Turn on Family Sharing for in-app purchases
Apps that offer auto-renewable subscriptions and nonconsumable in-app purchases can enable Family Sharing, which will allow users to share their purchase with up to five additional family members. You can choose which of your in-app purchases to allow Family Sharing for in App Store Connect.
Whether or not a user’s purchases are automatically shared with their family members depends on the type of in-app purchase, the user’s sharing preferences, and if the purchase was made before or after Family Sharing was turned on in App Store Connect. Users have the option of turning off Family Sharing in their subscription settings at any time.
Note: It may take up to 1 hour for changes you make to product metadata to appear in the sandbox environment.
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Auto-renewable subscriptions |
Non-consumable in-app purchases |
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New Users |
Family Sharing is enabled by default depending on the preference set by the purchaser in Manage Subscriptions. |
Family Sharing is enabled by default if the following conditions are met: - user has purchase sharing enabled. - the user's family members are sharing payment. - the app is not hidden from the user's purchase history. |
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Existing Users |
Users must opt-in to Family Sharing from within their manage subscriptions page. |
You can unlock access to the in-app purchase using receipt validation or App Store server notifications if the following conditions are met: - user has purchase sharing enabled. - the user's family members are sharing payment. - the app is not hidden from the user's purchase history. |
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Required role: Account Holder or App Manager. View role permissions.
Turn on Family Sharing
Please note that once you turn on Family Sharing for an in-app purchases in App Store Connect, you can't turn it off.
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From Apps, select your app.
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In the sidebar under Monetization, click In-App Purchases, or Subscriptions then the subscription group.
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Select your in-app purchase, or subscription, from the list.
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Scroll down to the Family Sharing section.
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Click Turn On.