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

xrayboy

macrumors member
Original poster
Oct 9, 2008
74
15
Baton Rouge, LA
Before family sharing my family just shared the same iTunes account on all of our iPads. Therefore, my children had access to all of the movies that I had purchased under my iTunes account (with parental restrictions for certain content, of course). All of their Disney videos were purchased on my account, and using the Videos app they were able to see and stream all of these movies without having to actually download them to their device.

While Family Sharing is an excellent concept, and I definitely prefer getting my kids off of my account, I am concerned that doing this breaks the ability to stream video content from the Family Organizer's iTunes account. There is a setting in Settings...Videos to "Show All Videos", which allows the user to see videos stored in iCloud, but it appears that this is only for that particular user and not for the entire family share.

Is there any way to stream video content using Family Share? If not, I'll probably have to revert back to using the same iTunes account on all the devices.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.