Prerequisites: You’ll need to designate one adult with a verified credit card and an Apple ID to manage the family account. You can only belong to one family group at a time. From a Mac Desktop: You’ll then be able to follow the instructions and send out invitations to other family members. Each person needs their own Apple ID. Once you’ve created a family group, you have the option of using it to share most of your content in other Apple apps. You can share most purchased or family-created content from Apple this way, so books from iBooks, movies, music, and TV shows from iTunes, and so on. Apple even lets you share your location through family groups. Sharing works slightly differently with iPhoto, where you can share individual albums with larger groups of friends and family, but you can’t share full access to your entire library.
Leaving the Family
The adult who owns the account keeps the content when family members leave, either by divorce and separation or by growing up and creating family accounts of their own. If you haven’t set up Netflix profiles, this is how you do it: You can specify the age level for media on each profile. Levels include all maturity levels, teens and below, older kids and below, and little kids only. If you check the box next to Kid? only movies and TV rated for viewers 12 and younger will be shown (older kids and below). Once you have profiles set up, you will see a choice of profiles every time you log into Netflix.
Leaving the Family
Netflix content is rented, not owned, so there’s no question of digital property transfer. The account owner can just change their Netflix password and delete a profile. The history and recommended videos will disappear with the account. Each child will get an avatar so you can easily tell what content is in their Family Library. Once you have a library set up, you can use the Your Content tab to put items in the Family Library of each child. (Adults see all shared content by default.) You can add items individually, but this is less efficient. Use the checkbox on the left side to select multiple items and add them to a child’s library in bulk. The Your Devices tab allows you to manage the Kindle portion of any phones, tablets, Fire sticks, or other devices running the Kindle app.
Leaving the Family
The two adult owners can leave at any time. They each take possession of the content they purchased through their own profile. Because family groups in Google are at least teenagers, you can choose to either add all purchases to the library by default or add them individually. You can control access to content on individual Android devices by creating child profiles and adding parental controls to the content rather than by centrally managing it through the Google Play Family Library.
Leaving the Family Library
The individual who set up the Family Library retains all the content and manages membership. He or she can remove members at any time. Removed members then lose access to any shared content. To set up Steam Family Accounts: You’ll be walked through the process of setting up a PIN number and profiles. Once you have your family set up, you’ll need to authorize each Steam client individually. You can turn Family View on or off using your PIN number.
Leaving a Family Account
For the most part, Steam Family Libraries should be set up by one adult and players should be children. The content is owned by the account manager and vanishes when members leave.
