How To Set Up Apple Music Family Subscription

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Sharing your Apple Music Family subscription — or your Apple 1 Family unit or Premier bundle — with others in your household is a great way to save coin while enjoying Apple'due south vast catalog of streaming music content. Hither's how to go it done.

An individual Apple tree Music subscription costs $9.99 per month. Spend $fourteen.99 instead, though, and you get a family plan for yourself and up to five other people.

Compared to all half dozen people buying their own Apple Music subscription, that'due south an firsthand saving of $44.95 right there. Even if you accept simply ane other person in your household, moving to a family plan will save $5.

Choosing between Apple Music and Apple tree Ane

Just every bit the Apple tree Music family plan saves you money, so the Apple One bundle does — under the right circumstances. Information technology's an consequence of what else you lot employ from Apple tree, and besides which version of the bundle you purchase.

For $xiv.95 per calendar month, you can get the Apple I Individual Plan and it does include Apple Music — but only for you. To become the benefit of a family Apple Music subscription, you have to buy the Family unit Plan at $19.95 per month, or the Premier i at $29.95.

In either case, yous need to purchase based on what you are actually using, or will actually employ. So with the Family unit Plan, you need to know that you will exist getting:

Apple Music Family
Apple TV+
Apple tree Arcade
200GB iCloud storage

If you only care nigh sharing Apple Music with your family, the Apple tree Ane Family package is non worth information technology. However, if you use or need the other services, information technology is more than economic to buy them through this Apple One Family package.

It'south exactly the same with the more expensive Apple One Premier bundle, in how yous need to decide what you are using, what you program to use — and whether y'all want to share whatsoever of it.

However, Apple One Premier bundle provides more, and some of it is exclusive to this tier. Birthday, the Premier bundle has:

Apple Music Family unit
Apple TV+
Apple Arcade
2TB iCloud storage
Apple News+
Apple Fitness+

Information technology's Apple tree News+ and Apple Fitness+ that are exclusive to the Premier bundle. Those and the 2TB iCloud storage infinite — which can be shared amid your family - that tin make the Premier bundle the all-time fashion to get Apple Music for everyone in your household.

In that location is all the same the issue, and so, of calculation a family member to your Apple Music subscription. The fashion you do that depends on whether yous're a new user yourself, or yous accept a personal subscription.

Adding family members to Apple Music

There are a few things you lot'll need to practise before yous can add a family fellow member to your Apple Music subscription. Make certain the device you're using is charged and on a stable Wi-Fi or cellular connection, for instance.

Also be yous have a valid grade of payment on hand, and you block out at least xx minutes to set it upwardly.

Offset, we'll walk you through how to subscribe to an Apple Music family unit plan. If you've never subscribed before — congratulations, you'll become a gratis trial for the starting time three months!

If you've got a Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod bear on, open Apple tree Music.
Click on the Listen At present or For You tab.
Tap or click the Family unit trial offer.
Tap or click Start Trial.
Sign in with your Apple tree ID
Ostend your billing information
Add a valid payment method if yous don't already have i
Tap or click Join.

Of course, you can't take advantage of the costless family programme trial if you're already subscribed to Apple Music equally an individual. Instead, you lot'll need to switch from an individual plan to a family plan, which tin can be done by following the steps below. Yous can switch to a family unit Programme from both iOS/iPadOS devices, as well every bit a Mac.

How to switch to an Apple Music family plan on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Open up the Settings app.
Tap your proper name, then tap Subscriptions.
Tap Apple Music Membership Individual.
Tap Family (1 Month).

How to switch to an Apple Music family program on the Mac

Changing Apple Music subscription plans on macOS

Open the App Store.
Click your name in the bottom left corner
Click View Information in the top right corner
Whorl to Subscriptions and click Manage.
Click Apple Music Subscription.
Click Family (1 month)

Now that you've got everything squared abroad with an active family subscription to Apple Music, y'all tin share it with family members past setting upwardly Family Sharing. Family Sharing volition allow you to add a family fellow member to your Apple Music family plan. You can do this procedure on a Mac or any device running iOS or iPadOS.

Each family unit group can simply be chastened by one adult, who should be the same person whose Apple ID has an active family unit plan subscription to Apple Music. That person should follow the steps below to ensure proper setup.

Setting up Family Sharing on an iPhone

Setting upward Family unit Sharing on an iPhone

Tap Settings and and then tap on your proper noun.
Tap Gear up Family Sharing, which volition walk you through the process of setting up Family Sharing.

Click the Apple menu
If using Catalina, click System Preferences followed past Family Sharing.
If using macOS Mojave or earlier, click Arrangement Preferences, followed by iCloud
Follow the on-screen instructions to fix upwards Family Sharing.

If you already have Family Sharing set upward and y'all accept the family plan to Apple Music, you may need to invite people to bring together your family unit. These individuals volition need to have a valid Apple tree ID and know their password to accept the invitation.

Head to Settings.
Tap your proper name, and then tap Family Sharing.
Tap Add Family Member.
Enter your family member's Apple tree ID email.
Choose whether you lot'd like to invite them via Messages, or if you lot'd like them to enter their ID and password from your device
Follow the on-screen instructions

Click on the Apple tree menu and and then head to Organisation Preferences.
Click Family Sharing
Click the + plus sign at the bottom of the Family listing
Follow the on-screen instructions