Family Sharing for App Store Subscriptions Now AvailableiPhone and
iPad users who share apps with their families through Apple's Family Sharing feature can now share subscription apps as well.
In the
App Store settings under "Subscriptions," there's a "Share New Subscriptions" setting that appears to be enabled automatically, allowing subscription apps to be shared among family members. The new option is available on the current release version of iOS, iOS 14.2.
Apple
announced subscription sharing options as part of
iOS 14,
iPadOS 14, and
macOS Big Sur. Developers are able to decide whether subscriptions should be available to members of a Family Sharing group. Some apps have been implementing the feature, as noted by Ryan Jones on Twitter.
<div class="center-wrap"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Family Sharing for Subscriptions just went live.
pic.twitter.com/QxPDiztNWw</p>— Ryan Jones (@rjonesy)
December 3, 2020 <script async src="
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
Prior to today, if one member of a family purchased an app that included a subscription benefit, there was no built-in way for those subscription features to be shared with other family members.<div class="linkback">Tag:
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