Can you have family sharing without shared payment?

complete BS. what a ridiculous restriction.

The only way to do that is if the family members have a credit balance on their personal iTunes account from an iTunes gift card. Also, certain purchases require a credit card be used, such as recurring subscription purchases. Even if these users are adults and have their own credit cards attached to their personal accounts, one of the things about Family Sharing is using the credit card of the family organizer. See this support document with an explanation on purchases. Family purchases and payments - Apple Support You will see that it says if an adult member wishes to pay for their own purchase, they need to be removed from the family group.

I will be leaving Apple products behind because of this. I do not understand why they add in restrictions like this. I mean I get that they do not want friends sharing but I just see it as yet another example of Apple getting too greedy putting revenues ahead of customer satisfaction!

I have added my wife to the family, primarily so that she can access/contribute to a shared calendar to balance our work commitments centrally. I've started paying for her iTunes purchases which doesn't work.

Therefore I presume that given the payment set-up, family sharing isn't a usable solution. That however then makes me ask, how can we establish the same calendar sharing process on apple devices?

Thanks in advance.

You are not addressing Apple here, this is a user to user support forum, and Apple does not participate here. So no one here have anything to do with the terms and conditions. The Family Organizer is required to have a valid payment method, and there is a section here regarding valid payment methods for Family Sharing. Not all methods work in all areas. Payment methods that you can use in the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store - Apple Support

Sharing that payment method is a requirement of Family Sharing, and you can activate Ask To Buy as a restriction on those child devices to require that you approve purchases. If you purchase iTunes Gift cards for the children and have them redeem them on their account, not yours, they can make purchases that do not use your credit card.

If you have additional questions, you can use the support link at the top of the page to contact Apple.

Where does it says in your terms and conditions that you need a credit card for family sharing. All I can find is it stating that you need a valid payment type and under the list it has several other payment type like store credit. Not everyone wants to share there credit card with Apple on devices there children use.

I, probably like many others, just want the shared iCloud backup.

Can the Organizer not just disable the purchase sharing under the Shared features to stop shared payment?

If the two of you are attempting to share an iCloud calendar and are using different Apple IDs, then one of you would need to invite the other to share the calendar, and provide whatever permissions that you wish. From the iCloud calendar part of the iCloud.com page, you can click on your calendar which provides you a dialog box to invite a person to share the calendar and also what privileges you give them, either view only, or view and edit.

coy.Ote wrote:

complete BS. what a ridiculous restriction.

And what is your question?

Thanks, will take a look.

You're welcome.