Manage sharing and parental settings in Family Sharing on Mac
If you’re the family organiser, you can manage the services that the members of your Family Sharing group can use. You can also manage parental controls features such as Ask to Buy and Screen Time.
Manage Purchase Sharing settings
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
If you don’t see Family, set up Family Sharing.
Click Purchase Sharing, then do any of the following:
Turn on Purchase Sharing for your family: Click Continue, then click Turn On Purchase Sharing.
Start or stop sharing your purchases with your family: Click your name, then turn Share My Purchases on or off.
Turn off Purchase Sharing for your family: Click Stop Purchase Sharing.
For more information about Purchase Sharing, see Share purchases with others in your Family Sharing group.
Manage subscription sharing settings
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
If you don’t see Family, set up Family Sharing.
Click Subscriptions, then do any of the following:
View shared subscriptions: Below Shared, view a list of subscriptions shared with your family and who’s sharing them.
Many Apple subscriptions are automatically shared with your family; iCloud+, Apple Music student and Apple Music individual subscriptions are not.
If you subscribe to iCloud+ and are sharing it with your family, click iCloud+ to view available storage and how much storage each family member is using. Click Manage Subscription for more information about your plan, or click Stop Sharing with Family to stop sharing iCloud+ with your family members.
Family members can also choose to keep their own individual storage plans. If you stop sharing iCloud storage, family members are given a grace period to continue using the shared storage, after which they need to purchase a storage plan of their own.
Manage subscriptions: Click Manage to view and manage your subscriptions.
View subscriptions you can share: Below Available to Share, view a list of services you subscribe to that are available to share with your family, but that you haven’t shared yet. To share, click the name of the subscription, then follow the on-screen instructions.
Learn about other Apple subscriptions: Below Discover More, click Apple Subscriptions or click the name of a service, such as iCloud+.
Explore more family subscriptions in the App Store: Click Discover next to Subscriptions for Family.
For information about combining your Apple subscriptions, see the Apple Support article Bundle Apple subscriptions with Apple One.
Manage location sharing settings
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
If you don’t see Family, set up Family Sharing.
Click Location Sharing, then do any of the following:
Choose whether or not to share your location with each family member: Turn location sharing on or off for each family member.
Automatically share your location with any new family members who join later: Turn on Automatically Share Location.
Open the Find My app: Click Open Find My.
Manage parental controls features
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
If you don’t see Family, set up Family Sharing.
Click the child’s name.
In the options that appear, do any of the following:
Manage screen time for a child: Click Screen Time in the sidebar. Click Open [child]’s Screen Time to get weekly reports about children’s screen time and set limits for what you want to manage. For more information about Screen Time, see What is Screen Time?
Turn Ask To Buy on or off for a child: Click Ask to Buy in the sidebar, then click Turn On Ask to Buy. To turn it off, turn off Require Purchase Approval. See Turn on Ask to Buy for Family Sharing purchases.