How to Enable Family Sharing in iOS 8 [For iTunes and App Store]

Family Sharing is one of the awesome and unique feature which has been included in iOS 8. It is used to share purchases between families on iTunes and Apple App store.

Furthermore, for sharing purchases you don’t need to have a same Apple ID as well which means you can share purchases on completely different devices. Along with that parent permission option is also included in this feature.

In which whenever your child make any purchase on iTunes or App store then you will receive a message on your device asking about the permit that purchase. You can permit your child to buy that app or simply deny that request by stopping your child from the purchase of that app.

More About Family Sharing Feature

It is one of the best and cool feature of iOS 8, I have personally liked this feature and that is why I am sharing it with you guys. This would be helpful for the parents, since, they can monitor the purchasing activities of their child.

You can add up to six family members into Family Sharing feature. Whenever any member purchases something from iTunes or App store then a request of accepting the purchase will be send to other.

You can share music, photos, movies or any other purchased stuffs. It gives you an automatic photo sharing feature. It also allows you to locate your family member.

Parental Control system for purchasing apps, this would be for children under 18. This is simply an great and awesome feature. You can done awesome and multiple jobs with it. We will keep sharing different tutorial on this feature.

Learn-How to Enable Family Sharing in iOS 8

Since, it is the feature of iOS 8 devices. So, if you have an Apple device with lesser versions of iOS then it will not work for you. So, the iOS 8 users can follow the simple steps which are mentioned below

• First of all go to Settings and then Tap on iCloud
• Afterwards, tap on Set up Family Sharing and then tap on Get Started
• Afterwards, tap on Continue and then you have to sign in there with your Apple ID and Password, which you use for purchases on iTunes and then it will ask you to Agree the terms and Condition. Simply agree with it
• After that, tap on Continue by confirming your payment method. Remember the complete purchases will be made from this account which you have confirmed
• Then choose whether you want to share your location with your family member or no
• Afterwards, tap on Add Family members
• Then keep on adding them by adding their names
• Congratulations! You are done

This was the main account, means the head of the family account who will grant permissions and will have full control

Conclusion

This was the complete tutorial which has made you learn that, “How to enable Family Sharing in iOS 8?” I am sure you would have loved this feature of iOS 8 and specially parental control.

However, if you have any question related to this feature then do share your questions with us. We shall try to remove your all related queries as soon as possible.

Additionally, we will be sharing some awesome tutorials related to Family sharing in coming days. So, don’t miss our coming tutorials and tricks in order to get connected and updated. Furthermore, don’t forget to share our articles with your friends.

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