Family Sharing improvements

Family Checklist

iPadOS’s family sharing and parental control features were already very good, but they’re much easier to view and change thanks to the new Family Checklist in Settings. Family Checklist makes it much easier to review and edit the parental control settings and content restriction settings you have for family members, as well as enabling or disabling location sharing and iCloud sharing. You can also create a ‘recovery contact’, a family member who can get you back into your iCloud account if you forget or lose your password.

Device Setup

Apple has also made some big improvements to the Quick Start process to make it easier and faster to set up new devices for your family members. If you already have accounts set up for them in Family Sharing, you’ll now see an option to set up the new device for that person – and if you use it, it’ll automatically set up the device with all the sharing and parental control options you’ve already set for that account. It’s not something you’ll use very often but it’s a very welcome improvement for anyone buying or passing on an iPad for a family member.