I was invited to share a family member's Apple TV subscription. Now, a few months later, I can't purchase an app as it is not letting my saved payment options show but defaulting to the family member. I'd rather pay for my own apps and stuff. I am not given any option to add a card or anything - just says Family Member needs to update a card. This person is traveling internationally and i just want to pay for something.
iPhone SE
Niel summarizes your solution with brevity. You may wish to familiarize yourself with some of the details before making a decision. Note that if you leave the family group you lose access to items arising from that sharing and there are restrictions to re-joining groups.
Leave Family Sharing - Apple Support
Legal - Apple Media Services - Apple
D. "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."
September 16, 2021
From: How to share purchases with your family - How to share purchases with your family - Apple Support
"When you turn on purchase sharing, everyone in your family gets access to apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books that family members buy. The family organizer is billed for family members' purchases"
The second phrase is a bit over-simplified because others can still pay for their own items, they just have to use personal account balance to do so. Turning on purchase sharing simply activates the feature whereby if a family member does not have adequate personal balance to pay for something then the organizer's payment method (e.g., credit card) will be charged.
Read the document for the link to "learn how purchases are billed if a family member has Apple ID balance"
Add money to your Apple Account balance - Apple Support
Niel summarizes your solution with brevity. You may wish to familiarize yourself with some of the details before making a decision. Note that if you leave the family group you lose access to items arising from that sharing and there are restrictions to re-joining groups.
Leave Family Sharing - Apple Support
Legal - Apple Media Services - Apple
D. "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."
September 16, 2021
From: How to share purchases with your family - How to share purchases with your family - Apple Support
"When you turn on purchase sharing, everyone in your family gets access to apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books that family members buy. The family organizer is billed for family members' purchases"
The second phrase is a bit over-simplified because others can still pay for their own items, they just have to use personal account balance to do so. Turning on purchase sharing simply activates the feature whereby if a family member does not have adequate personal balance to pay for something then the organizer's payment method (e.g., credit card) will be charged.
Read the document for the link to "learn how purchases are billed if a family member has Apple ID balance"
Add money to your Apple Account balance - Apple Support
Click here and follow the instructions to leave the group, or redeem gift cards into your individual account.
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Thanks for the info. It's curious to me that the organizer who is sharing apple tv has to be in charge of all family purchases. Not sure why Apple is doing that. Surely there should be a way to toggle between the Organizers cc and the individuals.
Apple does not say why but if you think about it , it is a way of ensuring a "family" really is a group where one person trusts the others and not some random assortment of 6 people who may not know each other at all. To me it is a clever say of ensuring people do not abuse the system.
Adding a new credit card
