Manage Family Sharing settings
Family Sharing can be used by up to five family members to share subscriptions, purchases, photos, photo albums, a calendar, and more, all without sharing each other’s Apple Accounts. If you’re sharing an iCloud storage plan, each person’s files and documents remain private, while the amount of storage space being used by each person is visible to all members.
To see if you’re part of a Family Sharing group, go to Settings 
> [your name] > Family. If you see Set Up Family Sharing, you aren’t using Family Sharing with this Apple Account. If you see an icon with Family Sharing, you can tap the icon to see your family members and roles.
Who can leave a Family Sharing group?
The ability to change or leave a Family Sharing group varies.
An organizer can leave a Family Sharing group by turning off Family Sharing. When Family Sharing is turned off, all family members are removed from the family group at once. If there are children under 13 in the family group, the organizer must transfer them to another Family Sharing group. Family members will no longer be able to share access to subscriptions, purchases, and other services enabled through Family Sharing.
Any family member over the age of 13 can remove themselves from a family group at any time. Just select your name and then select Leave Family. You can also sign in to the Apple Account website and choose Remove Account in the Family Sharing section.
For security reasons, a child (under 13) account can’t remove themselves from a family and can’t stop sharing details such as Screen Time without the Screen Time passcode. The organizer has access to shared family content on your device, such as shared photo albums and shared calendars, and can view Screen Time activity.
Types of Family Sharing members
Members of a Family Sharing group can have different roles depending on their age.
Note: The age at which someone is considered an adult or child varies by country or region.
To change your Family Sharing status, it’s good to know how the different roles within Family Sharing groups work.
Organizer: An adult who sets up a Family Sharing group. The organizer can invite family members, remove family members, and disband the group.
Adult: A member of the Family Sharing group who’s 18 years or older.
Parent/Guardian: An adult member of the Family Sharing group who can help manage parental controls for children in the group. When the organizer adds an adult to the Family Sharing group, they can designate them as a parent or guardian.
Child or teen: A member of the Family Sharing group under the age of 18. The organizer, parent, or guardian can create an Apple Account for a child who’s too young to create their own.
In your household one adult, the family organizer, chooses the features the family shares and invites up to five additional members to join. After the invitations are accepted, Family Sharing is set up on everyone’s devices automatically—including a shared calendar and shared photo album. The family organizer can add anyone who has an Apple Account to their family and remove anyone over the age of 13 from the family group.
What happens when you leave a Family Sharing group
If a member is removed or leaves the Family Sharing group, they keep purchases paid for using the shared credit card but they immediately lose access to other things the family members share:
Former family members’ device locations don’t appear in the Find My app on iCloud.com or on the Mac, iPhone, or iPad.
Former family members’ items no longer appear in the Purchased section of the iTunes Store, the App Store, and Apple Books.
Music, movies, TV shows, books, and apps previously downloaded are no longer usable if someone else originally purchased them. Former family members can no longer use this content downloaded from your collection.
In-app purchases become unavailable if they were purchased using an app someone else originally purchased. You can regain access to the in-app purchases by purchasing the app.
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Leave a Family Sharing group on your iPhone or iPad with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, or later
If you’re over the age of 13 and are a member of a Family Sharing group:
Go to Settings
> Family (below your name).Tap your name, then tap Stop Using Family Sharing.
Leave a Family Sharing group on your iPhone or iPad with iOS 17, iPadOS 17, or earlier
If you’re over the age of 13 and are a member of a Family Sharing group:
Go to Settings
> [your name] > Family Sharing.Tap your name, then tap Stop Using Family Sharing.
Leave a Family Sharing group on your Mac
If you’re over the age of 13 and are a member of a family sharing group:
Do one of the following:
On your Mac with macOS 13 or later: Choose Apple menu
> System Settings, then click Family in the sidebar (below your name).On your Mac with macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, click Family Sharing 
, then click Family Sharing.
In the list of family members, click your name or Details next to your name, click Stop Using Family Sharing, then follow the onscreen instructions.
Click Done.
Stop Family Sharing on your iPhone or iPad with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, or later
You must be the family organizer to turn off Family Sharing.
Go to Settings
> Family (below your name).Tap your name, then tap Stop Using Family Sharing.
Stop Family Sharing on your iPhone or iPad with iOS 17, iPadOS 17, or earlier
You must be the family organizer to turn off Family Sharing.
Go to Settings
> [your name] > Family Sharing.Tap your name, then tap Stop Using Family Sharing.
Stop Family Sharing on your Mac
To stop Family Sharing, you must:
Be the family organizer.
Transfer child accounts to another family.
Do one of the following:
On your Mac with macOS 13 or later: Choose Apple menu
> System Settings, then click Family in the sidebar (below your name).On your Mac with macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, click Family Sharing , then click Family Sharing.
Click
next to your name, then click Stop Family Sharing.
Remove members from a family group on your iPhone or iPad with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, or later
If you’re the family organizer:
Go to Settings
> Family (below your name).Tap [member’s name], tap Remove [member’s name] from Family, then tap Remove [member’s name] again.
Note: If you’re the family organizer, you can’t remove yourself from the Family Sharing group.
Remove members from a family group on your iPhone or iPad with iOS 17, iPadOS 17, or earlier
If you’re the family organizer:
Go to Settings
> [your name] > Family Sharing.Tap [member’s name], then tap Remove [member’s name] from Family.
Note: If you’re the family organizer, you can’t remove yourself from the Family Sharing group.
Remove members from a family group on your Mac
If you’re the family organizer, you can remove members from a family group but you can’t remove yourself.
Do one of the following:
On your Mac with macOS 13 or later: Choose Apple menu
> System Settings, then click Family in the sidebar (below your name).On your Mac with macOS 12 or earlier: Choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, click Family Sharing , then click Family Sharing.
Do one of the following:
On your Mac with macOS 13 or later: Select the member in the list, click Remove [member’s name] from Family, then click Remove [member’s name] again.
On your Mac with macOS 12 or earlier: Select the member in the list, click
, then click to confirm you want to remove them.