How to stop sharing Apple ID

[shamus99]

Hello…. Me, wife and child share a third party email for our app store purchases. We all have different icloud accounts. Is it still best to do it this way or set up family sharing?

We have a ton of purchases tied to the third party and I also dont want to lose any data tied to my icloud…. any suggestions?

I tried changing third party to my icloud email but it wouldnt let me do it.

Apple support was no help.

Thanks!

 

[glenthompson]

This is the way my wife and I do it. Started before Family Sharing was a thing and kept doing it as some apps don’t support sharing. Only problem has been a merged Books collection. I have to wade through her books and vice versa.

 

[shamus99]

Thanks, but I think we are ready to switch. Getting too confusing with music, books etc.

Anyone else switch over? If so, any suggestions?

 

[rambo47]

I set up each family member with an iPhone with their own Apple IDs. Different credit cards for each ID too.

 

[ShrimpScampi]

I was in your shoes once. What we ended up doing was add the shared AppleID as a third member of our family, with us using our primary AppleID for everything else.

 

[shamus99]

Thanks all… we made the switch. Pain signing in and out of every device and service and getting it synced again. Only issue was I didnt realiize we wouldnt be able to share our itunes match library.