I was paying for extra storage for my now adult children, and now I wish for them to pay for it themselves. Do I just delete them from the family? There’s nothing we share particularly , so is this the easiest way?
iPhone X, iOS 16
Only one person, the Organizer, can (and must) have a card, but the Organizer can avoid having this charged by others by asking them to make sure they have adequate personal balance (e.g., from gift cards How to redeem your Apple Gift Card, App Store Card, or App Store & iTunes Gift Card - Apple Support) to cover their purchases. Other family members can only pay for things by using their personal balance or by letting the remainder automatically roll over to the Organizer's payment method (such as a credit card but not the Organizer's personal account balance).
The alternative is described in this document: Add a family member to your shared subscriptions - Apple Support
"If you're the family organizer and you don't want to pay for family members' purchases and subscriptions, you can turn off Purchase Sharing [ How to share apps and purchases with Family Sharing - Apple Support ]. When Purchase Sharing is turned off, everyone must use their own payment method. When Purchase Sharing is turned off, family members can share subscriptions, but they can't share individual purchases like apps or books."
Another alternative would be for a person to leave the family group altogether. However, a person can only join one family per year.
Only one person, the Organizer, can (and must) have a card, but the Organizer can avoid having this charged by others by asking them to make sure they have adequate personal balance (e.g., from gift cards How to redeem your Apple Gift Card, App Store Card, or App Store & iTunes Gift Card - Apple Support) to cover their purchases. Other family members can only pay for things by using their personal balance or by letting the remainder automatically roll over to the Organizer's payment method (such as a credit card but not the Organizer's personal account balance).
The alternative is described in this document: Add a family member to your shared subscriptions - Apple Support
"If you're the family organizer and you don't want to pay for family members' purchases and subscriptions, you can turn off Purchase Sharing [ How to share apps and purchases with Family Sharing - Apple Support ]. When Purchase Sharing is turned off, everyone must use their own payment method. When Purchase Sharing is turned off, family members can share subscriptions, but they can't share individual purchases like apps or books."
Another alternative would be for a person to leave the family group altogether. However, a person can only join one family per year.
Remove them from the family, or turn off Purchase Sharing, or tell them to redeem gift cards into their individual accounts.
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I’ll turn off purchase sharing just in case they need to share location at any time. Thank you
Paying for iCloud storage for family members
