How do i share apps with Home Sharing?

How do I share apps from one iPhone/iPad to another with Home Sharing? "Automatically download apps" is checked on both computers on the network, but they never show up.

As indicated by ckuan, as long as all devices are using the same Apple ID for store purchases then you will be able to share everything you purchase from iTunes. Just make sure you log-in to the iTunes Store on each device using the same Apple ID.

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How can I access apps from home sharing library?

I can view my husband's music and video library, but I cannot view and access his apps. He has an old PC and the last version of Itunes. We are updating it now. What do I need to do to acces his iPhone apps?

Do you and your husband share one Apple ID for iTunes Store purchases. If not, that is a requirement for you to be able to access his purchases and vise versa.
If you do share one Apple ID then you have use that ID to enable Home Sharing on both computers. See my post in the thread I've link to below to learn how to enable Home Sharing.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3461734

How to hide kids albums with home sharing on

I have 3 teenage kids and have home sharing turned on. How do I hide their albums in my iTunes and on my iPhone/iPad?

Your best bet is to clone both devices onto two separate drives, or together onto a larger external hard drive that can cover the capacity of both with its own separate partitions. http://www.bombich.com/ Carbon Copy Cloner is able to do that for you. Test your clone boots and is mapped correctly before erasing the drive in question.

How do I share contacts with "Family Sharing"?

My wife and I had been sharing my iCloud account on 2 phones because we want our calendars and contacts synced. I'd rather use the Family Sharing, but it seems like it will not allow you to share contacts. Anyone know who we can do this without having to share the same iCloud account on 2 phones?
Thanks!

I have the same issue more or less.
iMac contacts are set up to support us both, some contacts are common, some for each individual, separated by groups. Prior to iOS 8 shared my iCloud account to get contacts and iCal across iMac and two iPhones. Just tried family share, worked fine for iCal but did share contacts for wife's phone, who was an invited group member. I understand that Family Share does not work for this operation. That is a FAIL in my opinion if true. Deleted family share. Now back to one iCloud account. Issue with one account is that I get all of her "recents" showing up in mail and messages and now on the home screen. I would really like to have things more separated. All ideas are welcome!
Just read this:
My thinking is the the new Family Sharing is a FAIL and that following the advice of this article is still valid.
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/syncing-multiple-icloud-data- with-a-family-mac/

How do i share content with my family without becoming responsible for payment of everybody's purchases? with familysharing i mean, not home sharing

how do i share content with my family without becoming responsible for payment of everybody's purchases?
with familysharing i mean, not home sharing
i have set up a familyshare for my parents and 3 siblings, all mid twenties. everybody is used to paying their own way. how do i make that continue to be the case and still keep the sharing facility open?
e.g I don't want to pay for my sisters' music purchases - half of it i don't like - but would like access to it now and then.

-> Home Sharing is different than logging into the iTunes store.
You enable Home Sharing using one AppleID. Doesn't matter which you use but all devices must use the same AppleID for Home Sharing.

HT3819 everybody in my family has a different apple id, how can we share our music? can this be done with home sharing?

everybody in my family has a different apple id, how can we share our music? can this be done with home sharing?

Setting up Home Sharing for Apple TV (2nd and 3rd generation)
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How many ATV2's can I use with home sharing at once?

I am installing a fairly large home network. I have 10 ATV2's I would like to use on 1 network using home share, all will be connected via ethernet. Is there a limit to how many atv2's I can have connection one itunes account with home share or a limit using the remote app?

It used to be a limit of about 5 AppleTVs per iTunes library with AppleTV 1 but that registered them as devices rather than using Home Sharing.
I suspect but don't know for sure that Home Sharing has to be more liberal as Home Sharing now works to portable devices like iPads too, and if the household had a couple of AppleTV2's, iPhoness and iPads they could reach 5 very quickly.
Having said that we just don't know. There is a limit of sharing to 5 computers with Home Sharing, so it's possible the same applies to individual device types, we just don't seem to know from the support docs posted.
Personally I'd be surprised if 5 was the limit as under the old system if you ran out of 'Devices' in itunes you could set up another computer for the next 5 and so forth. Home Sharing on the other hand just shares to a particular account so you'd see all libraries shared from a particular account on all AppleTVs.
AC

Can a family of four share one i tunes account with home sharing?

Can a family of four share one i tunes account with home sharing?

Sure but it depends more on how many and what kinds of devices are being connected to each other for Home Sharing. Up to five computers can be authorized to use iTunes Home Sharing. I don't believe there is a limit on the number of iOS devices, Apple TVs, iPhones, iPads and iPod Touchs, that can connect using Home Sharing.

HT1727 How do you grant permission for home sharing and authorizing? My mac did home share, but now says, "The required directory was not found or has a permissions error", when I try to authorize.

How do you grant permission for home sharing and authorizing? My mac did home share, but now says, "The required directory was not found or has a permissions error", when I try to authorize.

OK, I just got off of the phone with Apple and still no joy. They had me try a few things that did not work, then told me to Archive and Install, which did not either. Anyway, thanks for the additional help very note worthy, but still no joy. Also an email to iTunes Support took me here
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93061
I have a Users/Shared folder but since the files we are talking about are invisible, I can see how it is structured.
And by the way I tried this one
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3577004#3577004
and it did not work. However, when I install a fresh copy of Tiger on the external it did authorize the computer and was able to play the downloads. But coping the invisible file to my boot drive was not successful. But , like I said the music did play when I started up from the external. So I guess that may be my only solution, unless someone can tell what the correct directory is and where it for iTunes downloads.

HT202213 How do I unregister a computer with home sharing, to register a different one?

How do I unregister a computer with home sharing, to register a different one?

On your computer with iTunes, on the menu go to Store, View My Account.
Authenticate with your password.
Click the blue Manage Devices text.

Apple Remote App or Home Sharing won't work on iPhone or iPad with iTunes (Win 7)

Hi,
After I updated my Remote App (version 4.0) on my iPhone 5 (iOS 7.0.3) and iPad-3rd generation (iOS 7.0.3) and updated my iTunes (Version 11.1.3.8) on Win 7, I no longer can get Apple Remote App to work or my Home Sharing to work with Music/Videos for shared library.
I've followed every step in troubleshooting for Remote App (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1741) with system requirements, proper iTunes settings, Home Sharing setup, Network connections, restarting the network router, and checking firewall settings. I've also done every setp in troubleshooting for Home Sharing (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972).
I've done multiple combinations of signing out on both iDevices and iTunes with Home Sharing, turning them on in different orders, closing and re-opening the apps and iTunes, restarting the iDevices and my computer. No matter what I do, nothing works.
I've even tried taking my computer and iDevices with me to different routers (work, home, friend's house, etc.) to see if it was a router problem, but no matter what I do it will not work. I am looking forward to getting an Apple TV soon, but if these problems persist, the outcome of that possibility is unlikely.
Are any of you experiencing problems like this? I could really use some help.
Thanks for all your support.

I just ran iTunes Diagnostics (Help --> Run Diagnostics... --> "Check" Network connectivity tests).
I found this:
Windows Firewall is on.
iTunes is NOT enabled in Windows Firewall.
Connection attempt to Apple web site was successful.
Connection attempt to browsing iTunes Store was successful.
Connection attempt to purchasing from iTunes Store was successful.
Connection attempt to iPhone activation server was successful.
Connection attempt to firmware update server was successful.
Connection attempt to Gracenote server was successful.
I checked my Firewall settings (Windows Security Essentials) one more time, and it IS enabled for Home/Work (Private) and Public.
I think I'm going to uninstall and reinstall iTunes and see if that helps.

Can you share purchased books with Home Sharing?

Can you share purchased books (from IBooks) with Home Sharing? Music seems to share fine-books seem to be a problem.

In iTunes go to Preferences > Sharing and either share your entire library or make sure the Books playlist is checked.
You may then need to click the Import button to copy the book into your Library, I was not able to actually read the book without taking that step.

HT201976 With Home sharing can you share specific iTunes Playlists rather than the complete library?

With Home sharing can you share specific iTunes Playlists rather than the complete library?

With Home sharing can you share specific iTunes Playlists rather than the complete library?

HT202113 Can I share music via home sharing with other iPhones?

I Would like to share music and photos withe home sharing if you can do so.

Hi owexrn,
Home Sharing is designed to share content in iTunes either between computers, or between an iOS device and Apple TV. If you'd like to learn more about Home Sharing, please see the link below.
Learn more about Home Sharing - Apple Support
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Alex H.

I want to share info between my iPad and iPhone only but share apps with my spouse. How do I configure that?

I want to share info between my iPad and iPhone only but still share apps with my spouse. How do I configure that?

Need some more info - what info do you want to share?

How do i share apps with Home Sharing?

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