Sharing apps with other family members

My husband and I have a desktop and two iPod touches. We have no problem sharing apps as we are using the same apple id.
I turned on home sharing so that I could share a couple of apps that we have purchased with my daughter. We authorized her laptop. We than transfered the purchased apps to her laptop. Then, we transfered the apps to her iPod. We turned on home sharing on the iPod. She can't open the apps. They appear to open but do not complete. If we have to use the same apple ID on her iPod to access the apps, it seems rather silly to allow us to transfer apps as well as music via home sharing from one computer to the other. I hope I am just doing something wrong. I really think that she should be able to purchase apps and music herself with her own id if wanted rather than having to pay me back for purchases made with my account.
I think Apple has made this far too complicated.

I figured out how to do it. If it has nothing to do with home sharing, then why does home sharing let you set to automatically copy all apps purchased on one computer to another if home sharing is on on that computer. Unfortunately, even though home sharing appears to allow it, it doesn't work properly that way. But, all I had to do was log in to my apple id on her iPod and then download the apps that I had purchased on her iPod and then I logged back out and the apps worked. I did the same with her iTunes.

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I buy an album, it begins to auto download to my sons library when he opens his itunes library. If I try to uncheck the auot download box in preferences on his library, the same boxes go unchecked in my library. If I have to do it manually, whats the point of being in the cloud?
Do I have to get everyone their own apple ID for itunes purchases?

Are you all using the same computer login with the same iTunes library?
If so, you cannot stop it because you are all using the same library.

I have been sharing an apple ID and icloud with other family members. How do I change my iphone so as to create my own account?

I have been sharing I-cloud with other family members. How do I change my i-cloud setting on my i-phone so as to creare my own account?

If you want to keep your iCloud data, you would need to migrate your device and a copy of the data to a new account. To migrate to a new account, start by saving any photo stream photos you wish to keep to your camera roll (unless already there) by opening your my photo stream album, tapping Select, tapping the photos, tap the share icon (box with upward facing arrow), then tapping Save to Camera Roll. If you are syncing notes with iCloud, you'll need to open each of your notes and email them to yourself so you can later copy and paste the text into new notes created in your new account. Then go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account (which only deletes it from this device, not from iCloud; others keeping the account will not be effected by this), choose Keep on My iDevice and provide the password to turn off Find My iPhone. Then sign back in with a different Apple ID to create your new account and choose Merge to upload your data.
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Can books be shared with other family members devices?

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I would like to know how I share songs and movies with other family members who have different accounts.

- Sync them from a computer. You can sync music and videos from different computers/iTunes library manually. See the manual method included in:
iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod
- You can also redownload the directly to a device if the device ha iTunes 5 or later by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
However, you may end up with the 90 day wait to. See:
iTunes Store: Associating a device or computer to your Apple ID

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I am the administrator of my iMac with other family members having accts.
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These are two possible approaches that will normally work to move an existing library to a new computer.
Method 1
Backup the library with this User Tip.
Deauthorize the old computer if you no longer want to access protected content on it.
Restore the backup to your new computer using the same tool used to back it up.
Keep your backup up-to-date in future.
Method 2
Connect the two computers to the same network. Share your <User's Music> folder from the old computer and copy the entire iTunes library folder into the <User's Music> folder on the new one. Again, deauthorize the old computer if no longer required.
Both methods should give the new computer a working clone of the library that was on the old one. As far as iTunes is concerned this is still the "home" library for your devices so you shouldn't have any issues with iTunes wanting to erase and reload.
I'd recommend method 1 since it establishes an ongoing backup for your library.
Note if you have iOS devices and haven't moved your contacts and calendar items across then you should create one dummy entry of each in your new profile and iTunes should merge the existing data from the device.
If your media folder has been split out from the main iTunes folder you may need to do some preparatory work to make it easier to move. See make a split library portable.
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Tnx for the reply, though I already feared this was the answer.
Family sharing works well for keeping contact lists separated and we do not need to see all the crap the other half shoots with their iPhone.
But as family-members, we DO want to use our communal photo-library.
It would be great if you could share your entire library with family-members or at least select which albums to share with who.
Also it is silly that you can share a photo only to one other iCloud-album. If I shoot a nice pic of the kids I would want to share it with my wife AND with others.
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How do I fix?

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I have an iphone
Daughter has an ipod
- - both use the same itunes account for store/music purchases within each device.
When using the Computer/iTunes
- - for simplicity sake I want to make a new Library for my daughters iPod, she just needs to see her simple song collection, not my EXTENSIVE one.
I would like her to be able to access my App library some how, since it is not as crazy/large.
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God Bless and Thanks in Advance !

When I'm listening mi iTunes, I'm able to see other
people libraries, and I wondering if its possible to
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No that would be stealing. You do not own the rights to that music.

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Be specific.
Everyone? or Every Device?
If every device, does that mean you can no longer share apps?
KiltedTim wrote:
You have configured multiple devices to use the same AppleID for iMessage.
Don't do that. iMessage is designed to sync messages between all devices configured with the same Apple ID.
Everyone should have their own Apple ID. They were never designed to be shared.

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