Use Family Sharing with iCloud
With Family Sharing, family members can share purchases, subscriptions, locations, an iCloud storage plan and more.
To use Family Sharing, one adult family member (the organiser) chooses features for your family to share and invites up to five additional family members to participate. Each family member needs their own Apple ID. When family members join, Family Sharing is set up on their devices automatically.
Family Sharing is available on supported devices. See the Apple Support article System requirements for iCloud.
Set up Family Sharing
Do any of the following:
On an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch: go to Settings > [your name], then tap Family Sharing or Set Up Family Sharing. Follow the onscreen instructions.
For more information, see Set up Family Sharing in the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch user guides.
On a Mac: choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, then do one of the following:macOS 10.15 or later: click Family Sharing, then follow the onscreen instructions.
macOS 10.14 or earlier: click iCloud, click Set Up Family, then follow the onscreen instructions.
For more information, see Set up Family Sharing on Mac in the macOS User Guide.
Share an iCloud storage plan
If you upgrade your iCloud storage to 200 GB or more, you can share your storage with other family members. Family members can choose to share the plan with you or keep their own individual storage plans.
On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch: go to Settings > [your name], tap Family Sharing, tap iCloud Storage, then follow the onscreen instructions.
On your Mac: choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, then do one of the following:macOS 10.15 or later: click Family Sharing, then click iCloud Storage on the left. Click Share and follow the onscreen instructions.
macOS 10.14 or earlier: click iCloud, then click Manage Family. In the My Apps & Services pane, select iCloud Storage on the left, click Start Sharing, then follow the onscreen instructions.
To learn more about iCloud storage and what you can do with it, see What is iCloud storage?
For information about combining iCloud storage and Apple subscriptions, see the Apple Support article Bundle Apple subscriptions with Apple One.
Share locations with family members
When you turn on location sharing, you can see where family members are on a map in the Find My app and share your location using Messages.
On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch: go to Settings > [your name], tap Family Sharing, then tap Location Sharing. Select a family member, then tap Share My Location if it is not already on.
On your Mac: choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, then do one of the following:macOS 10.15 or later: click Family Sharing, then click Location Sharing. Select the tickbox next to each family member you want to share your location with.
macOS 10.14 or earlier: click iCloud, then click Manage Family. In the My Apps & Services pane, select Location Sharing on the left, then select the tickbox next to each family member you want to share your location with.
When you turn on location sharing, family members can also help locate your lost devices. Simply make sure Find My [device] is turned on for each of your devices. See Add your devices to Find My.
Share photo albums, calendars, reminder lists, documents and files
When you set up Family Sharing, you can use iCloud features to help keep your family connected. Family members need to turn on the iCloud features they want to share on each of their devices.
You can share any of the following:
Photos and videos: turn on the Shared Albums feature. Then create a shared album on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or Windows computer.
Calendars: turn on the Calendar feature. Then create a shared calendar on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac, or on iCloud.com.
Reminder list: turn on the Reminders feature. Then create a shared reminder list on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac, or on iCloud.com.
Documents and files: turn on the iCloud Drive feature. Then create a shared document or folder on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or Windows computer, or on iCloud.com.