How to Pay for Your Own Apple Purchases When On Someone Else's Apple Family Plan
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How to Pay for Your Own Apple Purchases When On Someone Else’s Apple Family Plan

Do a search for anything resembling “Paying for my own purchases in Apple family sharing” or “How to use my own credit card for app store purchases as a family sharing member?” and you are likely to get discouraged; the vast majority of sites, including Apple’s own, say that basically you can’t do it. Or they tell you that you can, but you need an Apple gift card to do it. Neither of these are accurate. You can pay for your own purchases, using your own credit card or debit card, even when you are on someone else’s Apple Family Sharing plan, you just need to know how to do it, and it just takes a little bit of pre-planning.

How to Set Up Family Sharing of Subscriptions for Apple Apps
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How to Set Up Family Sharing of Subscriptions for iPhone Apps and Apple Services

Did you know that some Apple and iOS apps offer ‘family subscriptions’, meaning they let you use the Family Sharing feature on your device?