Family sharing for the divorced

How would one go about setting up an Apple ID for an 8 year old who has divorced, but mostly amicable, parents? Our daughter has an iPod and iPad at separate houses, each currently under our seperate iTunes/iCloud IDs.
Both of us would like the Shared Location, Family Calendar, Family photo album as well as the Permission to Purchase features of Family Sharing, but don't necesarily want to have it all on one credit card, although we do maintain a joint account for child related expenses.
KInd of a mess, looking for suggestions
[Sorry to the admins for the double post. The original one on discussions / iCloud / icloud.com didn't have much activity]

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Hello Mevster,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you want to change the Apple ID used by services, like FaceTime, on some iOS devices. Take a look at the article linked below, it provides a lot of information that should answer your question and walk you through the process of changing the Apple ID that's used for services on iOS devices.
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A key feature of Apple's iCloud Family Sharing is the ability to share store purchases with invited family members. However, like many people, I use a different Apple ID for iCloud and Store purchases (ironically, primarily for the exact purpose of sharing among family).
Can I use iCloud Family Sharing to share purchases if I use a different Apple ID for Store (iTunes, App Store, etc.) purchases?

Sorry, let me clarify. I have two Apple IDs A and B:
A: Used for iCloud. All my calendar, mail, contacts, and other iCloud features are here. This is the ID I use as "the" iCloud on my iOS devices and OS X machines.
B: Used only for purchases, on all my devices and machines. This is what I used to log into iTunes, or to buy apps for iOS or OS X.
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I cannot to set family sharing for my family. When i open to iCloud section in settings it says "There's no family information". Why ?

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Yes, to clarify - we get a message that says "(he) is already a member of the Family"... but on my iPhone, it still shows that he is not, ie. that the invitation is still pending acceptance.
A bit more detail - when I enter his name (or even .me email address) at the 'Add Family Member' screen on the iPhone, the system will not accept it. ie. I enter his credentials, hit 'Next', and it does not progress to the next screen...
Bizzare. And he's the one who really needs to be enrolled, not so much my wife - who is successfully signed up!
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Help Apple!!!!

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Hi,
I'm trying to setup Family sharing but the invite email doesn't arrive at the destination account.
The account receives other emails and i've checked the Spam filter and virus checker.
The source/host computer is an iMac running Yosemite. I can happily email from the iMac to the MacbookAir.
Any suggestions or workarounds?

Hi there _Man,
I understand that you are having an issue with some of your Family Sharing members not receiving the email in order to join your Family Sharing group. You should first try to resend the invitation to this person, using the information in the article below:
See if your family member accepted the invitation
After you send the invitation, you can check its status under the person's name in Settings > iCloud > Family on your iOS device. On your Mac, go to Apple menu > System Preferences, click iCloud, and select Manage Family. Then select that person's name to see the status of the invitation.
If you need to resend the invitation, select "Resend Invitation."
Join a family group
You can accept or decline an invitation to join a family from you iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac.
In iOS 8, go to Settings > iCloud > Invitations.
In OS X Yosemite, choose Apple menu > System Preferences > iCloud > Manage Family.
If the invitation is sent to your email address, you can also respond right from your email.
To accept an invitation, follow the onscreen instructions. Here's what you'll be asked to do when you join:
Confirm your Apple ID and password.
Choose if you want to share your content and which iTunes Store account you want to share from.
Choose if you want to share your location. If you agree, your location can be displayed on family members’ devices in Find My Friends and Messages, and the location of your shared devices will also appear on family members’ devices in Find My iPhone.
If you can't accept the invitation, see if someone else joined a family with your Apple ID or is sharing purchased content from your Apple ID. Remember, you can only join one family at a time, and you can only switch to a different family group once per year.
Start or join a family group using Family Sharing - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201088
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Family sharing for kids under 13

How can I create an Apple Id to use the family sharing for my kids who are under 13 ?
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Family Sharing and the App Store

There are two weird things I'm noticing now that I've set up Family Sharing for my wife and myself.
1) Both of our iCloud Account pictures in the Settings App are the same. If I change my iCloud picture to myself, both our iCloud accounts (though they are set up with separate email addresses) change to the same picture. The same happens if my wife sets her iCloud account picture - it changes both our accounts' pictures.
2) When I go to the App Store, under Purchased I get two sections: My Purchases, and my wife's purchases, listed under her name. If my wife goes to the App Store and goes to Purchased, she gets the message "This iTunes account is set up to use Family Sharing with a different iCloud account than [my email address]." This is despite logging completely out of iCloud and the App Store on her phone, leaving Family Sharing, and rejoining everything using her Apple ID.
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However, even after turning off Family Sharing on my wife's iCloud account and re-adding her to my Family Sharing account, we still get the message on her phone in App Store > Purchases that "This iTunes account is set up to use Family Sharing with a different iCloud account than b***". There is a Learn More button, but this simply takes me to her phone's iCloud account where it clearly shows that her iCloud is set up in family sharing with my b*** email address. Under App Store > Purchases on my phone, I am able to view both my purchases and, supposedly, her purchases (currently empty).
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Family sharing for divorced family

How would one go about setting up an Apple ID for an 8 year old who has divorced, but mostly amicable, parents? Our daughter has an iPod and iPad at separate houses, each currently under our seperate iTunes/iCloud IDs.
Both of us would like the Shared Location, Family Calendar, Family photo album as well as the Permission to Purchase features of Family Sharing, but don't necesarily want to have it all on one credit card, although we do maintain a joint account for child related expenses.
KInd of a mess, looking for suggestions

There are legal reasons why it's set up this way.
For the past 4 years, I simply used a master App Store account across all devices.
Lots of people did that. Unfortunately, it wasn't legal. Apple came up with Family sharing as a way to allow you to achieve the same results legally.

How do I set up Family Sharing for my kids without owning a device myself?

My kids received iPads for Christmas. I neither have an iPad nor an iPhone, but I would like to set up Family Sharing. How can I do this from my account without owning one of said devices? I have installed iCloud for Windows, but I cannot log into it (valid iTunes account, but not set up for iCloud).
I cannot be the only parent in the world whose kids have iPads, but I don't.
Many thanks

Hey Wendaroski,
I am not quite sure what you mean by "my family members emails are already associated with my iTunes account" but what you need for each family member is an Apple ID. Yours would be the one for your iTunes account.
If the other members of the family already have an Apple ID you can invite them to join the family group. If not they will need to create one, using their email address. This article shows how -
Set up an Apple ID in iTunes - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Be well,
Brett L

Family Sharing for child with existing Apple ID

I'd like to enable Family Sharing, including Ask to Buy, for my child who has an existing Apple ID. How do I do this? The default is to treat every family member as an adult, with no option to specify as child.

This doesn't work. You are basically changing the birthday to make them 13. Not creating Child IDs with real dates.
For those of us who created Apple ID for our kids, before family sharing existed, by creating accounts and NOT PUTTING IN THEIR REAL BIRTHDAYS. Since you couldn't create IDS for kids back then. So now my kids REAL emails are LOCKED into a ADULT ACCOUNT. There is NO WAY to delete and account and start over. I cant create a new CHILD ID because their emails are already taken.
You should be able to CHANGE and ID to the proper under 13 date, then use the CC verification to prove I'm a (******) adult. Or at the very least DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND START OVER.

Apple ID / Family Sharing for Kids: Change Requests

My 12 year old has been given an iPhone and I wanted to include him into our Family Sharing. I stumbled over a number of Problems that are a bit disappointing for an Apple user:
1. Asfar as I understand: As he reaches 13, the restriction that the parents have to authorize all purchases on the organizer's Apple ID / credit card will automatically fall.
This is not what we want. We suggest that the organizer can choose at what age the restriction will fall (at least max. 16!).
2. The members of the family do not have the choice that a purchase should be charged on their own credit card.
This is not what we want. We suggest that each family member can provide their own credit card and can choose at each purchase if it is charged to his or her own credit card or to the organizer's credit card.
In this case it would be a good idea that there is not age limit for the autorization of purchases by the organizer.
3. It is not possible to create a new Apple ID for minors over https://appleid.apple.com/. The only way to create an Apple ID is the Family Sharing function in IOS 8.x. However, there it is not possible to define an Apple ID with an individual email address – it has to be a @icloud.com-Address.
This is not what we want. We suggest hat the function to create an Apple ID for minors within the Family Sharing function of IOS would allow for Apple IDs with individual email addresses.
4. It seems that the apple support staff does not know these things in detail. It took me three calls to find this out. In the first call, the supporter suggested to define the kid's Apple ID using applied.apple.com. However, it was possible to create an account with a birthday of a 12 year old (wrong error
text: "You cannot change this birth day"). The second supporter told me that the reason for this was a major update under way in Apple's systems and asked me to wait for 48 hours. The third supporter did not know these details. I had to ask to talk to someone familiar with Family Sharing and Apple ID to verify:
Is it possible to create an Apple ID for minors over applied.apple.com? Is there another way to create an Apple ID for minors using an individual email address as the Apple ID? It took me 10 minutes waiting until the supporter told me that neither was possible.
This is not what we want. We suggest that the support staff is trained better or is provided with better Information on these topics.

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