Family Sharing on IOS8?

Just setup family sharing with my account as organizer, my wife as parent and my two sons as childs. So far so good.
When my wife now goes to I-Tunes she can see all my songs and download whatever she likes.
In the App-Store it does not show anything??? Checked for some apps to confirm that family sharing is shown as YES!
So how can my family now download my apps???
On my phone I see all the content (apps) available!

Hello there, bbeam10.
It's possible that you have restrictions setup that prevent you from sharing. The following Knowledge Base article provides a good resource for more information on that:
Use restrictions to prevent purchasing on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht6088
Additionally, if you find the issue persists, this article offers another solution for when receiveing a disabled account message:
Apple ID: 'This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons' alert appears
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht6088
Thanks for reaching out to Apple SUpport Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

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IOS8 Family Sharing

I am trying to setup Family Sharing on IOS8. When I get to the share purchases screen and hit continue I get a box that comes up that says "Invalid Account" "You cannot use this account to share purchases because its disabled"... Does this have to do with my apple ID being disabled because my apps ID seems to be working just fine.... or is this a feature that has to be used with ICloud Drive, and if I have this feature off it will not work? Help is very much appreciated.
Thanks!

Hello there, bbeam10.
It's possible that you have restrictions setup that prevent you from sharing. The following Knowledge Base article provides a good resource for more information on that:
Use restrictions to prevent purchasing on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht6088
Additionally, if you find the issue persists, this article offers another solution for when receiveing a disabled account message:
Apple ID: 'This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons' alert appears
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht6088
Thanks for reaching out to Apple SUpport Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

How does my family stream (not download) content using family sharing

Hi,
Our family previously used Home Sharing with an iTunes account on an iMac. We could pick up our family iPad and stream a movie from the iTunes shared library. How do I now do this with Family Sharing in ios8? - I can still stream like before as my apple id previously purchased all content, but not my other family members now. I don't want my 7 year old to have to wait hours while the movie they wanted to watch on the iPad downloads on to the device - I just want it to start streaming like it used to .... any help appreciated!
Thanks

As far as I know, family sharing should not affect home sharing and as long as Apple id is the same on ipad
in settings - videos (for movies) settings music( for music)
and on computer under home sharing - it should still work the same way.
Apologize in advance if I am wrong, I do not use family sharing and reason for that I feel it is a step back, not forward.

Family sharing between two existing Apple ID accounts?

Greetings,
My wife and I have two long standing Apple ID accounts and were exciting at the prospect of Family Sharing in iOS8. What we would like to do is to be able to see and share the purchases we have made over the years instead of having to log into each other's accounts. It appears that we can't create a family group with both ID's however. Does anyone have any suggestions conceding the best way to accomplish what we are trying to do?

Hello there, Matt.
Family Sharing is one of the exciting service that rolled out with iOS 8. The following Knowledge Base article offers up some great information in regards to how sharing works:
Sharing purchased content with Family Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT201085
One additional point is addressed, in this article:
Apple - iCloud - Family Sharing
https://www.apple.com/icloud/family-sharing
Get organized.
To get started, one adult in your household — the organizer — invites up to five additional family members and agrees to pay for any iTunes, iBooks, and App Store purchases they initiate while part of the family group. Once family members join, the features of Family Sharing are set up on everyone’s devices automatically.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

IOS8 Family Sharing Limitations

I have a really interesting problem, and wonder if anyone might be able to help.
In short. We have 4 iOS devices (iPhone x2 for me and my wife, iPad x2 for home/kids - under 12 yrs).
All devices used to all use my iCloud/iTunes account. This gives us the same set of core data/information on each device. The same calendars (we have 8 - one each, a family one, etc), a completely shared set of contacts, music, photos (inc albums, etc) and apps. It works great - we can see each others stuff (which is how we like it) - plus we can all use find my phone to see all four devices.
We have four different AppleIDs; one for each family member - this gives us separate accounts for iMessage, FaceTime, Find my Friends, Game Center, etc.
Family sharing now breaks this as, as far as I can tell, you can only share a single calendar and you can’t share the same contacts…is this right? This is really limiting. I have updated all devices to iOS8, and they now effectively show up as mine. We can't do Find my Friends, and we have had other issues over mine vs my wife's iPhone.
Any ideas/suggestions?

Hello there, bbeam10.
It's possible that you have restrictions setup that prevent you from sharing. The following Knowledge Base article provides a good resource for more information on that:
Use restrictions to prevent purchasing on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht6088
Additionally, if you find the issue persists, this article offers another solution for when receiveing a disabled account message:
Apple ID: 'This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons' alert appears
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht6088
Thanks for reaching out to Apple SUpport Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

How do i change my sons DOB in his itunes account that I set up as part of the family sharing facility in IOS8?

I have just set up my children as family members in IOS8 and set the wrong DOB for my son (Phone rang while I was doing it...can't multitask...you know how it is.) And he will be upset when it tells him he is 5 and no doubt poor lad will have complications when he is 18 and Apple think he is still 13!
How do I change his DOB?
Thanks
Using IOS8 on various IPADs

Hi Dabat,
Towards the bottom of the Adobe.com page you should see an option to change your geo, make sure that is set correctly before starting the purchase process. Creative Cloud payment works off Credit Card. If your Adobe ID was associated with an incorrect region you would want to contact Adobe customer service for help changing that.
-Dave

IOS8 completely messes up old "family sharing" method of sharing an itunes account

Instead of my wife and I's five devices working very well together ...sharing a 200gb storage plan, sharing safari tabs through iCloud, ect. Our devices have been completely hacked apart by this new family sharing setup. It's also going to cost us more money now as we have to increase iCloud storage for each user instead of having one large account to backup too. I can't even backup my devices right now until I increase my cloud storage on the extra accounts we are having to use.
Hoping i can can downgrade back to iOS7 and then I'll have to decide if I'm sticking with the Apple ecosystem. was looking forward to getting a new 6 too.

So can someone that hasn't switched to Family sharing and is using a shared account please verify whether or not you can still log in and out of Find My Friends separately?
This is the issue that P-T-M and I are concerned and having problems with.
So far my account is "stuck" in share mode. I am working with Apple to try and get that fixed.

Family sharing and photo sharing iOS8

We have four iPhones, two iPads, a mac that is our family backup, and an Apple TV. These all used to be logged into my Apple ID in order to share media purchases and the photos we all took. With iOS 8 and family sharing, we are each logged into our own account on our own devices now. The apps are sharing fine. However, I want the photos to share as they once did - the computer (Yosemite) is logged into my Apple ID still, so my phone's photos are uploading. But what about everyone else? It seems I can only log into one iCloud account for iPhoto. How can I make photo uploads automatic once more? Am I missing something? I thought we could share photos with family, but all I see now is a shared photo stream that we must voluntarily upload things to.

I too have this question, and have received nothing helpful wherever I have asked since the initial iCloud Photo Library announcement both here at Apple's Support Communities and elsewhere.
My plan is to go back to using a single Apple ID for all my family's devices and use iCloud Photo Library, but we will lose the ability to use Find My Friends for my family members.
Apple don't seem to have considered families who have family photo libraries when it comes to the new iCloud Photo Library. Considering the move towards Family Sharing, this is odd.

IOS8 Family Sharing is a FAIL

Well, so far, Family Sharing is a complete fail. After adding my kids to the family, they are no longer able to update any apps. They get an error about "Your family doesn't have a valid payment method". What?? This after I had to switch our PayPal payment method which was good for years, but somehow isn't supported with Family Sharing, to my MasterCard. So, clearly we DO have a valid payment method because you can't even setup Family Sharing unless you have a valid payment method. And the MasterCard shows valid and I'm able to buy apps.
Also, no matter what I did to try to see the family purchases - restarted the device, downloaded a free app - purchases from other family members never showed up under Purchases in iTunes Store or App Store apps.
So much for Family Sharing. Anyway, we solved the app update problem by kicking everyone out of the family and abandoning hope of easily sharing purchased music and apps. It sounded good....evidently too good to be true.

if the MasterCard is a debit card, you cannot use that for children under 13. Not sure why we can't use Paypal either.

Family sharing lost apps ios8

In order to make room on my sons ipad, I had to delete a few apps. MS word, excel, etc.
After we switched to ios 8, I turned on familty sharing. Now I want to redownload those purchased apps, but they are no longer there.
Thoughts?
Thansk,
Jay

Hi jayfromsan anselmo ,
You should first make sure that you set up Family Sharing correctly. See this article -
Sharing purchased content with Family Sharing
If still having an issue, troubleshoot with the steps in this article -
If you don't see your family's shared content
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

How To Use Family Sharing on one Apple ID ?

OK....I like the new family sharing but I got around this in past in creative way.
I have one AppleID that whole family uses.....no iCloud, only use ITunes to Sync, and on each iPhone or iPad for Text & Facetime I disable in settings all but that phone # and/or email for that user. Obviously all the emails for the family are loaded/verified in my Apple ID.
For payment I had no Credit Card on account but bought the kids iTunes gift cards.
I'm trying to avoid having to setup a bunch of Apple ID accounts.
I'm hoping I can get best of both worlds........but have not upgraded any device to iOS8 yet so have not tried.
I'd like to keep the single AppleID, load in Credit Card info, go to Share and invite the other family members, set restrictions, etc.
However, my question is will/how does the "invite" work if all members are listed under same Apple ID ?
Thx.

See this page : Leave Family Sharing.

From Shared itunes account to ios 8 Family Sharing

In my family everyone has his/her own icloud account for sync and backup and we all use a common i tunes account so we can use one credit card and share bought apps music etc..
Now that ios8 will come, with family sharing, how will this work?
if i set the shared itunes account as the main account, i'll "loose" one of the family members (me) as i have a separate icloud account. i don't want that. is the solution to move my icloud account to the former shared itunes account?
also, will ios 7 users (i.e. with iphone 4) be able to be included in the new family sharing?

As far as I know this is the only info that Apple have so far released about Family Sharing : http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/family-sharing/
It's not clear to me from that page how you will be set up e.g. whether in your case you could set up the shared iTunes account as the 'organiser' account and then use that to invite each of your own cloud accounts into it. It may be a case of waiting until further details are released later this year.
I'm assuming that a device will have to be on iOS 8 to benefit from it - the bottom of that page includes :
Some features require iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. Some features require a Wi‑Fi connection. Some features are not available in all countries. Access to some services is limited to 10 devices.

Family Sharing: Can it be used to back up multiple phones to the same iCloud account?

With the Family Sharing feature of iOS8 & Yosemite, is it possible to back up multiple iPhones automatically to one iCloud account?
My family needs a way to automatically back up their iPhones. It would get really costly and otherwise problematic to equip each of us with iCloud accounts just so we could back up our phones automatically. If Family Sharing enables us to do these automated backups to one iCloud account, then I'd go ahead and upgrade my iCloud account to the 200 GB iCloud storage allotment.
However, if I do this, does this give my 11-year-old access to my iCloud email account, contacts and other personal information? I imagine that the Family Sharing tool should be able to manage this, but I'd like to be sure.
Thanks.

I do know that if you have separate iCloud accounts you can share with your children what you need to. I encouraged my daughter to do that for her 2 kids she bought iPads for Xmas. Instead of using her account like she had been doing with her old iPhones the kids used, she created new iCloud accounts to take advantage of the 5 gig for each account, otherwise just 2-3 devices ***** up that 5 gigs immediately. She then set up what she wanted them to have access to, and it worked out perfectly!
I myself was thinking of doing the opposite of what you inquired about and doing what she did with her kids, but for myself. I am thinking about created a separate iCloud account then share with myself what I need to so I can gain 5 gig storage by using separate account on a couple devices.

Family sharing & two Apple IDs

I have two AppleIDs - one for my iCloud (email etc) and a second for all Store purchases. I share the Store AppleID with my kids' iPads so that we can share purchases as per this recommendation ( Using your Apple ID for Apple services ). And that has worked 100% for years :-)
So today I'm trying to set up family sharing - I _think that I need to share the 2nd AppleID account - the store one right - so that all my existing purchases are accessible?
Trouble is that when I set up Family Sharing on my iPhone, it defaults to the AppleID I set ios8 up with - in this case, my iCloud email AppleID.
So to change that, I need to log out of iCloud and log in again with my other ID (the Store purchases AppleID) in order to share it on Family Sharing...
But I've stopped at this step ... if I do this, will I be able to back out again and change my default iCloud account back to my primary (email) one ??
Am I missing a trick here because surely loads of people have used the two AppleID approach to share purchases with other devices ?
Thanks for any info :-)
tim

No. All iTunes store IDs in a family sharing group must be from the same country/region.

Should I switch from shared iCloud account with wife to two separate accounts with family sharing?

My wife and I have always shared 1 iCloud accpunt between our our 5s phones, iPad, and an old 4s which is now just a toy for our toddler. With ios 8 I am not sure if it is possible or practical any more. We do it to share purchases and the photo stream and a Google calendar.
With ios 8, it seems to be impossible for both of our phones to share their location. From what I can tell, only 1 device at a time on the icloud account can share its location. Is that a correct assumption? And icloud no longer gives the option for each of us to sign into separate itunes accounts on find my friends. We are forced to sign in with our 1 shared iCloud account. So we can no longer use find my friends to see each other's location.
So has ios8 rending sharing an iCloud account useless? I'm wondering if we now need to have separate accounts and link them with family sharing. Will we lose the benefits of having our 1 shared account? I just wanted to make sure we wouldn't lose anything if I set her up with a new account and linked it with family sharing.

I have lots of questions about this and other things too; I have been sharing my account with my wife and daughter for years through 10s of iPhones and iPads and with the introduction of IOS8 we are having lots of new and not so fun problems.
As to your question about location. I have three iPhones and one iPad using the same account now (on IOS 8) and all four devices show up with Find my iPhone. My wife's was not showing up today but I went in and turned on the new feature "Send last Location" and all of a sudden her phone was able to be found again. Not sure if that will solve your problem but just wanted you to know that I have the four devices all showing up in Find my iPhone with a shared account.

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