Q: Family sharing - Stream movies to idevice instead of downloading?
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Sep 27, 2014 10:03 PMby Drjohn1969,Im bothered by this also. It just isnt practical to download movies. My family has enjoyed streaming movies from the video app using our shared apple id, but this new family sharing seem to eliminate that option. I may need to go back to sharing my apple id with the kids.
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Nov 5, 2014 4:40 PMby Anthony Belanger,I am curious about this also. You would think that the movies that are being shared would show up in the Video app and you could just stream them, the way that the Family "owner" can. Everyone else has to download them, unless you are on a computer (I think you can stream from a computer if you are a family member, but definitely not on the IOS devices). This needs to be fixed, as most people don't have the time to wait for the download, or the space on the device. It seems like it would be a really easy fix: they just need to set the Video app to look for those movies. Argh!
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Dec 4, 2014 7:30 PMby Sam Newhouse,Yeah it does seem weird that Apple hasn't changed this. I can, however, stream shared movies from my AppleTV. Just not any iDevices. It would be really nice if they did get it to work since I've mistakenly made iTunes purchases using two different Apple ID's. Was hopeful this would be an easy way to access movies from both accounts without having to hog up precious space on my iPhone/iPad.
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Dec 27, 2014 11:04 AMby tbanthony,Couldn't agree more. I bought my wife a new iPad and the sharing of the Apple ID was something I was looking forward to switching over to family sharing to simplify trying to manage multiple phone #'s and email addresses under one Apple ID by device and to also prepare for the day when my kids are teenagers and want their own accounts to make their own purchases, etc. Issues like having 5 devices ringing/buzzing away when someone calls me is annoying and could be tackled by adding Apple ID's and switching to family sharing. However, the inability to stream movies is an immediate deal killer. My wife wants to watch a movie while working out and certainly isn't going to wait for an hour for it to download first. Yuck!
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Feb 23, 2015 2:43 PMby Emulation,Home sharing is also no solution because you can't share other family member's purchases through home sharing. They do not show up as streamable options. It's a travesty that Apple sells 16GB iOS devices (5+GB taken up by OS and base apps), charges 2-5x for additional flash storage, won't allow flash upgrades and then won't allow streaming family share purchases.
Super frustrating.
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Dec 10, 2015 7:26 PMby sckistler,Yes! I am now experiencing this same stupid problem myself. I was frustrated setting up my daughters new iPad mini's for Christmas this year when I couldn't access my videos (movies) from the cloud on the video app. Works just fine on our old iPad. But now I realize that setting up family sharing for my kids that they won't be able to watch (stream) the movies I have paid for and associated with my iTunes account. Really Apple? I waited years before converting to Apple.....mostly because pc's usually cause me more issues and Apple products seem to work and have less problems. But the more experience I have with syncing, sharing, Apple ID's and such the more frustrated I get with this company. I used to think their products and programming were simple and just worked, however I am starting to believe that may not be the case. They also like to charge premium prices for a lot less (memory and such). And for heavens sake put a USB port in the thing!! I guess I drank the Apple cool aid......Maybe I shouldn't have.....
