Currently there’s 3 members in the iCloud family. Me, my wife (The organizer )and our 15 years old son. We want to set up the share payment so he can pay for some apps he need in for school (Studying abroad) using my wife’s card. However when that share payment method is set, I am also forced to use that payment rather than my own card. Is there a way to not restrict the adult or in this case me ?
Muguy's response is correct but I'll go a bit further and provide some information that might offer solutions:
Only one person, the Organizer, can (and must) have a card, but the Organizer can avoid having this charged by others by asking them to make sure they have adequate personal balance (e.g., from gift cards) to cover their purchases. Other family members can only pay for things by using their personal balance or by letting the remainder automatically roll over to the Organizer's payment method (such as a credit card but not the Organizer's personal account balance).
Based on: How to share apps and purchases with your family - Apple Support and How apps, content, and subscriptions from Apple are billed - Apple Support
An alternative is described in this document: Add a family member to your shared subscriptions - Apple Support
"If you're the family organizer and you don't want to pay for family members' purchases and subscriptions, you can turn off Purchase Sharing [ How to share apps and purchases with your family - Apple Support ]. When Purchase Sharing is turned off, everyone must use their own payment method. When Purchase Sharing is turned off, family members can share subscriptions, but they can't share individual purchases like apps or books."
I don't know if turning off purchase sharing when the son needs to buy something and then turning it back on again would provide a solution (I don't use Family Sharing).
No. If app sharing is enabled, the organizer makes all payments.
Family Sharing - Adult and minor payments method?
