
Family Sharing lets up to six members of your family share their iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store purchases, a family calendar, family reminders list, and family photos, all without sharing accounts.
One adult—the family organizer—sets up Family Sharing, invites up to five people to join the family group, and agrees to pay for any iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store purchases those family members initiate while part of the family group. Once set up, family members get immediate access to each other’s music, movies, TV shows, books, and eligible apps. In addition, family members can easily share photos in a shared family album, add events to a family calendar, share their location with other family members, and even help locate another family member’s missing device.
Each family member needs to have an Apple ID he or she uses for iCloud. For a child too young to create his or her own Apple ID, the family organizer can provide parental consent for a child to have his or her own Apple ID and create it on the child’s behalf while adding the child to the family.
To join a family, you must sign in to iCloud with your Apple ID. You will also be asked to confirm the Apple ID you use for the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store. You can be part of only one family group at a time, and you can switch families at most once per year.
Family Sharing is available on iOS devices with iOS 8 or later, Mac computers with OS X Yosemite (v10.10) or later, and Windows computers with iCloud for Windows 4.0 or later.
Join a family
Set up Family Sharing
Last Modified: Nov 19, 2014
Cheers!
- Judy

HT204053 If I am joined into a family sharing group and I share my purchases does this mean they see all my apps that I have downloaded and the ones that had at once but deleted?R

If I am joined into a family sharing group and I share my purchases does this mean they see all my apps that I have downloaded and the ones that had at once but deleted?

Hi apples-consecutive-buyer-for-life,
Family Sharing makes all of your past purchases available to other family group members, including most apps. See this article on what content can be shared -
Which purchased content can I share using Family Sharing
Note also that content can be hidden. See this article -
Hide and unhide purchases in the Mac App Store
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

How do you add an iTunes Gift Card so that all purchases of any members of a Family Sharing Group can use the credit?

How can all family members of a Family Sharing Group use a gift card that has been been applied to the iTunes master account? I added a gift card to our master iTunes account for my grandson, and even though he's a family sharing group member, none of the purchases I have approved from his requests have used the gift card credit. A search of the iTunes support site failed to turn up anything that even remotely addresses this topic. It would seem reasonable to assume that any purchase made by any family member should be able to use the gift card credit since all purchases go through the master account, but this does not appear to be the case.

Regarding your statement about the gift card balance being used if redeemed to the organizers account - http://www.apple.com/feedback.
Regarding redeeming the gift card to the child's account, it is the same as redeeming to yours. You have to be signed in to the iTunes store using the child's apple ID, then redeem the gift card there. If you already redeemed the card on your ID, you won't be able to redeem it again.
Redeem and use iTunes Gift Cards and content codes - Apple Support

I'm part of a family sharing group. How do I use my iTunes balance to purchase apps?

I'm part of a family sharing group, but I have a balance on my iTunes account. How do I use that balance to pay for apps, instead of using the organizers shared payment method?

808LakerFan wrote:
I'm part of a family sharing group, but I have a balance on my iTunes account. How do I use that balance to pay for apps, instead of using the organizers shared payment method?
Laker Fan,
It should be doing it that way. See below for the official Apple description. If it is not working as stated, contact iTunes Customer Service.
Family purchases and payments
After you set up your family, any time a family member initiates a new purchase it will be billed directly to your account unless that family member has gift or store credit. First, their store credit will be used to pay the partial or total bill. The remainder will bill to the family organizer's card.

My wife's Apple ID is shown as belonging to a family sharing group, but we can't determine what is the id of the owner. How can she remove herself from the group?

my wife's apple ID is shown as belonging to another family sharing group. We can' t figure out the Apple ID of the 'owner' of the group. Is there any way to remove oneself from a family sharing group when you are not the owner? Or how can we find the log in id (Apple ID) of the owner?

i partially solved the problem, however still need some help. My wife has made purchases under two different Apple ids. I tried t re-set her iPad with her main ID but it is apparently part of a family. I re-set her iPad iCloud using her secondary ID. The sharing of iTunes shows her main apple ID. The settings iTunes is also set to her main Apple id. I sent an invite from her iPad icloud family sharing to her main Apple ID, but when I attempted to consent to join it says she is already a member. So I am guessing this is because in the family set up under her secondary ID that her main id is the iTunes account that is shared. My question is could I change the iTunes shared under her name as owner to her secondary account, then invite her main account to join as a distinct member? I am nervous about doing this for two reasons 1. There is a warning when changing the shared iTunes account that says you can't join another group for 90 days. 2. I may still get the message that her main account is still a member of the group even though it doesn't show up, and then not able to revert back.
if you follow this can someone offer some help,
thanks
note. This whole problem when we had to change a Apple id when we changed Internet service providers.

Sharing contacts using AirDrop, both users are members of the same Family Sharing group.

I'm asking this question for a friend of mine. He contacted me to help troubleshoot a problem where he was trying to share a contact with his wife using AirDrop. They both have new iPhone 5Ss running iOS 8.1. He can send a contact to his wife's iPhone but she can't send to him. While troubleshooting we noticed we could change the behavoir by changing the settings of who was a Parent/GardIan and who was an Adult in Family Sharing. For example we could change the behaviour so that she could share a contact with him but he could not share with her. We were never able to get it to work where they could share with each other both ways. It was one way only.
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Hi,
The way to do this would be to first have a Lookup on the dimension based on the properties you want. You can then use this retrieved value in the REC statement.
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Can one apple ID belong to multiple family sharing groups?

I'm interested in starting a family sharing group with my siblings (surprise). They have children of their own, however, so if I invite them to my new group, will they also be able to create a different group for themselves with their children?
My thought is that my siblings can more easily share information and photos. I wasn't interested in approving app purchases for their children however so I thought they could create a separate group with their same parent ID for themselves with their children. If I'm thinking of this right, and ID needs the capability of belonging to multiple groups. Is that possible?
Thanks kindly.
Bill

Hi Mdbarnharts,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like your family members are using the same Apple ID to share purchases, and now you're receiving messages sent and received by your kids.
You can set up and manage Apple IDs for your children through the Family Sharing feature.
You can find more information about Family Sharing and setting up an Apple ID for your kids at these resources:
Start or join a family group using Family Sharing - Apple Support
Family Sharing and Apple IDs for kids - Apple Support
All the best,
Jeremy

I have multiple devices in my family. Each of us has an iPhone and an iPad. Is there a way for each of us to have our own Apple ID but one account so we can all get the same music, movies, books, etc. I can't see paying twice for something in the same fam

I have multiple devices in my family. Each of us has an iPhone and an iPad. Is there a way for each of us to have our own Apple ID but one account so we can all get the same music, movies, books, etc. I can't see paying twice for something in the same family.

Welcome to the world of digital media. Your can't really transfer it. I don't know what the rules are about transferring to your spouse but I do know that in some cases when you die, your heirs cannot inherit your digital media. This is why there is still an advantage to buying the CD since the usage rights belong to whomever holds the physical media.
A possible workaround is to burn the songs to a music CD with yout account (tracks only without song titles) and then having your wife upload it as a regular music CD onto her account. It's been a while since i've done this so I'm not sure if it would work now.
Please note that I'm not advocating copyright and/or TOS violations. I'm only suggesting ways to copy music for your own personal use which has traditonally been permitted. I only did this because I wanted to convert iTunes songs to mp3 files so I could burn them onto a data CD for use in my car. It would make sense that since married couples are a joint entity, this would be personal use.
Also, I'm not a lawyer so don't take this as legal advice.

Family sharing. i have set my wife up on family sharing and each time we try to download a book or an app, we are requested that i update the payment details. I have done this and we still cannot share.. what do i do or how do i update the payment

family sharing. i have set my wife up on family sharing and each time we try to download a book or an app, we are requested that i update the payment details. I have done this and we still cannot share.. what do i do or how do i update the payment details to enable my wife to download

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What's the best solution for this? I
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder from her old compouter to /Music/ in her account on this new computer.

Please help!! I have iPhone 4 so does my wife, we each have our own apple id's for these devices. We have just got an ipad to share for at home use. Is there a way to have both our id's on the ipad to share our music photos etc?

Please help!! I have iPhone 4 so does my wife, we each have our own apple id's for these devices. We have just got an ipad to share for at home use. Is there a way to have both our id's on the ipad to share our music photos etc?

For the purposes of 'refreshing' your question so that others more expert can comment here is a link you should read-
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/27070/how-many-apple-ids-should-one-hou sehold-have

HT204053 Should a family share an apple id, or does each phone need its own apple id?

Should a family share an apple id, or does each phone need its own apple id?

Hello coachscott,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
Frequently asked questions about Apple ID
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5622?viewlocale=en_US
Can I share my Apple ID with someone else?
You shouldn't share your Apple ID account information with other people. Each person should have their own Apple ID.
Best of luck,
Mario

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If you are not in the US then you cannot use the US store, the store's terms say that you have to be in a country to use it - if you are using the US store then you are risking having your account disabled.
In terms of feedback for Apple : http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Using iMessage on iOS 8 with family sharing can other people linked to the account see my iMessages? We each have our own apple IDs.

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hi my child is 11 and in my family sharing group. she received an iTUNES voucher for christmas and has redeemed it on her own id but she cannot use it?
can you advise us how to get around this problem?

gmanthefirst wrote:
hi my child is 11 and in my family sharing group. she received an iTUNES voucher for christmas and has redeemed it on her own id but she cannot use it?
can you advise us how to get around this problem?
G Man,
If she redeemed the card on her account, and it correctly reflects her credit balance, then she should be able to buy items with it. Here is the explanation of how it is supposed to work:
Family purchases and payments
After you set up your family, any time a family member initiates a new purchase it will be billed directly to your account unless that family member has gift or store credit. First, their store credit will be used to pay the partial or total bill. The remainder will bill to the family organizer's card.
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