family sharing with multiple credit cards

You are most welcome! I agree, I think it would be a great idea for Apple to come up with something similar for Adult Family Share that would allow you to share your data, but each pay individually via their own payment method (not just a gift card).

Just an FYI - if everyone is game in the group, it is extremely easy to purchase a gift card for yourself and put it on your own iTunes account (I do it all the time for testing):

In iTunes on their computer, click Store, then on the right under Quick Links, click on Send Gift

Gift card option comes up - fill out your own email address, pick the amount, and send it to yourself

It can take a little while to get the email - sometimes a few hours 🙄

Or....in a few seconds - I just got mine

Click on the Redeem Now button in the email

It goes to an annoying Connect to iTunes screen

Click on Connect Link option

iTunes will display, followed by an option to spend your gift either:

In the iTunes Store

Or for 6 Months of Apple Music

I guess you know which one to select 🙂

My point is that it is quick and easy to keep the balance loaded up!

Cheers,

GB

GB

I think the payment method is quite clever. Clearly the objective is to keep copyright digital media sharing limited to within a group that might traditionally have access to a common collection of CDs or movies as a family might have. Requiring a single person to take ultimate responsibility keeps it within an intimate social grouping, otherwise they might as well rename it 'Any-group-of-5-people-I-know Sharing'. You have to keep in mind who is likely really concerned about digital media sharing and what kind of controls they may have over distribution policies with un-named parties 😉 .

To have your personal purchases on your personal credit card and not the family purchases, you could set up the other accounts with a gift card that gives them store credit. See the article:

Family purchases and payments - Apple Support

Especially the section:

Making purchases

After you set up your family, any time a family member initiates a new purchase it will be billed directly to your account, unless that family member has gift or store credit. First, their store credit will be used to pay the partial or total bill. The remainder will bill to the family organizer's card

I also meant to include this link:

Payment methods you can use in the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store - Apple Support

See this section:

Payment methods for Family Sharing

If you're using Family Sharing and you're the family organizer, you can use the following payment methods:

• Credit cards
• Debit cards
• China UnionPay
• Mobile phone billing

You can also create an account for a child under 13² using these payment methods, with the exception of mobile phone billing. (You can only create a child account with a post-paid mobile phone billing account.) After you create the child’s Apple ID, you can change your payment method to a different method, such as a China UnionPay debit card or a pre-paid mobile phone billing account.

require you to subscribe monthly or annually

Subscriptions are not shareable. Family Sharing has no benefit for susbscriptions.

Agreed, same issue here. I can't expect the main member to pay for EVERYTHING. Cant even download free apps without the security code from main members credit card. Come on Apple.

A Family Apple Music ssubscriotiins.is actually up to 6 discounted individual subscriptions.

Each members music library is unique.

Let me rephrase then. Generally subscriptions are not shareable.

Well I think that's highway robbery to charge new purchase on my credit card, which I need to pay out of my pocket, instead of my gift card, which I already paid for...

It would b nice to control adult purchases too. My account has gone negative from other family purchase.... very upse

Foiled again by the page 1 fluke....

GB