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Manage Family Sharing settings
Family sharing can be used by up to five family members to share subscriptions, purchases, photos, photo albums, a calendar, and more, all without sharing each other’s Apple accounts. To change your Family Sharing status, it’s good to know how the different roles within Family Sharing groups work. You can find Family Sharing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
If you’re sharing a Family iCloud storage plan, each person’s files and documents remain private, while the amount of storage space being used by each person is visible to all members.
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Find out how: To view a task below, select the plus button next to its title.
Types of Family Sharing members
Members of a Family Sharing group can have different roles depending on their age.
Note: The age at which someone is considered an adult or child varies by country or region.
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Organizer: An adult who sets up a Family Sharing group. The organizer can invite family members, remove family members, and disband the group.
Adult: A member of the Family Sharing group who’s 18 years or older.
Parent/Guardian: An adult member of the Family Sharing group who can help manage parental controls for children in the group. When the organizer adds an adult to the Family Sharing group, they can designate them as a parent or guardian.
Child or teen: A member of the Family Sharing group under the age of 18. The organizer, parent, or guardian can create an Apple ID for a child who’s too young to create their own.
In your household one adult, the family organizer, chooses the features the family shares and invites up to five additional members to join. After the invitations are accepted, Family Sharing is set up on everyone’s devices automatically—including a shared calendar and shared photo album. The organizer can add anyone who has an Apple ID to their family and remove anyone over the age of 13 from the family group.
You can check to see if you’re already part of a family in Settings > [your name]. If you see Set Up Family Sharing, you aren’t using Family Sharing with this Apple ID. If you see an icon with Family Sharing, you can tap the icon to see your family members and roles.
Removing family members
The organizer of a Family Sharing group can remove other members.
Note: To start removing family members, see the two tasks Remove members from a family group on your iPhone or iPad and Remove members from a family group on your Mac.
Also, any family member over the age of 13 can remove themselves from a family group at any time. Just select your name and then select Leave Family. You can also sign in to the Apple ID website and choose Remove Account in the Family Sharing section.
For security reasons, a child (under 13) account can’t remove themselves from a family and can’t stop sharing details such as Screen Time without the Screen Time passcode. The organizer has access to shared family content on your device, such as shared photo albums and shared calendars, and can view Screen Time activity.
Note: The organizer can’t remove themselves from the Family Sharing group. If you want to change the organizer, you must disband the group and have another adult create a new one.
If a member is removed or leaves the Family Sharing group, they keep purchases paid for using the shared credit card, but they immediately lose access to other things the family members share:
Other family members’ items no longer appear in the Purchased section of the iTunes Store, the App Store, and Apple Books.
Protected (by copyright) music, movies, TV shows, books, and apps you previously downloaded are no longer usable if someone else originally purchased them. Other family members can no longer use this content downloaded from your collection.
In-app purchases become unavailable if you bought them using an app someone else originally purchased. You can regain access to the in-app purchases by purchasing the app.
Family members’ device locations don’t appear when you use the Find My app on iCloud.com or on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
If Family Sharing is turned off
If the family organizer turns off Family Sharing, all family members are removed from the family group at once. If there are children under 13 in the family group, you must transfer them to another family before you can disband yours.
Remove members from a family group on your iPhone or iPad
If you’re the family organizer:
Go to Settings
> [your name] > Family Sharing.
Tap [member’s name], then tap Remove [member’s name] from Family.
Note: If you’re the family organizer, you can’t remove yourself from Family Sharing.
Remove members from a family group on your Mac
If you’re the family organizer:
Do one of the following:
On your Mac running macOS 13 or later: Choose Apple menu
> System Settings, click Family Sharing
, then select Family Sharing in the sidebar.
On your Mac running macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, click Family Sharing
, then select Family Sharing.
Select the member in the list, then click the Remove button
.
Note: If you’re the family organizer, you can’t remove yourself from Family Sharing.
Leave a Family Sharing group on your iPhone or iPad
If you’re over the age of 13 and are a member of a family sharing group:
Go to Settings
> [your name] > Family Sharing.
Tap [your name], then tap Stop Using Family Sharing.
Leave a Family Sharing group on your Mac
If you’re over the age of 13 and are a member of a family sharing group:
Do one of the following:
On your Mac running macOS 13 or later: Choose Apple menu
> System Settings, click Family Sharing
, then select Family Sharing in the sidebar.
On your Mac running macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, click Family Sharing
, then select Family Sharing.
In the list of family members, click Details next to your name, click Stop Using Family Sharing, then follow the onscreen instructions.
Click Done.
Stop Family Sharing on your iPhone or iPad
You must be the family organizer to turn off Family Sharing.
Go to Settings
> [your name] > Family Sharing.
Tap your name, then tap Stop Using Family Sharing.
Stop Family Sharing on your Mac
You must be the family organizer to turn off Family Sharing.
Do one of the following:
On your Mac running macOS 13 or later: Choose Apple menu
> System Settings, click Family Sharing
, then select Family Sharing in the sidebar.
On your Mac running macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, click Family Sharing
, then select Family Sharing.
Click the Details button next to your name, then click Stop Family Sharing.