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Change the services family members use in Family Sharing on Mac
If you’re the family organizer, you can manage the services that the members of your Family Sharing group can use. You can also manage parental controls features such as Ask to Buy and Screen Time.
Manage subscription and purchase sharing settings
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
> System Settings, then click Family in the sidebar.If you don’t see Family, set up Family Sharing.
Do any of the following on the right:
Start or stop sharing your purchases with your family: Click Purchase Sharing, click your name, then turn Share My Purchases on or off.
Turn purchase sharing for your family on or off: To turn on purchase sharing for your Family Sharing group, click Purchase Sharing, then click Set up Purchase Sharing, or, if you don’t have a payment method set up, click Add Payment Method, then follow the onscreen instructions.
To turn off purchase sharing for your Family Sharing group, click Stop Purchase Sharing.
View and manage shared subscriptions: Click Subscriptions, then do one of the following:
View shared subscriptions: View a list of subscriptions shared with your family and who’s sharing them.
Apple subscriptions, except iCloud+, are automatically shared with your family.
If you subscribe to iCloud+ and are sharing it with your family, click iCloud+ to view available storage and how much storage each family member is using. Click Manage Subscription for more information about your plan, or click Stop Sharing with Family to stop sharing iCloud+ with your family members. Family members can also choose to keep their own individual storage plans. If you stop sharing iCloud storage, family members are given a grace period to continue using the shared storage, after which they need to purchase a storage plan of their own.
Manage subscriptions: Click Manage to view and manage your subscriptions.
View subscriptions you can share: View a list of services you subscribe to that are available to share with your family, but that you haven’t shared yet. To share, click the name of the subscription, then follow the onscreen instructions.
Learn about other Apple subscriptions: Below Discover More, click Apple Subscriptions or click the name of a service, such as iCloud+.
Explore more family subscriptions in the App Store: Click Discover next to Subscriptions for Family.
For information about combining your Apple subscriptions, see the Apple Support article Bundle Apple subscriptions with Apple One.
Manage location sharing settings
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
> System Settings, then click Family in the sidebar.If you don’t see Family, set up Family Sharing.
Click Location Sharing on the right, then do any of the following:
Choose whether or not to share your location with each family member: Turn location sharing on or off for each family member.
Automatically share your location with any new family members who join later: Turn on Automatically Share Location.
Learn how to set up location sharing on all your Apple devices: Click “Learn more.”
Manage parental controls features
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
> System Settings, then click Family in the sidebar.If you don’t see Family, set up Family Sharing.
Do any of the following on the right:
Manage screen time for a child: Click the child’s name. In the dialog that appears, click Screen Time in the sidebar. Click Open [child]’s Screen Time to get weekly reports about children’s screen time and set limits for what you want to manage. For more information about Screen Time, see What is Screen Time?
Turn Ask To Buy on or off for a child: Click the child’s name. In the dialog that appears, click Ask to Buy in the sidebar. Turn Require Purchase Approval on or off. See Turn on Ask to Buy for Family Sharing purchases.