Apple Family Sharing

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2012–2023), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Apple Family Sharing, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Parent's iPhone stops receiving permission requests from kids' iPads, needing repeated workarounds2023-07-29
Managing kids' subscriptions requires an Apple device or iTunes; icloud.com lacks parity for payment settings2023-01-08
Family members can accidentally approve purchases by mis-tapping; subscriptions are hidden from the account holder2021-08-16
Family setup is needlessly confusing and complicated for users2012-12-25