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WizardHunt

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May 11, 2007
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Las Vegas, Nevada USA
I am trying to set up Family sharing. I think I did it right. I have myself as organizer and my wife included in family sharing along with my 13 year old son. Problem that we are having is the previous apps that I have bought for my son was under my name. Also he was previously setup with his own apple id and needed permission to buy apps on the app store. Then we added a gift card to my son's account and he bought ads himself with his amount on the gift card. However the apps he bought previously, are showing now as .99 cents full cost when in actuality he already bought them. What the heck happened? I thought it would share everything I bought at the app store as well as what he bought under his account. But since we did the family sharing thing it is not working as I thought it would. Am I not understanding how this works?

Shouldn't past apps purchased be available for download no matter if they were originally bought by me , my wife or my son when he had his solo account?

Any advice would be so appreciated.
Thanks
 
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