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Locked out of Family Sharing for 364 days

I setup Family Sharing following the directions exactly. It didn't work. So I stopped family sharing, followed the directions and still no success. So, I figured I just did something wrong during setup. So, I repeated the process. When I went to setup family sharing the 3rd time, I received the message that I can not join or create a family sharing account for 364 more days because I am limited to 2 times per year.


Now I can't use the 1 service I was excited about in iOS 8. Apple support says they have no idea how to help me.


Any suggestions?

iPhone 5s, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 17, 2014 4:30 PM

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Posted on Sep 17, 2014 7:40 PM

not only is it totally ridiculous, but why is there no warning about this? "Hey, I see you're about to unjoin family share, just so you know you will be blocked for an entire year because apple rocks if you do this again!"


How hard is that to have that as a warning?

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Sep 18, 2014 7:30 AM in response to rennerk

Just got bumped up to a "senior advisor" ITunes had no fix. One lower level non-Applecare person suggested restoring everything to IOS 7 and then reinstalling IOS 8 and then backed away from advice after he thought about what he was saying.


Senior Advisor said a tool for his folks is supposedly up but he can't find it; calling engineering to see if a manual fix can be implemented until the tech tool becomes available. They're well aware of the issue.

Sep 18, 2014 7:33 AM in response to sjthone

Same issue here... This lock out covers all devices that I use my email with. Spoke with Tier I agent.. Was promptly moved to Tier II, agent took info awaiting a resolution call back as this will take more than the allotted time to keep a customer waiting by apple. She was headed to speak with Engineering on the issue. I can't say it was ONE she appeared aware of or was listed in their KBases yet. I worked for Apple during the initial release of the iPad they will find a solution and if not their is always customer retention to speak with if the FEEDBACK does not work. Apple does care about it's customers I've experience this in the past with other bugs that left the complete phone nearly useless.

Sep 18, 2014 7:40 AM in response to Bill Allbritten

I was told the same thing last night and that they were going to email me their contact information so that I could call them back today if needed (I never got the email with the contact info) and I was told I would get a call back this morning by someone with a resolution (no callback was received.)

Sep 18, 2014 7:44 AM in response to fdsafasdfsdafdasfdafdfdasfdasfdsa

fdsafasdfsdafdasfdafdfdasfdasfdsa wrote:

and I was told I would get a call back this morning by someone with a resolution (no callback was received.)

maybe they don't yet have a resolution?

Maybe it's not as simple as looking through the troubleshooting info to find out how to fix it as it something may need to get reconfigured/updated.

Locked out of Family Sharing for 364 days

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