Q: Questions re: family sharing

http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/family-sharing/You won't have to download all the applications and books she does you'll just have the option. Make sure you go into settings >iTunes and App Store and turn off automatic downloads.

Also see this link:http://www.apple.com/icloud/family-sharing/

and this link:Share purchased content with Family Sharing - Apple Support

edit: I may have misunderstood your post. If she actually wants to buy stuff separately this won't work.

Nope. Family Sharing is designed to use one central account for purchases and pay for them through its associated credit card.i.e The Family Organizer.

She can redeem iTunes gift cards to her account and the balance will be used before charging the credit card. But Family Shared accounts since they are designed to be used for Children without credit cards, have no provision for charging an associated credit cards, except for the Family Organizer's .

In other words, Family Sharing is not designed for adults to share content.

Maybe this is just a mattee of semantics, but I see this situation a little differently.

There is absolutely no reason why a husband and wife cannot Family Share. I see users recommending that husbands and wives use Family Sharing all the time. This way couples that shared an Apple ID for all these years so that they could share purchases can now have their own iCloud accounts and still share purchases. There have been quite a few discussions lately where couples were seeing their spouse's texts or phone calls on their devices because they have been sharing an Apple ID and were signed into the same iCloud account. Family Sharing prevents that.

Yes, Family Sharing made it easy and acceptable for children under the age of 13 to have their own Apple ID's now, as long as one person assumes the responsibilty of being the account manager, oversees everything, and pays with the one credit card that the account manager controls, but all members of the family shared account can purchase the content that appeals to them, and share that content with each other. I see no reason why it can't be a husband and wife. I have never read anything where Apple says that it can't be that way.

This article says nothing at all about this having to be a family that includes children, it just allows for children to have their own Apple ID's now while mom or dad can control what they purchase.

http://www.apple.com/icloud/family-sharing/

So the bottom line is that your wife can purchase any content that she pleases, as long as you use the same credit card or as long as she buys iTunes gift cards. She doesn't need her own iTunes purchasing account. That's one of the benefits of using Family Sharing. She can have her own Apple ID, buy what she wants to buy and you two can share whatever you want to share with each other.

Demo you made a great point and explained your thinking in great way. As I was rereading the family sharing information the sample family had the husband/dad as the organizer and the mom/wife as a family member. This would be the same situation as the sample family minus the children.-AJ

I may be totally wrong about the whole thing, but I have never read anywhere that a husband and wife cannot family share.

For years, people complained about not being able to share content without sharing the same Apple ID. A lot of what I read on other tech sites, leading up to the release of iOS 8 and the highly anticipated feature of family sharing, touted this a finally being the fix for that particular dilemma. Granted, I have never read where Apple specifically stated that this was the answer to all the people that wanted to share purchases without sharing an ID, but like I said, I have never read anywhere that Apple said it isn't allowed.

Demo wrote:

 

I may be totally wrong about the whole thing, but I have never read anywhere that a husband and wife cannot family share.

My wife and I do it.  In our case, it doesn't help much with costs because we really don't have the same tastes.  However, it makes the billing easier for us.  There is also a side benefit.  Either of us can log into iCloud and use "Find my iPhone" to locate the other.  No, it's not a matter of spying - we've been married for 45 years and we're planning for another 45.

It's weird.  People talk about compatibility between married partners.  We couldn't possibly be more incompatible!  We can't even agree on when to run the dishwasher.  However, we do have something else.

I'm sure that many, couples are using Family Sharing. As I stated, this finally fixed the problem of not being able to share purchased content without using the same Apple ID. I don't see this being a breach of the rules of using Family Sharing in any way, shape or form.

Philly_Phan wrote:

There is also a side benefit.  Either of us can log into iCloud and use "Find my iPhone" to locate the other.  No, it's not a matter of spying - we've been married for 45 years and we're planning for another 45.

 

It's weird.  People talk about compatibility between married partners.  We couldn't possibly be more incompatible!  We can't even agree on when to run the dishwasher.  However, we do have something else.

This made me chuckle and its also something to which I can relate.

I track my wife's progress on her way home from work when we are planning dinner or meeting to go out somewhere after work. She works some 35 miles from where we live and it can take her upwards of 90 minutes to get home when traffic is bad. With the Find My Wife iPhone app, I can get a really good idea of where she is, and how much longer it will take her to get home.

As for the incompatibility issue, your marriage sounds like a mirror image of mine. We don't have quite as many years. We are coming up on 34 soon. We never agree on anything, but I don't know what I would do without her. I am hoping for another 34 years as well.