Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Family Sharing Help

L

lexluthor

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Sep 21, 2014
4
0
I had made a previous purchase of the Plex app under my apple ID well before Family Sharing started.

I'm part of a family share (not the organizer). My apple ID shows up as sharing apps on the other phones.

When I go to Plex in the appstore on a phone logged into a different itunes account, but one that's in the family share, Plex is showing up as a $4.99 download.

How do I download that for free on the other phones in the family share under their IDs?
 
Some apps are marked "not shareable."

To check, look on your own phone under purchased and find that app. See what it says.
 
fanchee said:
Some apps are marked "not shareable."

To check, look on your own phone under purchased and find that app. See what it says.
Click to expand...

Thanks, but Plex says shareable. I should have noted that in my OP.

Any other ideas?
 
Ahhh, ok. On the other phone, in the App Store, click on purchased. You should see your own account show up there, as well. Click on that and download shareable apps from there, not directly from the App Store.

Hope that's it.
 
fanchee said:
Ahhh, ok. On the other phone, in the App Store, click on purchased. You should see your own account show up there, as well. Click on that and download shareable apps from there, not directly from the App Store.

Hope that's it.
Click to expand...

Wow, that's really confusing. Who would know to do that.

Seems to have worked, though it was showing up under purchases for my wife's apple id, not mine. I was able to install it free though on my daughter's iphone.

But, looks like I really screwed something else up. On my wife's phone, I previously changed the family purchases ID to my apple ID. When I go into purchases on her phone, it says something like the family purchases ID doesn't match the icloud account and I see nothing at all under purchases. When I try to change it back to her account, it says cannot change account for 89 days.

Now what?
 
lexluthor said:
Wow, that's really confusing. Who would know to do that.

Seems to have worked, though it was showing up under purchases for my wife's apple id, not mine. I was able to install it free though on my daughter's iphone.

But, looks like I really screwed something else up. On my wife's phone, I previously changed the family purchases ID to my apple ID. When I go into purchases on her phone, it says something like the family purchases ID doesn't match the icloud account and I see nothing at all under purchases. When I try to change it back to her account, it says cannot change account for 89 days.

Now what?
Click to expand...
Is there any way to resolve this?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back