One adult in your household — the family organizer — invites your family members. When family members join, they get instant access to the group’s subscriptions and content that are eligible for sharing. Each family member uses their own account, so everyone’s experience stays personalized and private.
Set up Family Sharing.
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When you set up purchase sharing, everyone in the family gets access to the apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books that family members buy. The content automatically appears on the Purchased page in the App Store, iTunes Store, Apple Books, or Apple TV app. Some items can't be shared.
Whether it’s music, TV and movies, news, games, or keeping your photos and files up to date across all your devices with iCloud, Apple subscriptions have something for everyone. With Family Sharing, your whole family can share access to the same Apple subscriptions. And with Apple One, you can bundle everything together for one low monthly price. You can also share some other subscriptions that you sign up for in apps from the App Store.
See which subscriptions you can share with family.
When you share an iCloud storage plan, family members can't see each others’ photos, files, or documents. And when you share other subscriptions like Apple Music, Apple Fitness+, or Apple TV+, each person sees their own preferences and recommendations — not the whole family’s.
Want to keep purchases private? You can hide individual items or choose not to share your purchases.
Parents can create Apple IDs for kids under 13* in their family. With an Apple ID, a child can use their own account on their own device — and even make their own purchasing decisions. But with integrated parental control features, parents can still set limits.
* Age varies by country or region.
If you want to see and approve what kids download, set up Ask to Buy. When a child asks to buy apps, movies, or other content, an alert is sent to the family organizer, who can approve or decline it right from their device.
Set up Ask to Buy.
With Apple Cash Family, your child or teen can send or receive money in Messages and make purchases with Apple Pay. Parents can send allowance or spending money directly to children. And parents can see and limit kids' spending.
Set up Apple Cash Family.
With Screen Time, you can keep an eye on how much time your kids spend using apps, visiting websites, and on their devices overall. Review your kids’ activity reports and set time limits for specific apps right from your own device. You can also name another family member as a parent/guardian so that you’re always on the same page when it comes to your kids and their screen time.
Use Screen Time.
Set up Apple Watch for a school-aged child who doesn’t have their own iPhone. Kids can use their Apple Watch to make phone calls, send messages, and share their location with you. And parents can help kids stay distraction-free during school hours with Schooltime.
Set up a child's Apple Watch with Family Setup.
To help you stay coordinated, people in your family group can share locations. And you can help other family members find their devices if they are missing.
With Family Sharing, you can use the Find My app to share your location automatically with your family. If you need privacy, you can temporarily stop sharing your location. Just turn off Share My Location in the Find My app.
Your family members' devices appear in the Find My app. So it’s easier than ever to track down a missing or stolen iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Mac.
If you're signed in to the same iCloud and Game Center accounts on all of your devices, you can access your game saves and progress in Apple Arcade games on all of them. If you're a member of Family Sharing, everyone in your family can use Apple Arcade, but they won’t see your gameplay data.
If you can access your gameplay data on one device, but not on another, you might need to check your settings. Make sure that you have an iPhone or iPod touch with the latest version of iOS, an iPad with the latest version of iPadOS, a Mac with the latest version of macOS, or an Apple TV with the latest version of tvOS.
If you still don’t see your data and you were playing on a different device, check your settings on that device.
If you share your Apple TV with someone else, switch to your account before you play your Apple Arcade game.
If you still don’t see your data and you were playing on a different device, check your settings on that device.
If you share your Mac with someone else, make sure that you're logged in to your Mac with your own user profile, not someone else's account. Then make sure that you're signed in to the same iCloud and Game Center accounts that you use with Apple Arcade. If you share your Mac with other Apple Arcade users, they should do the same, using their own Mac user profile, iCloud, and Game Center accounts.
If you still don’t see your data and you were playing on a different device, check your settings on that device.
If you cancel your subscription to Apple Arcade for any reason, you can resubscribe and still access your gameplay data. If you wait too long, some of your game saves might not be supported by the time you resubscribe.
If you're not an Apple Arcade subscriber, you won't be able to play any Apple Arcade games, even if you downloaded them to your device. Delete the apps if you don't need them anymore, or resubscribe to keep playing.
Learn how to find and play games with Apple Arcade.