Share Apple Music with Family Sharing on Mac
When you subscribe to Apple Music or Apple One with a family subscription, you can use Family Sharing to share Apple Music with up to five other family members. Your family group members don’t need to do anything — Apple Music is available to them the first time they open the Music app after your family subscription begins.
Note: To use Family Sharing, you need an Apple Account and you must be part of a family group, either as the organiser or an invited family member. To share Apple Music through Family Sharing, someone in the group must have a family subscription — as opposed to an individual subscription — to Apple Music or Apple One.
Additionally, family members can download each other’s iTunes Store purchases to their own computers and devices. They can also hide their purchases so others can’t download them.
Note: Apple Music and Apple One aren’t available in all countries or regions. See the Apple Support article Availability of Apple Media Services.
Upgrade to a family subscription
If you join a family group that subscribes to Apple Music or Apple One with a family subscription and you already subscribe, your subscription isn’t renewed on your next billing date; instead, you use the group’s subscription. If you join a family group that doesn’t subscribe and you have a family subscription, the group uses your subscription. If neither you nor the family group has a family subscription, you can upgrade your account.
Go to the Music app
on your Mac.Choose Account > Upgrade to Family, then follow the onscreen instructions.
Add more family group members
Go to the Music app
on your Mac.Choose Account > Add Family Members, then follow the onscreen instructions. See Add family members to a Family Sharing group.
Manage family sharing purchases
Go to the Music app
on your Mac.Choose Account > Manage Family, then follow the onscreen instructions. See Manage sharing and parental settings in Family Sharing.
View and download other family members’ purchases
Go to the Music app
on your Mac.Choose Account > Family Purchases.
Note: If you see Purchased or Upgrade to Family, Family Sharing isn’t set up for you. See Upgrade to a family subscription.
Click a name near the top-left corner (next to Purchased), then choose a family member to view their purchases.
To download an item, click
.To view only your downloaded items, click Songs in the sidebar, then choose View > Only Downloaded Music.
Important: To share purchases, all members of the family group must be in the same country or region (as determined by the billing address associated with their Apple Account). If a family member moves to another country or region and updates their Apple Account information, that person might lose access to the purchases of other family members, and installed apps that were shared by other family members might not work. See the Apple Support article Change your Apple Account country or region.
Hide your iTunes Store purchases
Family members can hide their individual iTunes Store purchases from other family members.
Go to the Music app
on your Mac.Choose Account > Family Purchases.
If you don’t see Family Purchases, Family Sharing isn’t set up for you.
Click a name near the top-left corner (next to Purchased), then choose your name to view your purchases.
Click a content type on the right.
A list of purchases for the selected content type appears.
Move the pointer over the item you want to hide, click
, then click Hide.
To display purchases you’ve hidden, choose Account > Account Settings, sign in (if asked), then click Manage to the right of Hidden Purchases (above Purchase History). To make a hidden item visible again, click the item’s Unhide button.
Note: To stop sharing Apple Music with a family group, you can cancel your subscription, leave the family group or (if you’re the family group organiser) stop using Family Sharing.
See the Apple Support article What is Family Sharing? or visit the Family Sharing website.
To learn more about how Apple Music protects your information and lets you choose what you share, choose Help > About Apple Music & Privacy.