Apple One Removing Family from Apple One

[Danorak81]

Hello,

Me and my brother share our Apple One sub., with each of our wives and my youngest daughter also having an account. It was ok whilst we had minimal devices between us in our house, but now we have multiple devices, I want to issue my children their own Apple ID's so they can access the services so I don't have to have them signed into my account, with all of my content syncing to their devices.

The only way to achieve this is to remove my brother/sister-in-law from the service. However, I'm aware that they will lose access to everything, and this will delete all of their playlists etc in the cloud. Is there a way that I can remove them, but in a way that when he gets his own sub., he can re-access all of the playlists and music he had when he was on mine? If he uses the same email address, would there be a period of time where it would be retained in any way?

TIA!
Dan

 

[BigMcGuire]

Assuming they're keeping their same account (iCloud Account) - everything is related to their iCloud account. The storage they use is based on your Apple One sub. So when they leave your Apple One sub - everything that they've purchased and done in relation to their iCloud account stays with their iCloud account.

The only thing he will be unable to access is the stuff you own going forward (movies, books, subscriptions in apps, etc). But music/playlists are tied to their iCloud account (not your storage or your account). (Assuming your brother/sister in law were using their own account).

I have 5 people in my family sharing Apple One. I use one main account for all my Apple TV/movie purchases. My mother-in-law, wife, and siblings all have their own separate Apple IDs.

At any point, they could leave the group. They'd keep all their own stuff tied to their Apple ID (music playlists, their own purchases, photos, etc.). They'd just lose access to my movies/TV content and the shared iCloud storage going forward. They'd need to quickly subscribe to an iCloud plan with music to re-enable their playlists (last time I checked, Apple gives this option the moment you leave the family).

 

[Danorak81]

Thank you for the response @BigMcGuire.

I'm not fussed about content moving forward, but we both have quite large Music libraries, and I know he has a lot of playlists that have been built up over many years with Apple One. I'd hate to remove him and he loses all of those playlists!