Merging family plan

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Merging family plan

my husband, he send an invitation to me to join family sharing. However, it won’t let me since I have the kids in my account. Can we merge together?? If so how? Thanks.

iPhone XS Max, iOS 15

Posted on Jun 16, 2022 9:49 PM

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Chattanoogan

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Jun 17, 2022 5:44 AM in response to Shichimi

Sounds like you’ve got it.

Restated … any one individual (AppleID) may be a member of ONLY one family.

AND … any family may only have ONE “Organizer.”

Note that moving kids between families is a multi-step process requiring CAREFUL adherence the steps outlined here:

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

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muguy

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Jun 16, 2022 10:29 PM in response to onni128

Sure. The children need to be moved to the new family first.

Move a child to another group using Family Sharing - Apple Support

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Shichimi

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Jun 16, 2022 10:45 PM in response to onni128

Since you already are the head of a "family," it might be easier to have your husband join your family plan.

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Shichimi

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Jun 17, 2022 4:55 AM in response to onni128

As I understand it, there is exactly one head of a family. Either you continue to manage the kids or hand it over completely to your husband. It might be easier to keep the family to yourself but set up a junk iPhone with your Apple ID that your husband can grab when he needs to do some parenting and your iPhone isn't available to him.

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onni128 Author

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Jun 17, 2022 4:28 AM in response to muguy

ah, thank you. Does that change all the setting I set for the kids??

i would like to merge account so my husband can help set control on Screen times. However I don’t want to loose all the account settings. Not sure which one is easier.

my husband and I each have our Apple ID and accounting since IPhone 3. So we never thought about family plan until kids are started using more their device and we would like to share the screen time control.

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onni128 Author

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Jun 17, 2022 4:30 AM in response to Shichimi

Thank you. That’s might be an easier option.

I would like to merge account so my husband can help set control on Screen times. However I don’t want to loose all the account settings. Not sure which one is easier.

my husband and I each have our Apple ID and accounting since IPhone 3. So we never thought about family plan until kids are started using more their device and we would like to share the screen time control.

does it maa aww or sense??

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onni128 Author

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Jun 18, 2022 2:57 AM in response to Chattanoogan

Thanks! I’ll just do that.

thanks all for the advise. Much appreciated.

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Jun 18, 2022 3:06 AM in response to onni128

Certainly welcome.

Have a great weekend!

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