I can’t transfer my child to another family with family sharing

Folks: I’m not doubting or second-guessing your experiences.

Simply trying to better understand and document at what steps in the published procedure (pasted and annotated below) the system is breaking-down.

Ref: Move a child to another group using Family Sharing – Apple Support (AU)

Confim running current iOS (15.5)

Please confirm that these steps are being performed on the “gaining familiy” Organizer’s iPhone.

Also, are the children successfully entering THEIR own unique AppleID and Password into the gaining organizer’s phone (Step 5)?

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Invite a child from your [gaining organizer] iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

1. Go to Settings [on gaining organizer’s phone]
2. Tap your [gaining organizer] name, then tap Family Sharing.
3. Tap Add Member
4. Tap Invite in Person.
5. Ask the child to enter their Apple ID and password. Find out what to do if the child has forgotten their password.
6. Follow the onscreen steps.
7. After the child's current family organiser has approved the request, provide parental consent and a valid payment method.
8. To check the status of the request, go to [gaining organizer] Settings, tap your [gaining organizer] name, tap Family Sharing, then tap the child's name.

Then … the “loosing” organizer should:

9) On your [loosing organizer] iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, tap Settings. Below your name, find a notification that says "Family Transfer Request". Tap the notification and follow the onscreen instructions.

I have the same problem. Tried every way to invite my child. It worked okay for my first kid, but my second kid who's in my wife's apple family cannot be transferred. Yes I tried the 'invite in person' option, invite via 'imessage', invite via email, invite via airdrop.... everything!!

The only difference I can find from my first kid is that the former had an apple id of email address while my second kid has an apple id with a phone number (the one who cannot be transferred). Is there no way to fix this? Am I missing something here?

I myself am trying on my mac. Not my iPhone. and yes, all of these steps are being followed, except, once I enter my child's id and password it says he is already part of another family so I cannot add him. It worked perfectly for my first kid, but my second kid is stuck on his old family. Now, I read somewhere that payments need to be set up for family sharing and in India, currently card payments are not supported but only to add funds, but my first kid was successfully added to my family without any issues even though payment sharing is not working for me now.

I am not sure about that since , both times all the parameters were similar. Payment sharing was not set up for me before either and my first kid was successfully added yet not the second. Is there a fix to this? I have just realized that even if my second kid is added back I cant make any payments for them since payment sharing is not working for me.

A child has to first be be "invited" by another family organizer ...

... and then "released" by their current organizer.

See:

Move a child to another group using Family Sharing – Apple Support (AU)

It’s not clear from your posts if you are following the instructions given in the instructional link.

Thanks for the quick reply.

That “seemingly minor” policy nuance might have indeed made the difference between how the two invitations were processed … or not processed.

Re: “… Is there a fix to this …”

I’m sure that there is, but you certainly seem to exhausted all “normal” methods available to you.

I suspect opening a “ticket” with Apple Support is in-order.

I’m glad you got it working.