My wife and I each have 50GB storage presently. We would like to upgrade one plan to 200GB storage and use Family Sharing in lieu of the 2d 50 GB storage plan. What is the easiest way to accomplish this?

My wife and I each have 50 GB storage plans presently. We want to upgrade 1 plan to 200GB storage and use Family Sharing in lieu of the 2d plan. What is the easiest way to accomplish this?

Posted on Nov 19, 2021 9:04 AM

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Posted on Nov 19, 2021 9:16 AM

Decide which of you is going to be the organizer. The organizer then upgrades their storage to 200GB. This done, they invite the other family member to join. When they join their current storage plan will be cancelled and the remaining part of the subscription refunded. (No data will be lost in the process.)


Each of you will have a 'ringfenced' storage area within the overall storage (there is no limit on how much storage any one member can have so theoretically on member could hog all the storage). Each area is private from the other unless sharing of specified items it allowed.


Please read through this for more details: Set up Family Sharing - Apple Support

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Nov 19, 2021 9:16 AM in response to photos1975

Decide which of you is going to be the organizer. The organizer then upgrades their storage to 200GB. This done, they invite the other family member to join. When they join their current storage plan will be cancelled and the remaining part of the subscription refunded. (No data will be lost in the process.)


Each of you will have a 'ringfenced' storage area within the overall storage (there is no limit on how much storage any one member can have so theoretically on member could hog all the storage). Each area is private from the other unless sharing of specified items it allowed.


Please read through this for more details: Set up Family Sharing - Apple Support

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My wife and I each have 50GB storage presently. We would like to upgrade one plan to 200GB storage and use Family Sharing in lieu of the 2d 50 GB storage plan. What is the easiest way to accomplish this?

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