Family Sharing Question

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Family Sharing Question

Hi everyone

My father has recently set up Family Sharing for my family. It's a great way to get apps and music they have bought that I haven't. But is automatically everything I have bought available for them? Is there a way to make possible they can't get to certain music I have bought. I have created a personal bond with my music, and I don't want them to just download all the music which I have spent years to search, I know you think it's rude, but I actually don't even want them to see what I've bought. They can have some albums, but not everything.

I hope you can help me.

Kind regards

Mahtias

iPhone 5, iOS 8

Posted on Oct 12, 2014 3:22 AM

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jeremy_v

Community Specialist

Oct 14, 2014 6:59 AM in response to Mathiasss

Hi Mathiasss,

Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.

Family Sharing is a nice feature, and its understandable that you may not want to share all of your purchases with your family.

If you hide a purchase on your account, it will not be shared through Family Sharing.

See this link for more information:

Family Sharing

All your family’s purchases, on all your family’s devices.

Once you’ve set up Family Sharing, all the songs, albums, movies, TV shows, books, and apps ever purchased by family members are immediately available to everyone else in the group. And, of course, so are new purchases. The content appears automatically in the Purchased tab in iTunes, iBooks, or the App Store for each family member. Just select the family member whose collection you’d like to browse, then download or play the content you choose. Other family members can access your collection in the same way. If you want to keep some purchases private, you can choose to hide individual items.

All the best,

Jeremy

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