IOS 8 with Family Sharing activated bug

Is anyone else experiencing a bug where music will download from iTunes Match via cellular data through the “Media Services” System Service? Here are the pertinent settings on my iPhone:
Settings -> Cellular -> Use Cellular Data for, disabled: App Store, iTunes Store, and Music
Settings -> iTunes & App Store -> Automatic Downloads, disabled: Music, Apps, and Updates
Settings -> Music -> iTunes Match, enabled
iCloud account: [email protected]
iTunes & App Store account: [email protected]
Family Share "Organizer" account: [email protected]
Before I activated and linked my [email protected] account to Family Share, music did not download over Cellular--which is how it should be with the first three setting above. However, after connecting to Family Share, the iPhone consumed over 1.5GB of cellular data in 30 minutes. When I looked to see what had been downloaded, I discovered that a bunch of music from iTunes Match had been downloading in the background (I do not remember initiating the downloads). Music continued downloading until I completely disabled all Cellular Data (Settings -> Cellular -> Cellular Data). When I re-enabled Cellular Data, music began downloading again. Eventually it stopped because all the free space was filled.
This morning, I deleted all of the music off of my iPhone, disabled iTunes Match, and then re-enabled it. While on a Wi-Fi network, in the Music app, I selected a playlist to download, after a few songs downloaded, I turned off the Wi-Fi, and now the music does not download via cellular data--which, again, is how things are supposed to work with the given settings. I do not know if this means the problem has gone away--I hope so, though because this bug blew through my monthly allotment of "high speed cellular data".

I'm having the same issue. I don't use Family Sharing.
When I updated my 5s to iOS 8, I enabled iTunes Match and downloaded my playlists, then after a little while I discovered that I had run out of space. When I looked in the storage settings, it had downloaded an extra 5GB of music! Fortunately this all happened over wifi.
However, I got my iPhone 6 Plus, and decided to set it up as a new device. When I enabled iTunes match and downloaded my playlists, went out with friends and got a text from EE saying I'd used 80% of my allowance, and then 10 mins later another text saying my allowance was all used up!
Checked under Cellular Data and I noticed Media Services had downloaded 2.7GB of data while I was out and the phone was in my pocket! Went to iTunes Store and saw there was still some pending downloads that had stopped because my data had run out! Really annoying this. My playlists add up to about 4.5GB, but my total music storage is now 10GB. That's 5.5GB of music I didn't select to download! It's sneaky this iOS 8!
Worth nothing that I do have Automatic Downloads enabled for Music and to use Cellular Data. This has never happened before though! I wondered if it was some sort of Genius feature to download more music it thinks you might like. God knows. Hope it gets sorted!

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True... I'm sure this will be implemented... Unfortunately in 5 years most likely.
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I have the same issue. I spent an hour on the phone with Apple and they don't have a clean fix for it. The issue seems to be with apps that developers have not yet set the Family share-able flag as yes or no. They said that when developers update the flag this will resolve itself. Meanwhile, if in the app store the details of the app under Family Sharing it says "Not Available" it will be an issue. I found a reasonable workaround for this particular issue by hiding the original purchase and "re-purchasing" as follows: Disclaimer/Note: Not all Apps are share-able, (even free ones.) If the app you are trying to deal with is an actual paid for app, you will be buying it again! Better to wait until the core issue gets fixed, unless you are willing to pay for it again.
1. On a PC or Mac, in iTunes, have the original purchaser log in to the iTunes store, then under Quick Links click on Purchased. Click on Apps at the top and find the app that is at issue. (Hint: The apps are not necessarily listed under the obvious app name. I was looking for Colorspot from SherwinWilliams, and found it under SherwinWlliams, not Colorspot.) Once you find the app, hover over it and click on the X in the upper left corner to hide it. Do this for all the apps that are at issue. (See Disclaimer/Note above)
2. On the iOS device that is having the problem, close the App Store app. (If you have many apps at issue you might make a list, or take a screenshot first)
3. On the same iOS device, find the app and delete it. (not ideal but it works!). Once you have all the apps at issue deleted, reboot, and make sure you are logged in to the iTunes store as the secondary "purchaser", (If you are logged in as the original purchaser you probably wouldn't have the issue in the first place, although to me that means going a bit backwards and not really using the Family Sharing program.)
4. Open the App store app, if you started the whole process with an app that wouldn't update, confirm that the app is no longer listed.
5. Search the store for the problem app as though it was a new purchase (at this point it is.) Once found, it should be listed with the "Free" or a "price" icon. If it shows the cloud and download arrow icon the hiding you did in step 1 hasn't updated yet. Wait awhile longer. (Reboot again? Re-log into store again?) (Also note here, that a properly shared app will show the cloud/download arrow icon and would be download-able without issue.) If it shows as Update, it hasn't actually been deleted from the device. If all is well, you should be able to proceed with a typical "purchase" of the item. (See Disclaimer/Note above) If the family member has multiple devices, repeat 2-5 for each device.
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Good luck!

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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..
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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?
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