My wife, son, and I have three logins on one iMac. How will that affect using the new Family Sharing abilities? We have two iPhone 5s(mom and dad), three iPad 2(dad, son, twins), and a iPad mini (dad/mom).
Will I need to delete logins (which help separate everyones purchases)?
Thank you.
OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Hi teamschultz,
Family Sharing is about different Apple ID's (or emails connected with them) not about User Accounts(Logins) on your Mac. So you do not have to delete any Logins. Important is what you have under Settings->iCloud in each of these accounts. Wether they have the same Apple ID or not. In the second case you can profit from family sharing as explained here: https://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/family-sharing/
jl
Got it. Thank you. Now in setting it all up: apple won't let me enter the age of my son. It says he is too young no matter what age i put him at. any ideas on how to fix that?
Thank you!
SS
Your child, if its under 13 years old, is not allowed to have its own apple id. This article points this out. See the Titel My child is 13 or under. Apple’s website says that children under 13 cannot create an Apple ID. Google has similar restrictions. What do I do? on http://irockanytimeanywhere.com/setting-up-an-apple-id-for-your-child/
But I am sure you will find more on that by googling it or look it up in this forum.
greetings jl
When you set up Family Sharing, the family organizer can create Apple IDs for their children under 13 yrs. old. See Family Sharing and Apple IDs for kids.
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