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for all of you out there who are lucky enough to live in a home with multiple people using multiple Apple devices your iPhones and iPads and Mac books and iPod Touches Apple has made it really easy to sync these all up to a common iTunes account called family sharing I'm going to show you how to set it up first for this to work you have to make sure all of your Apple devices that you want to share with are running the latest software that means iOS 8 for mobile and OS 10 mountain lion for your Macs next take the mobile device that's associated with the Apple ID and credit card that will serve as the master account for the family then go to settings iCloud and tap the button for setup family sharing you're going to go through a few screens here that explain family sharing verify your credit card information and make sure that you understand that the family organizer all purchases made on these other devices are going to go through your account that's an important detail so don't go adding friends or deadbeat uncles to your family sharing list eventually you'll find yourself on this family page where you can add up to five additional family members to share with to invite someone click add family member and then type in their name or email address to pull them up from your contacts once they accept the invitation they'll gain immediate access to any music movies TV shows books or apps that you downloaded and the same goes for you if you click on the App Store or the iTunes Store and you click on purchase you can see a new list of all the things that they've bought before that you can download onto any of your devices but what happens if a family member of yours turns out to be a real jerk who's running up your credit card with all kinds of iTunes and app purchases that you don't approve of well you can delete them from your list by going into iCloud tapping their name and removing them so there you go that's how to set up Apple's family sharing feature with your family it's a great way to make the best use of iTunes content you already have you