Paying for my own purchases in Family Sharing
My mom set up family sharing. But I am an adult and can pay for my own purchases. How can I do that?
MacBook Pro, iOS 8.1
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My mom set up family sharing. But I am an adult and can pay for my own purchases. How can I do that?
MacBook Pro, iOS 8.1
My dad set up family sharing and doesn't always update his credit card information. I am an adult but because of that, I sometimes can't even download apps that are free. Apple definitely needs to change this system.
All you need to do is purchase iTunes gift cards and keep them on your account. Then it will use these before using your mom's credit card.
Brett I have done as you said and purchased a gift card to keep on my account and added it to my personal id as I don't want to use my sisters card on our family sharing. It's still asking me for her payment method?!
Have you actually gone through with a purchase to see what is charged for it ?
Have you gone through with any of the purchases, does it actually charge the organiser's card ?
I have. And it does charge his CC instead of redeeming the iTunes balance.
Have you gone through with a purchase and got him to enter the card's code ? Is that card actually charged (except for a temporary store holding charge) for the purchase ?
Nothing like a condescending yet unhelpful response. Thanks for that.
If the account is in a Family Share you can't use your own credit or debit card. You can use iTunes gift cards, I use them for all of my purchases, including iCloud storage
It is working as designed, Apple are not saying that it's a feature, and it's not a bug. If you don't like the current design use the feedback site to leave feedback to Apple
And ? I'm not in any way responsible for how Family Share works.
I just want Apple to know
Apple are not here, these are user forums. If you want to leave feedback to Apple use the feedback link already posted on this thread
Paying for my own purchases in Family Sharing