Family sharing but allow other adults also to make their own purchases

Members of a family sharing group can add store credit to their account to pay for their purchases, but the family organizer's payment method will always be used if needed. If I recall you may occasionally need to give members the CVV code of your card for verification purposes, but no other information needs to be shared with them. Purchases by adults don't require permission.

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Clifford Ando wrote:

I want to be able to share Apple Music with my family, but my partner wants retain her own normally-functioning account for other purposes, e.g., the App Store. But that option appears to be foreclosed.

In a family sharing group nothing is automatically added to the other users devices or libraries, but you can review what other parties have purchased and then add it to your library or device should you choose, and if you happen to search for the same item in the store you'll find it can be downloaded without charge. Data remains linked to individual Apple IDs.

Perhaps this is Apple's way of making sure that the people with whom one shares "Music" are people you really do feel close to, but it's not flexible enough for us.

Indeed, I think that is the point. It isn't meant for five friends or acquaintances to share all of each others purchases freely with each other.

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