Apple Music - No more sharing Apple ID

[KUguardgrl13]

Hopefully someone on here can help me figure this out. If not, it's not a big deal.

Basically I have two Apple IDs much like other people. One is my iCloud account and the other is my old iTunes account that I still purchase music through and I'm pretty sure has all of my apps as well. My boyfriend also had his own Apple ID for iCloud and his own apps. He has used my iTunes account for music and movies though.

Anyway, I've signed up for Apple Music, and I'm wondering if my boyfriend will still be able to use my iTunes account for music. He has T-Mobile while I have Verizon, so it'd be nice to be able to take advantage of his unlimited data plan occasionally. I don't think simultaneous streaming will be an issue too much based on our schedules, so if we can do it with an individual account, that would be awesome.

I'm not too keen on family sharing for us yet since we have our separate accounts set up with our own debit cards. I would trust him to not abuse my card, but up until now there hasn't been any reason for us to use family sharing. And if we were to break up for some reason, that could get messy. It also sounds like family sharing would be complicated since my iTunes account is separate from my iCloud account.

 

[sta1210]

I have a similar set up to many of the posts in this thread - myself and my better half each have individual accounts and then some time past set a joint account for purchases, we are now all linked as a family account with my account as the organizing account and a purchasing account for iTunes, app store, ibooks, etc. Now if I read this correctly, on my mac as well as my iPhone I should sign into iTunes with my personal account and not the purchasing account that I used previously? Is that correct?

I agree that this is overly confusing... There should be some degree of control over this process at the organizer set up level, I thought of changing the organizer to a purchasing account but I believe the only way to do that is to dissolve the family share - losing calendars etc...

Any advice would be much appreciated...