My wife and I have separate iCloud accounts. She has some music that I purchased from Apple on iTunes (a long time ago). When she syncs her phone with her computer, it will not let her sync the songs that I purchased. I have turned on Home Sharing and also allowed sharing media with guests, but she still gets that error message. We have looked in Music on her phone, but do not see a way to see the music on my computer.
Mac mini, macOS 14.0
Home Sharing generally allows you to share content among devices with the same Apple ID.
Use Home Sharing to share media from a computer to other devices - Apple Support
Use Family Sharing instead:
What is Family Sharing? - Apple Support
Set up Family Sharing - Apple Support
Home Sharing generally allows you to share content among devices with the same Apple ID.
Use Home Sharing to share media from a computer to other devices - Apple Support
Use Family Sharing instead:
What is Family Sharing? - Apple Support
Set up Family Sharing - Apple Support
This page gives some explanation but it excludes any discussion of music.
How to download apps and content that your family members purchased - Apple Support
I tried using it on my wife's computer with Books and I could see all of my purchases. I did not see any similar way to do that with the Music app.
Making progress. Thanks. I added my wife to family sharing and she accepted. How do we authorize the music she already has? She tried to sync her phone with her computer, and got this error message. We are clearly missing a step.
Thanks. I read all that before I posted. I'm not sure at this time how she got the songs I downloaded from my account onto her computer, but I'm pretty sure that at least some of them were from home sharing, even though her Apple ID is different from mine. Neither of us subscribes to Apple Music and have no desire to do so. So, that seems like an expensive proposition to sync a few songs.
Is there a way to authorize these songs on her computer by using my Apple ID now? Or is there a way to enter my Apple ID during the phone syncing process to allow them to be synced to the phone?
You do not have to subscribe to Apple Music in order to use Family Sharing. Generally, items acquired with one Apple ID cannot be transferred or merged with another Apple ID. If there is another way besides Family Sharing, I am not aware of it.
home sharing with separate icloud accounts
