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Family Sharing for large families

Dear Apple,

I might understand the limit of family sharing for app purchases and sharing.  However, Family Sharing's other features are more important to me (i.e. shared calendar, find my iphone, etc.).  I have a wife and five children.  This Christmas season, I have completed the Apple family buy purchasing iPad minis for all of the children.  This means:

Me: iPhone 6s Plus + iPad 2

Wife: iPhone 6s + iPad mini 4

Son #1: iPad mini 2

Daughter #1: iPad mini 2

Son #2: iPad mini 2

Daughter #2: iPad mini 2

Son #3: iPad mini

However, since Family Sharing is limited to 6 people, it excludes one of my children.  Thus, I lose the important features because I am not allowed to add another child to the family.  Although I understand that most families do not have five children, I believe this is important to consider because we are heavily invested in Apple products now and this arbitrary exclusion isolates me from being able to use this feature or to be able to adequately and appropriately define my children with their appropriate age.

What can be done to fix this problem?

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

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We have the same issue with 8 in our immediate family. There are two of our children that are excluded form our family sharing plan because of the 6 people limitation. I'm not particularly interested in the sharing of content and apps across all our accounts as much as just being able to share calendars, location info etc…

We own 22 Apple products: 8 iPhones, 4 iPads, 3 iPods, 1 iMac, 1 Mac mini, 3 MacBook Pros, 1 MacBook and 2 Apple TV's…needless to say we are heavily vested in the Apple ecosystem.

This is one of the rare occasions when Apple has let us down and left us feeling disappointed…

Please fix this.

Please fix this.

Ask Apple.

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I have 8 children ages 13 down.  The older 6 have Apple devices.  I have the youngest kids signing in with Mun Apple ID but I don't really like that idea.  I want to be able to approve apps they request.  Im concerned about the discrimination here against large families.

Im concerned about the discrimination here against large families.

Really?

While I can certainly empathize with your situation, to try and make this political is unfair IMO.

One can be unhappy with a business decision made by Apple, and come here to vent... but to suggest it's discrimination is a bit much.

I challenge you to look around the online services marketplace and see if any of Apple's competitors are offering anything more.

Feedback for Apple goes here >>> https://www.apple.com/feedback/

So i'll drop the discrimination line as I know that causes people to get worked up.

Apple is making it a point to define what a "family", and limit it to x # of people.  Because they've tied this to sharing applications and music which have a $$ cost therein lies the problem.  I totally understand why they would want to limit the # of people sharing apps and music on one account.  But they then limit my ability to approve applications for my children, share a family calendar, have family reminders, share family pictures etc.  Microsoft on the other hand breaks this apart.  I can have all my kids listed under my family and I can have controls in place on how much time they use on the Xbox, family PC, etc.  Requests come to me for additional time, application requests etc.

So yes, there are other service providers Microsoft, Amazon etc, that do not limit family size within their service.

And yes, I have given my feedback to Apple on their feedback page.

Perhaps what would be valuable from this group is ways that other large families have been able to work around these limitations and share their family calendar, photos etc on the apple ecosystem... and going to a 3rd party service like google kind of defeats the purpose.

So, here are some ideas.

Outside of what you can do with the 6 family members, have the others use the same Apple ID for iTunes but NOT iCloud. This shares the iTunes purchases but not the iCloud features. Line up those non-family-sharing users in a way where their taste in apps and music may be more similar.

You can't share Notes or Contacts with Family Sharing anyway.

Using the Photos app's iCloud Photo Sharing feature, you can create an album the family can contribute to. Same features as the Family Shared album without being designated as the family album.

Share Photos in an album this way : iCloud Photo Sharing - Apple Support

Share Calendars this way : iCloud: Share a calendar with others

Share Reminders this way : iCloud: Share a reminder list

Almost every feature the same, without the structure of family Sharing which you find limiting.

I think it would be easy if Apple just made a rule that if your family exceeds six members, only 2 of those members may be adults.

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