Family share lockout??? 363 days

Accidently turned off family share and now I'm locked out for 363 days.  What the???  No warning or anything.  Apple pleasee fix.  This is a big selling point for your IOS 8.
Thanks!

Hi
Same happened to me. Apple this cannot be true. pls fix it and allow for set back. That is for me the main feature in the IOS release, and now we should not be able to use it until IOS9?
Thanks for your reply and set back

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