Sharing Apple Music - how to sign up for a family subscription

With the help of Apple Music, you can stream millions of different songs on Apple Music without ads. To let your friends or family members use the service as well, add them via a family subscription.

Select Family Subscription

To share your Apple Music subscription with your friends or family members, you need to select Family Subscription as the subscription model. You can also cancel this at a later time. In the conclusion, set up family sharing to share your Apple Music subscription.

Set up family sharing

This is how you proceed when setting up family sharing:

1. Go to the Apple Music app and open "For you".
2. Now here you make a subscription and select "Family" as the subscription type. If you already have a subscription, open "Subscriptions" in the settings instead and change the subscription model there.
3. Now set up family sharing. If it is already set up, all members have immediate access to Apple Music.
4. Use an iOS device, open the settings and tap "iCloud". Now select "Set up family sharing" and follow the instructions.
5. On your Android, open the Apple Music app, tap "Account" in "More" and then "Manage family".
6. After that, the selected person will receive a notification on your mobile device, through which he is invited to the family subscription.
7. This invitation must be clicked and accepted.

With the confirmation, the respective person can use Apple Music to the same extent as you. A total of up to six people can be added to this subscription.