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How to Fix Apple Music Family Sharing Not Working

Apple music shows the great power of sharing music with others by providing a service called Family Sharing. The Family Sharing features on iOS devices are very convenient. You can connect to multiple family members to share music, TV, and news that you enjoy on your own devices. It allows users to get closer to their families. However, sometimes Apple Music Family Sharing doesn’t work well for unknown reasons. To be honest, there are lots of reasons that lead to this problem, such as mismatching Apple IDs, unshareable files, and so on. In this article, we attend to give you some suggestions about how to fix Apple Music Family Sharing not working.

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Method 1: Use the Same Apple IDs

Do you have multiple Apple IDs at one time or are you logging into the correct Apple ID that you join the Apple Music Family Sharing? As we all know, we can share Apple Music with family by using the appropriate Apple ID. If your Apple ID doesn’t match your Apple Music account, Apple Music will not work on Family Sharing. Now, we are going to tell you how to check if your Apple ID is matched your Apple Music account.

  • Step 1: Go to Settings on your iPhone or iPad.
  • Step 2: Find your account by clicking the name.
  • Step 3: Swift to your account interface, check the information to ensure it is the same Apple ID as the one you use on Apple Music.
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    Method 2: Sign out and Sign in with Your Apple ID

    Sometimes there may be some problems with your or your family’s Apple Music on iPhones, iPad, or Macs. When you connect your Family Sharing with your family, sometimes there will be some bugs or delays in this process. Try to sign out of your account on your device, and then resign in again to update your status.

  • Step 1: Go to Setting and tap your Apple profile on the top.
  • Step 2: Scroll download and tap Sign Out. Then enter your Apple ID password and Turn Off.
  • Step 3: Now, head back to the Setting and go Sign in again.
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    Method 3: Re-organize Your Family Sharing

    If you still can’t solve this problem on your side, some problems may occur on your Family’s side. You can try removing all the family members from the Family Sharing. Then, add them again by sending invitations. You can also check the devices that the family uses to enjoy Family Sharing. You can remove the incompatible devices to solve the problem from the root. The steps are easy to follow.

  • Step 1: Click Settings and click your account information.
  • Step 2: Find and click Family Sharing.
  • Step 3: Check the members in your group and click the names to remove them.
  • Step 4: Finally, send them new invitations to rejoin the Family Sharing.
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    Method 4: Turn to Apple Music Support

    If there is absolutely nothing to do to make it work, you are supposed to turn to Apple Music Support for help. You can provide detailed information to them and they can give you suggestions and advice to deal with this problem.

    Method 5: Share Apple Music without Family Sharing

    We have shown four methods for you to make your Family Sharing work for sharing songs, videos, and news with your family. If this kind of problem constantly occurs, you must be annoyed and lose interest in this process. However, you don't want to come through this problem anymore, you still want to share your apple music with your family and your friends. What can you do? The answer must be downloading Apple Music songs on your devices and sharing them in a regular format.

    Cause we all know, Apple Music allows its subscribers to download their songs for offline playing, but subscribers can’t share their downloads with their friends and family, because what they download are data and caches due to the license agreement. So, users of Apple Music need a third-party tool for them to download their Apple Music songs, share them with their friends and family, and even transfer them to their devices to save forever.

    NoteCable Atunes Music Converter shows great features to download Apple Music as common formats with high-quality audio and 10X faster speed. Once songs are downloaded to plain format files, you can play songs via any MP3 player, burn them to CD, and move them to any device, such as iPad, iPhone, Android phone, and Android tablet. As one of the most common formats of music file, MP3 is definitely a good choice to share with others. Now, we show you a simple tutorial to download your Apple Music as MP3 files via NoteCable Music Converter.

    Note: You DON'T need to install Apple Music on your PC or Mac.

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  • Tutorial: How to Save Apple Music Forever by using NoteCable Atunes Music Converter

    Step 1Install and Run the NoteCable Atunes Music Converter and Choose Conversion Mode

    * The newest program version adopts web player conversion mode by default. Therefore, you can skip this step if you are running the latest version. For detailed instructions, please refer to The Tutorial Page.

    Launch the NoteCable Atunes Music Converter on your computer. And then you can choose App Mode or Webplayer Mode as your conversion mode.

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    Step 2 Sign into Your Apple Music Account

    On the Web Player, tap on the Sign in entrance. You ought to enter the necessary information to access your Apple Music content.

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    Step 3Customize the Output Settings

    Please go to the Settings part on the left bar. There you can set up the output format, output sound quality, output folder, output file name according to your needs. In order to add music to iMovie, you are suggested to select MP3, MAV, AIFF as output formats.

    set Apple Music the output format

    If you are used to putting all downloaded songs in one folder, you can set up the option to None on the output organized column.

    Step 4Choose Apple Music Playlists to Convert

    Open the radio, song, playlist or album you want to export from Apple Music. Click on the cover and you will find the Click to add button on your right-hand side, which is used to detect and list the songs. On the pop-up, all tracks will be checked by default.

    If you don’t want to get all of them, you can uncheck the box beside Title and tick off what you need manually or you can select Converted Filter option to filter the repeated songs that you’ve converted before.

    Click the Convert button and all thing you should do is to patiently wait until all the songs finished converting.

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    Step 5 Check out the History

    After downloading, you could navigate to Converted to view the converted Apple Music tracks. Tap the Folder icon after the songs, you can reach out to the local file. Now, you have saved Apple Music albums, songs and playlists on your PC or Mac, you can listen to the converted Apple Music songs offline on the computer.

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    Conclusion

    To draw a conclusion, we cover five ways to fix the issue of Apple Music Family Sharing not working. After we compare these solutions, we strongly recommend NoteCable Atunes Music Converter, which can help you download Apple Music songs and make it easy to be shared with your friends or families without any limitations even after the subscription expires. In addition, NoteCable provides any technical support if you meet any problems.