Family Sharing Says I Have To Wait A Year?
Does anyone know why I have to wait a Year or 260 more days to join a family?
iPhone 12 Pro Max, 15
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Two related statements from Apple. I'll let you decide if they say the same thing.
Set up Family Sharing - Apple Support
"Remember, you can only join one family at a time, and you can only switch to a different family group once per year." June 2021
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms.html
D. "Family Sharing Rules: You can only belong to one Family at a time, and may join any Family no more than twice per year. You can change the Apple ID you associate with a Family no more than once every 90 days. All Family members must share the same Home Country."
As for why, I know what I think is the reason but Apple doesn't say why and we're not supposed to guess here.
If you want to ask Apple:
Contact Apple. Click here --> https://support.apple.com/choose-country-region Select your country, then a product. If you don't see one that handles your issue then keep experimenting with selections until you reach one that gets you a chat session or a telephone call and get the representative to redirect you.
or:
Contact Apple for support and service --> "See a list of Apple phone numbers around the world."
Click here --> https://support.apple.com/HT201232