Family sharing

I have set up a child account on family sharing. My child's ipad is signed in with my apple ID. How do i switch my account on the ipad to my child's? Do i just sign out and sign in using my child's credentials?


iPad mini (6th generation)

Posted on Mar 29, 2023 11:27 AM

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Posted on Mar 30, 2023 6:25 AM

Your child should have their own AppleID - in fact, every user should have their own AppleID. This is essential to maintain intended separation of activities and to avoid unintended sharing of sensitive and data.


You may find this information to be helpful with setting-up an AppleID for a minor - and considering appropriate controls:


Apple for Kids - Official Apple Support

Help your child set up an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Family Sharing and Apple ID for your child – Apple Support

Use parental controls on your child's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch – Apple Support


If you have been sharing your AppleID with your child, so as to ensure proper separation between AppleID accounts, you would be best advised to completely erase and the iPad - and setup from scratch with the correct AppleID. This will remove any personal and sensitive information (such as your own keychain/passwords) from your child’s device:

What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

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Mar 30, 2023 6:25 AM in response to JoelTominey

Your child should have their own AppleID - in fact, every user should have their own AppleID. This is essential to maintain intended separation of activities and to avoid unintended sharing of sensitive and data.


You may find this information to be helpful with setting-up an AppleID for a minor - and considering appropriate controls:


Apple for Kids - Official Apple Support

Help your child set up an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Family Sharing and Apple ID for your child – Apple Support

Use parental controls on your child's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch – Apple Support


If you have been sharing your AppleID with your child, so as to ensure proper separation between AppleID accounts, you would be best advised to completely erase and the iPad - and setup from scratch with the correct AppleID. This will remove any personal and sensitive information (such as your own keychain/passwords) from your child’s device:

What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

Mar 30, 2023 8:42 AM in response to JoelTominey

Perhaps you didn’t get to the final paragraph…


… you would be best advised to completely erase and the iPad - and setup from scratch with the correct AppleID. This will remove any personal and sensitive information (such as your own keychain/passwords) from your child’s device:

What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

Mar 30, 2023 9:42 AM in response to JoelTominey

If you have already set-up the iPad with your own AppleID, your own personal and sensitive information (e.g., Saved Passwords, Calendar, Notes, Contacts, Messages, Reminders etc.) will likely have been synchronised with the iPad. In just signing out of your own AppleID - and signing-in with another - your sensitive data will be merged with that account that you subsequently sign into.


So as to prevent the data merge, you should properly prepare the iPad using the appropriate procedure. If you don’t use the correct procedure - and are willing to both accept and live with the consequences - you can follow the path of your own choice.

Mar 30, 2023 8:34 AM in response to LotusPilot

Thanks for the reply.


I have set up an Apple ID for her using family sharing. Is it just a case of signing out of my I cloud account/apple ID on her Ipad and signing back in with hers or do I have to do a reset?


Once done, will that then mean she won't have access to my messages etc and Face Time calls for her will go to her device and not mine?


I appreciate full separation of data would require a reset and set up from scratch.

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