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Q: We activated family sharing. Is iCloud storage also shared in the family? What about iTunes match - is this storage also shared?

We activated family sharing. Is iCloud storage also shared in the family? What about iTunes match - is this storage also shared?

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Posted on Sep 19, 2014 11:44 AM

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Q: We activated family sharing. Is iCloud storage also shared in the family? What about iTunes match - is this storage also shared?

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  • by cyclejim,

    cyclejim cyclejim Sep 16, 2015 10:08 PM in response to paulocoxa
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    Sep 16, 2015 10:08 PM in response to paulocoxa

    paulocoxa wrote:

     

    You can go on Icloud settings of familys idevices and change the icloud login to the family organizer who has the biggest Icloud Storage. The Itunes login won't change and you family members will start to use the same icloud space you have.

     

    It will also work to use Itunes match on all your family's idevices.

    That never occurred to me, but if I recall correctly you can't add family members to the Family group if they have the same iCloud ID set up on their device. Pretty sure I was getting an error message when I first tried to set up family sharing and ended up creating unique Apple IDs for everyone.   I will try it again and report back if its possible to have the same iCloud ID on all devices while also having them in a Family group. 

  • by Matt Number 8,

    Matt Number 8 Matt Number 8 Oct 15, 2015 6:55 AM in response to eldonp
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    Oct 15, 2015 6:55 AM in response to eldonp

    Poor form Apple...tricked into thinking that purchasing storage and adding family members will enable all the family can enjoy the additional storage. This was not clear from Apple and add mistrust. Why on earth can you share everything else but not storage, does not make any logical sense for me apart from money making on Apple's part.

  • by justanotheripoduser,

    justanotheripoduser justanotheripoduser Oct 27, 2015 12:59 AM in response to Matt Number 8
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    Oct 27, 2015 12:59 AM in response to Matt Number 8

    Not quite everything else. App vendors can opt out, in-app purchases we always excluded and apparently it iTunes Match and/or music is excluded.  Given that there are workarounds to all of these that any family or close friends can use and that these generally mean not using these Apple Features, you'd think Apple would want to fix them and make their resource-sharing ecosystem truely "family" friendly.

  • by red.radar,

    red.radar red.radar Oct 27, 2015 7:44 PM in response to eldonp
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    Oct 27, 2015 7:44 PM in response to eldonp

    I found for my family that Microsoft's Office 365 was a good deal.  We get office across the families devices and each member gets 1TB of storage for onedrive.  All for 99 bucks a year.  The only complaint I have about the arrangement is that the one drive app doesn't really upload photos in the background cleanly.  It needs access to gps to hack its way as a background service.  A practice that is common amongst competitive cloud storage providers.    However it works. 

     

    nice thing about one drive is the photos are files and don't get sucked up into Photo's database.  Not as elegant as using apple's native cloud storage, but until family sharing of iCloud storage happens its the most cost effective way.

  • by serkanfrombursa,

    serkanfrombursa serkanfrombursa Oct 27, 2015 7:59 PM in response to eldonp
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    Oct 27, 2015 7:59 PM in response to eldonp

    U

  • by bsaberi,

    bsaberi bsaberi Dec 25, 2015 7:34 PM in response to serkanfrombursa
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    Dec 25, 2015 7:34 PM in response to serkanfrombursa

    I just setup family sharing for my family.  The main purpose was to share icloud storage for backup purposes for all our phones.  I was very dismayed to find out that icloud storage sharing is not included in family sharing.  There is absolutely no reason for Apple to do this except to make more money by forcing us to pay for multiple 200GB drives.  I hope Apple listens to it's customers and fixes this problem.

  • by Ddenzel1551,

    Ddenzel1551 Ddenzel1551 Jan 18, 2016 11:40 PM in response to bsaberi
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    Jan 18, 2016 11:40 PM in response to bsaberi

    Despicable. Nothing surprises me from Apple now a days though. Which is rather sad.

  • by flafferty,

    flafferty flafferty Mar 21, 2016 1:30 PM in response to jacool
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    Mar 21, 2016 1:30 PM in response to jacool

    Good Point and very frustrating! I wanted to move our music library/photos/media to icloud thinking my wife and I could share it. This doesn't make sense!

    Looks like I'll have to move to another cloud service.

  • by NHZA,

    NHZA NHZA May 13, 2016 9:21 AM in response to eldonp
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    May 13, 2016 9:21 AM in response to eldonp

    What load of BS   cancelling my subscription today.

  • by BigRubi,

    BigRubi BigRubi Jun 17, 2016 8:29 AM in response to dave124
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    Jun 17, 2016 8:29 AM in response to dave124

    I would gladly pay a single annual subscription for enough iCloud storage for my entire family to share.  Keep it simple !

  • by jlvandervelden,

    jlvandervelden jlvandervelden Aug 11, 2016 12:29 PM in response to eldonp
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    Aug 11, 2016 12:29 PM in response to eldonp

    It's not very nice that you can't share iCloud storage with your family. I'm being polite here. It s*cks!!!

  • by moneymajak,

    moneymajak moneymajak Sep 17, 2016 4:30 PM in response to eldonp
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    Sep 17, 2016 4:30 PM in response to eldonp

    Just activated family sharing with my son and realized that the storage cannot be shared.  Really!!! That's cheap!  Apple trying to milk money like this?  Hope they correct this some day.

  • by joe@ma,

    joe@ma joe@ma Sep 19, 2016 6:47 AM in response to eldonp
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    Sep 19, 2016 6:47 AM in response to eldonp

    Did this change with iOS 10?

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