Family Sharing accounts for kids

I created Mail aliases for my kids as they were too young to have an Apple ID back in the mac.com/me.com days. Now with Family Sharing, I can create accounts for them (and they are getting older). Is there a way to convert those aliases to Family Sharing accounts? I wasn't able to to do this before with a MobileMe Family Pack, but Family Sharing brings a new set of rules on the accounts restrictions.

I'm afraid that aliases remain tied forever to the account which created them - you can't move them to another account nor turn them into an actual account.

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Can I have multiple payment methods on my Family Sharing account?

My family and I all just joined the Apple community, and we set up a family sharing account. However, everyone in our family sharing account would like to use our own methods of payment, (like myself, my dad, etc). Can we do this?

Hello steevo_711,
After reviewing your post, I have located an article that can help in this situation. It contains helpful advice concerning Family Sharing payments. There can be only one payment method which is associated with the family organizer:
Setting up Family Sharing
When you set up Family Sharing, you'll be asked to confirm that you agree to pay for purchases initiated by the family members you invite and that you have a valid payment method on file. Valid payment methods for setting up Family Sharing include credit cards and debit cards. You can change the billing method on file in your account at any time in your iTunes & App Store account settings.
Making purchases
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. As the family organizer, any receipts generated by the transaction will be sent to you. Learn more about how iTunes Store purchases are billed.
Once paid for, a purchased item is added to the account of the family member who initiated the purchase. In other words, the content belongs to them, much as it would if you were buying them a book or a DVD. If Family Sharing is ever disabled, each member will keep the purchases they initiated, even though they were paid for by the family organizer.
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
BobbyD

Setup Family Sharing with a Kids that has an iCloud account already

I have kids with iCloud accounts (actually accounts back from Mobile Me) and now I want to add them to the iOS 8 family sharing. That works but it lists my kids as Adult but they should not be because they are not 13 years old.
Is there a way to make them being listed as Children?
- Andy Schaefer

Making purchases
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. As the family organizer, any receipts generated by the transaction will be sent to you. Learn more about how iTunes Store purchases are billed.
Family purchases and payments

ITunes Match family account and separate store accounts for kids

Hi there,
I've googled a lot and also read through this support forum, but I'm still not sure whether I can use iTunes Match with my setup or not. My setup is like this:
1) I do have one iTunes account for most of my music ans app puchases
2) My kids are using my iTunes account but they also have their own accounts for their purchases.
3) All those accounts are synced with one iTunes instance on a Mac (thus, if kid A purchases a song kid B is also able to sync the song to its iPod)
All devices are authorized for all accounts, but I want to keep separate accounts for my kids, so I can control their iTunes budget (they only have gift cards, no credit card is associated with their account)
So, as far as I've understood if I enable iTunes Match on my Mac, _all_ songs will be transferred to iCloud - no matter if I have purchased them or my kids. Fine for my iPhone, since the iTunes Match account and my iTunes Store account will be the same and I'm authorized for my kids songs.
But what do I have to expect on my kids iPods?
- Do I have a chance to use the family account for iTunes Match and the kids account for puchases?
- If so, what happens if a song is bought on the iPod with the kids account - does it get matched on iTunes Match with the family account?
- What about apps? I guess this no subject here, since I'm able to specify a different apps store account anyway - right?
Thanks in advance,
Ralph

You're not going to be able to keep the same setup if you want to use iTunes Match across all your iDevices. iTunes Match is associated with one iTunes Store account ID, and since iDevices can only be signed into one iTunes store account ID at a time (and can only switch iDs every 90 days), to be able to use iTM all iDevices will have to be signed into the same iTunes Store account ID that was originally used to purchase iTM. There's really no way around this.

Family Sharing Woes for My Kid

We tried installing a free app (Khan Academy) on my kid's iPad after setting up family sharing. Actually it wasn't completely set up because we don't use credit cards and my debit card wasn't sufficient. Now she can't download the app apparently because I had it on my iPad and deleted it. The error message said "Redownload Unavailable with This Apple Id. This redownload is not available for this Apple ID because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled." That was the first time we tried to DL to her device. I removed her from family sharing and still get the same message. The app still has the Any advice?

You can edit the age. On an IOS device do as follows:
1. Click Settings
2. Click iCloud
3. Click on top where it shows you have the user you want to update birthday on logged in.
4. Click on Password & Security
5. On top it shows birthdate. Click on it. Wait!!!
6. It should ask you to answer two security questions you set up for that child. It will then go back to screen before if you answer questions correctly.
7. Click on birthday again and it will allow you to edit the date!!!
It even tells you that you can edit the year if previously set to incorrect date. I'm guessing Apple understood that parents had to fudge the way they had it before. And they got smarter with ios8. Not easier to find, just smarter.
Hope this helps!

Child account in family sharing asking for payment verification?

I am the organiser of my family sharing group which includes my three children (under 18). Today my son tried to download a Free app which would usually send a request to me to approve however instead it is asking on his iPad to provide payment account verification ie add my credit card details. I cannot choose None (it is greyed out) and I don't understand why I would need to add my credit card details to his iPad to verify his account when all purchases should be coming through my account.
Any suggestions?

The issue seems to have resolved itself, I assume the issue was a glitch on Apple's end.

How do I invite existing iCloud accounts to my Family Sharing account as Children?

My kids have had various iOS devices over the years, and created their own iCloud accounts for backups, email, etc with the introduction of iOS 7 (maybe 6). Family Sharing is a long overdue solution to managing to all the devices in a family.
My question is: How do I invite an existing iCloud account holder into my Family as a Child?
By default, these accounts are imported as Adults. Deleting my kids' accounts and starting over with new accounts is NOT and option, therefore without the ability to flag these existing accounts as "Child", this Family Sharing is a useless feature.
Any insights on how I can invite Child accounts to my Family Sharing Organizer account would be much appreciated.
~Rick

If the child is 13 or older, you can. Just set the birthday to 13 years old and it will work just fine.
If the child is under 13, you can't. Apple decided that you didn't need that functionality, just like me and apparently half the planet.

Family Sharing killed my kids emails

I was learning about family sharing.
I learned DO NOT create an Apple ID with their EXISTING EMAIL if they are a minor. You must use an icloud apple ID.
see below for details about this problem. (Note the customer service agent was unable to comprehend how to communicate this issue to Apple, despite repeated attempts.)
1) I tried to create an apple ID on my iPhone 6. they have their own email accounts. However I could not use these emails, I had to use icloud emails.
2) I went to a computer - an Apple - and created their apple ID online. success - an email was sent to their email addresses, which was verified.
3) I tried to add their new apple ID to their Ipods, and Game Center. This seemed to work fine.
4) I tried to add their new apple ID to iTunes store - no success. the birth year was blank.
5) I logged into "manage my apple ID" on the computer - could not modify the birth year. Both kids are under 13.
When I contacted apple Support, they told me "well I can't change it, you will just have to create a new Apple ID for them."
So I went through all the steps, and created new icloud Apple ID on the phone. This was successful. However, I discovered that I could not add their own emails to these accounts - they are associated with another Apple ID. (Note this other ID is essentially unusable!)
Further I learned that if I delete these other accounts, they will be permanently unusable by Apple.
The solution to this problem seems to be that Apple should allow a new minor's account to be created with any available email, not just a new icloud email. Or they need to find a way to modify the existing account.

I'm afraid that aliases remain tied forever to the account which created them - you can't move them to another account nor turn them into an actual account.

How do I change the organizer of a Family Sharing account

My husband is the organize of our Family Sharing iCloud account, and since he travels a lot, it makes it difficult for him to approve app downloads for our kids. I'd lIke to change the organizer to my account so we can avoid this, but I can't figure out how to do that and wasn't able to find anything on Apple's support site. Has anyone done this is and can give me some direction?
TIA

Here's what iTunes Podcaster help says:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html
Troubleshooting Your Feed
iTunes should update your listing at least once every 24 hours. If you made changes more than 24 hours ago that are not yet reflected in your iTunes listing, there is a good chance that your feed has broken. When iTunes encounters a broken feed, it ignores the feed and continues to display the old data.
Here is a set of recommended steps to fix your feed:
Ping your feed to make sure iTunes has attempted to update your feed recently.
Review the technical spec, particularly the example feed, to ensure that every detail of your podcast’s feed is supported by iTunes.
Use a feed validation service like www.feedvalidator.org to check for particular problems. This may be helpful in determining a specific problem with syntax.
If you used a software- or online-based feed creation service, check to ensure your settings there are correct and iTunes-compliant.
Subscribe to the feed in iTunes to see if it works. Open iTunes, go to the Advanced menu, choose "Subscribe to podcast..." and enter your feed’s URL.
Hope this helps - Podcaster's discussion board might have more answers:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1107

Account for kids

I want to download music onto a Ipod Nano for my son. should I start a new apple ID for him or can I downloaded selected music from my itunes list for his I POD Nano? I just want to have parental control over his account.

Hello, Ryan008.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I understand that you want to setup an Apple ID for your son. Here is the best article the will address your question.
Family Sharing and Apple IDs for kids
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201084
Cheers,
Jason H.

Family sharing - works for iTunes and iBooks but not App Store.

I Have family sharing setup with an iPhone 5 & 6 on the system.
i can can see purchased content for both iTunes and iBooks but receive the following message in the App Store: "this iTunes account is set up to use family sharing with a different iCloud account than ******."
I don't understand how 2 out of the 3 services can be working with the correct account but the App Store thinks it is not on the right account. any ideas?
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After digging and reading since I posted this question, I finally found the issue. My Cisco VPN client was set to stateful firewall (always on). When I turned off this setting, all machines worked for iTunes sharing. The Vista box was coincidentally working because the Cisco VPN client 4.6 didn't work on Vista.

ICloud Account for Kids?

OK, so here's my poser for the day:
My son (9) is getting an iPod Touch for Xmas (don't tell him!! ) and I'm going to link it to my own AppleID for iTunes and the like so that I can manage any purchases.
However, I'd like him to have his own iCloud account for email and syncing capability (let along "Find My iPod"), and so that he's not burdening my own storage. As he's 9, it's not possible to create his own AppleID (without faking his birthdate, which I won't do, of course). Is there a way to create only an iCloud account for him?
What I really don't want (or need) is another AppleID, as I already have several of them, plus I'd like his account to stay with him as he grows up and eventually be able to link it to his own AppleID as and when he becomes eligible.
Any ideas? Many thanks in advance.

There is no way to create a new iCloud account without an AppleID unfortunately. Family accounts no longer exist since the demise of MobileMe.
Apple doesn't appear to have thought about and catered for people in your situation, despite them knowing that iOS devices are being given to kids much younger than 9.
Parents I know have just faked the birthdate when creating the AppleID for their child to create an iCloud account. It can easily be updated later when they are within the arbitrary age limit and given the password to the account. They continue to use the parents AppleID for iTunes and AppStore purchases until they are old enough to make their own purchases.

How do you use a different form of payment on iBooks than the one on the family sharing account?

With family sharing, the Family Organizer is the only one that can pay for items in iBooks and other stores. Is there a way to use your own individual form of payment instead?

Archive the contacts you have in Address book, then delete them, they will be removed from iCloud as well. Restore the archive

Accounts for kids and other ramblings

I was trying to create limited accounts for my 3 kids who all just got iPhones. After much searching, it seemed that the only way to do this was by making an allowance account. So, I went through the process of setting up an allowance for one of them using their iCloud ID (@me.com) and was told that they are not set up for iTunes store. So, I tried logging them into iTunes and was told that I had to put a credit card on their account. Wait a second!!!! The whole point of this was to avoid having my credit card on their accounts. Just trying to get something working, I added my credit card and we were up and running. I then added the allowance to their account. At this point, iTunes let me remove the credit card info from their account. I did this for 2 of the kids without an issue. When I got to my daughter, she already had an iTunes account with a credit card associated to it. My intention was to switch her over to the allowance account and remove the credit card. I went through the process and it told me that I needed to call Apple support in order to complete the process. What the heck Apple?
Additionally, I switched my credit card number to a different card before doing any of this. The allowances however were charged to the card that was previously on file, not the new one that I entered because I wanted the new card to be used!
All in all, it has been a miserable process. I definitely think that Apple should put into place a technique of creating child accounts based off of the Parent's account such that the Parent can control the child's spending directly from their account within iTunes or via. an app on their iPhone, iPad, ...
If I'm missing something, please fill me in on what I need to do or where I went wrong. I don't want them to use my iTunes ID directly since I don't want them to automatically download my content, we don't listen to the same music and want that to be separate, and I certainly don't want all of the apps that they buy automatically appearing on my iPhone and iPad (yet I still want to use this feature for my own content).
Thanks!

Excellent ideas and can't understand why it is so difficult or wasn't implemented and thought out. Makes sense.
Ask Siri and see what she has to say! who knows, maybe they use questions to Siri to see what customer's want to know.
In the meantime, if you can, use iTunes Feedback. http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Use a family iCloud account for bookmarks and find my iPhone - iOS 7?

Prior to upgrading to ios 7, I was able to use one icloud account as a family icloud account where I would only enable the find my iphone and bookmarks in Safari so that all of our bookmarks would by synced across all of our devices and our home family imac computer. In addition, through one login, I could use find my iphone to locate any device in our family.
With ios7, it seems only the primary icloud account can enable bookmark syncing and find my iphone. Anyone know if there is a work around? I don't want to make the family icloud the main icloud account on each device since it will require more icloud storage space to backup everyone's devices and it will also interfere with photo stream and documents/data stored.
Any ideas or suggestions? It was so nice to be able to sync bookmarks across all devices like that.
Thanks
Marco

In order for users to disable find my iphone they would need to login into your icloud account or if they wipe youe phone clean it will still ask for your apple id and password in order to activate the phone if they restore it so either they will get stuck with a useless phone

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