Family sharing valid payment

I had this issue - and played around with settings as described below.

1. on the wife's phone into SETTINGS > ITUNES APP STORE - then clicking on the user id - then selecting View Apple Id

This then transferred to web interface - and I logged in using wife's account - it immediately said the password was not secure and forced me to change it. (It did not do this on the primary account) I entered a new password.

As soon as I re-entered the new password whenever prompted

2. Then went to SETTINGS > ICLOUD > FAMILY - I could see the "family" and at the bottom it showed "shared payment method" listing the credit card on file and who it was provided by (primary account holder) The downloads of shared apps worked after this.

I don't know that changing the password made this happen of if step one was necessary - but this is how I fixed it.

I had the same problem; I did what jsnola said except I didn't change the password and that fixed the problem anyway.

Cool!

From what I've read, at the present time it only works with credit cards, not debit cards. If you're using a debit card with Family Sharing you might try replacing it with a credit card.

Also check to see if your credit card number is valid. I had new cards issued with new numbers so the card number on file on the Organizer's phone was old and invalid. The error message I got was the same as in the original post and it did not say WHY the payment method was invalid.

If you're already using a valid credit card, I can't explain what would cause that.

Thanks jsnola. I changed password and it worked.

Worked for me as well. Thanks!

Thanks, jsnola! Your tip helped me get family sharing working between our two iPad Airs!

-Alan G

Thanks jsnola

I also got the same message after setting up Family Sharing with my son. I corrected the problem by going into my iTunes account and verifying that the card info was correct. Turns out that the security code was not stored on my iPhone or iPad. I recently updated the credit card info on my Mac, using the full iTunes. Lesson learned, check the basics and ensure that all of the payment info is all there. Once the security info was entered, everything worked fine and he could download movies that I had purchased.

It seems that any change in an organizer's iCloud account fixes this issue. I've re-edit my debit card with exactly the same card and then I was able to install my shared application on other account.

Had this happen on my daughters 5c just signed her out of store and then signed her back in at it works fine

I had the same problem. I signed out and back again using my child's iCloud account on the iPad but it did not help. Then I went to my (family organiser) iTunes account, reentered my credit card information(although it was valid) and that solved the problem straight away.