Family Sharing
Share your apps and media with your family, and enjoy theirs too
What is Apple One?
Apple offers a bundle of its subscription services available at a single monthly price.
It’s called Apple One, and it’s available in three tiers. Individual offers Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade and iCloud+ with 50GB of storage. Subscribers can share all except Apple Music with a family group. Family offers 200GB of iCloud+ storage and all services can be shared. Premier throws in News+ and Fitness+ and 2TB of storage. Again, it can all be shared with your family.
With Family Sharing, you can set up a family unit of up to six people.
Your family then get to share media, apps and more. If, for example, the kids all want the same game, you only have to buy it once. Everyone in your family group can download and enjoy it. If you purchase an app, the rest of your family can install it on their own devices without buying it again. If you all want to read the same book or listen to the same album, no problem. You only have to buy it once.
You can also set up a shared family photo album so all your family members can view, add to and edit family photos. If you pay for extra iCloud storage space, you can share it with your family group and if you subscribe to the Apple Music subscription service, for a little extra you can upgrade it to a family subscription which everyone can enjoy. Subscriptions to Apple News+, Apple TV+ or Apple Arcade can always be shared, with no subscription upgrade necessary.
Parental checks
When you have a Family Sharing group, you can set up an Apple device for a child. You can turn on Ask to Buy, so the child must get parental approval before making a purchase, make sure they’re not accessing age-restricted material and more. You can also set up Screen Time for the children’s devices, setting downtime and making sure they’re not spending too much time on social media.