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Family Sharing does... Nada

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MisterPunchy

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Set it up with me as organizer, my wife as a parent, and our 3 kids as members. The info and pictures on Apples instructional/info site show that in iTunes and App stores, the kids should all be able to click "purchased" and find a list of other family members to click on, and download apps, music, books, etc... Within the family. But there's nothing. No list of family members. No way to share any content, music, apps, books, anything.
So, what the F is the purpose if this? It does precisely nothing. Nice waste of programming, apple.
 
can they at least request an app purchase? Mine is not even allowing that it keeps asking for my credit card number.
 
MisterPunchy said:
Set it up with me as organizer, my wife as a parent, and our 3 kids as members. The info and pictures on Apples instructional/info site show that in iTunes and App stores, the kids should all be able to click "purchased" and find a list of other family members to click on, and download apps, music, books, etc... Within the family. But there's nothing. No list of family members. No way to share any content, music, apps, books, anything.
So, what the F is the purpose if this? It does precisely nothing. Nice waste of programming, apple.
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The developer has to enable family sharing. once a developer enables it, it shows up
 
Also having this problem. When I go to purchased in the App Store on my iPad it says "To start sharing purchases, finish setting up family sharing in iCloud."
And the word iCloud is a link into the family sharing part of the settings app. I have finished setting it up... Hours ago... So I guess now it's just a waiting game.
 
JBaker122586 said:
Also having this problem. When I go to purchased in the App Store on my iPad it says "To start sharing purchases, finish setting up family sharing in iCloud."
And the word iCloud is a link into the family sharing part of the settings app. I have finished setting it up... Hours ago... So I guess now it's just a waiting game.
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A developer has to support iOS 8 for its app and enable Family Sharing
 
JBaker122586 said:
Also having this problem. When I go to purchased in the App Store on my iPad it says "To start sharing purchases, finish setting up family sharing in iCloud."
And the word iCloud is a link into the family sharing part of the settings app. I have finished setting it up... Hours ago... So I guess now it's just a waiting game.
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Yes, a number of us in a different thread were discussing this... Took each of us a couple hours for the info to sync. From the purchased tab, on the top left you will see a link that says My Purchases... Click this link and it will show a pop up list of each persons purchased history. Additionally, you can just do a normal search, and all peoples purchased items no longer have price, just the cloud download icon.
 
gavroche said:
Yes, a number of us in a different thread were discussing this... Took each of us a couple hours for the info to sync. From the purchased tab, on the top left you will see a link that says My Purchases... Click this link and it will show a pop up list of each persons purchased history. Additionally, you can just do a normal search, and all peoples purchased items no longer have price, just the cloud download icon.
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Thanks. None of this is working as yet, but I'll check in the morning. Perhaps the servers are just swamped. Glad to hear that some of you are finding success after some time! Appreciate the feedback.
 
App Updates

Tried setting up Family Share this morning. From the looks of it, at least right away, you have to grant permission for each app to update on the child device? If thats the case, I will be turning off Family Share real quick...
 
Beginning to think Family Sharing is going to be largely useless. Some apps aren't eligible. Others are, but only after a certain date. Right now I use my ID on my kids iPods so they can play games I've bought on the devices I bought. The kids are 6 and 9. I hoped to enable family sharing as it seemed like a more efficient way of managing purchases, but if I do, they will lose most of their games since I bought the majority before Jun 2014 (the date most developers are settling on).

No point in turning it on. Shame!
 
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