Use Family Sharing to share iTunes Store purchases on Mac
With Family Sharing, up to six family members can download each other’s iTunes Store purchases to their own computers and devices. Family members can also hide their purchases so others can’t download them.
To use Family Sharing, one adult family member (the organizer) sets up the family and agrees to pay for all purchases. To control spending by children, the organizer can require approval for any purchases or free downloads requested by non-adult family members.
Set up Family Sharing
View and download other family members’ iTunes Store purchases
In the iTunes app
on your Mac, choose Account > Family Purchases.Click your name near the top-left corner (next to Purchased), then choose a family member to view their purchases.
To download an item, click its iCloud Download button
.To view only your downloaded items, select Downloaded in the sidebar on the left.
Hide your iTunes Store purchases
Family members can hide their individual iTunes Store purchases from other family members.
In the iTunes app
on your Mac, choose Account > Family Purchases.Click a content type on the right.
A list of purchases for the selected content type appears.
Move the pointer over the item you want to hide, click the Delete button
, then click Hide.
To see purchases you’ve hidden, choose Account > View My Account, sign in, then click Manage to the right of Hidden Purchases (below iTunes in the Cloud). To make a hidden item visible again, click the item’s Unhide button.
Require approval for purchases and downloads
After you set up Family Sharing, you can require parental approval for all purchases and downloads by any family member who isn’t an adult.
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, then click iCloud.Click Manage Family.
Select a family member, then select Ask to Buy.
Click Done.
When the family member tries to make a purchase or requests a download, a notification is sent to the organizer, who can approve or decline the request.
Family Sharing is designed to be used by a single family (adults and children). You can be part of only one family group at a time, but can switch to a different family group up to twice a year. Features may vary based on country or region.
Important: To share purchases, all members of the family group must be in the same country or region (as determined by the billing address associated with their Apple ID). If a family member moves to another country or region and updates their Apple ID information, that person might lose access to the purchases of other family members, and installed apps that were shared from other family members might not work. See the Apple Support article Change your Apple ID country or region.
See the Apple Support article Family Sharing or visit the Family Sharing website.