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Family members in different country.

All my family member are in different country, my account is in US store, my wife is using China account, my sister is UK account, and my parents are Taiwan account. I was plan to setup a family sharing for all my family through my credit as a gift for them.

However, after I sent family share invitation to them, they told me that system forcing them to change their apple ID country, which will effect on their contain and apps.

My parents even don't know how to change country. Why a family sharing plan could effect on their previous apps and also forcing them to change store country ?

I just want to purchase apps and apple music for them through my APPLE ID, why the things could become so difficult ?

Apple can't and should not forcing my family member to use same country account.

It's family sharing, not company sharing or school sharing. Family members are blood relations not country relations or location relations.

Please tell me how to use my credit and APPLE ID to setup CORRECT family sharing without change anyone's APPLE ID country.

Thank you.

While I cannot find anything that explicitly states as much, I suspect that yes, all members of the "family" do indeed need to be in the same country and using the same country iTunes and App stores. However, you should contact support to get clarification: https://getsupport.apple.com/

I think I point out a conflict situation, since people and their family all using iOS device to link each other on this Earth, even the Apple's advertisement using this point to show how facetime work around this world.

But when doing purchasing and family sharing, you are saying that "all members of the "family" do indeed need to be in the same country and using the same country iTunes and App stores." . It's almost tricky and impossible to the real life and fact in this world.

This rule conflicts with the real life, even against humanity.

It's ridiculous.

1. The Family sharing feature is pretty much explicitly designed for parents and children living in the same household. There is nothing that prevents including multiple households, but that's isn't what Apple had in mind.
2. There are restrictions on content, including the payment mechanism, that limits multinational accounts. Its no surprise that Family Sharing would also be restricted to that.

3. Morriesfromboston wrote:

    

   This rule conflicts with the real life, even against humanity.

   It's ridiculous.

No, actually that statement is what's ridiculous. Seriously.

You can provide Apple feedback here.

Well, what your are saying is part of function of family sharing, in other words I would like to call it " parents controlling".

The situation which you mentioned is about how the parents monitoring their kids when using and purchasing APPS.

However, what I asking is more likely "How can I purchasing and using family sharing for my elder parents (almost 70 years old.) and younger siblings?" .

Note: my elder parents and younger siblings are all in different country.

Thank you for helping me clarified the issue.

As I stated, there is nothing I can find in the Apple literature that explicitly states you cannot do what you are attempting. Based on the nature of localized iTunes stores, I think it is likely you cannot. I could be wrong. Use the link I provided and get in touch with Apple support to confirm.

At the bottom under Learn More:

Sharing purchased content with Family Sharing - https://support.apple.com/HT201085 - "With Family Sharing, family members get immediate access to each others’ music, movies, TV shows, books, and apps, and can download them to their own devices any time they like.*" "* Not all content and content types are available in all countries. To share purchased content, all family members must use the same iTunes Store country or region. Music, movies, TV shows, and books can be downloaded on up to 10 devices per account, five of which can be computers. Apps can be downloaded to any devices the family member owns or controls."

Country limitations are to be expected as material is licensed differently under each country.  If you buy a gun in the USA, which you can do very easily and legally, can you share it with your family in China, or the UK?

All purchases are region-specific. The licence agreement that you get is only for the region that you purchased it in. That's why apps, music and videos very often are different in different regions and may not be available everywhere.

In addition to reasons Limnos  already cited, if you made those purchases available to users in other regions, you would be breaking the copyright and distribution regulations that you signed to.

Limnos wrote:

 

At the bottom under Learn More:

 

Sharing purchased content with Family Sharing - https://support.apple.com/HT201085 - "With Family Sharing, family members get immediate access to each others’ music, movies, TV shows, books, and apps, and can download them to their own devices any time they like.*" "* Not all content and content types are available in all countries. To share purchased content, all family members must use the same iTunes Store country or region. Music, movies, TV shows, and books can be downloaded on up to 10 devices per account, five of which can be computers. Apps can be downloaded to any devices the family member owns or controls."

 

Country limitations are to be expected as material is licensed differently under each country.  If you buy a gun in the USA, which you can do very easily and legally, can you share it with your family in China, or the UK?

Thanks.

SO, my wife is American, and I am Canadian. Not only can we not share, but we cannot import one of our accounts to another country. If she could transfer her account to Canada, and abid by their rules and regulations, this wouldn't be a problem.

Each country has its own copyright laws and the issue stems from that. After all, Apple's interest as a multinational for-profit corporation is to make you happy so you spend as much money as possible on their products.  However, I could see trying to manage each individual's purchases on a multinational basis being nearly impossible and just make a simple rule along the lines of borders. 

Your wife can transfer her Apple ID to the Canadian store but she will not have access to materials purchased in other countries except for what she brings with her on her computer. It sounds to me like you need to invest in a couple of hard drives to make sure you do not need to re-download USA purchases and not worry about trying to use Apple to deal with that media.  No, you won't be able to upgrade apps purchased in the USA but there's some things you just have to adjust to when you move countries.  Let her embrace your health care system.

Change your iTunes Store country or region - https://support.apple.com/HT201389

"Family" has meaning outside of the stores.  In particular, there is a "Family" album in Photos that is shared automatically with the family, and there are no copyright/IP issues on my photos...

I believe the right thing to do is to separate the two notions of "Family" and "copyright" laws.  In particular, I'd like to have my mother (in Spain) in my "Family", and, if I have to, I'll pay for her content.

Separate, I hope that Apple can negotiate a wide ranging subscription offering with the copyright owners.

We are living in Sweden but I use a Danish Apple ID how can we share a family "plan"?

I think a proper approach to this matter should be Apple to segregate the content: 3rd parties’ content should not be shared (AppStore / iTunes content), while all the rest should (iCloud, storage, pics, bookmarks etc.)

For me it’s more important to approve my kids purchases and share same storage than to share same apps, when multiple country accounts.

Kilgore-Trout wrote:

Morriesfromboston wrote: This rule conflicts with the real life, even against humanity.

No, actually that statement is what's ridiculous. Seriously.

Nah he's right. Real life scatters family internationally. Your reasoning is basically "because legal said so", and that's more ridiculous than anything.

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