iOS 8 Family Sharing?

2014 · 6 replies · Features

This thread is a feature request from 2014, preserved from the original Roomie Remote forum. It reflects what users were asking for at the time — many requests from this era have since shipped in Roomie Remote X. See current compatibility for today's device support.

In short

Does Roomie plan to support Family Sharing for the app and IAPs? Would be nice to not have to fuss with changing Apple I — Staff replied: “Yes, we have enabled that. It only works on iOS 8 of course. Thank you.”

Question 2014-08 · older version

Does Roomie plan to support Family Sharing for the app and IAPs? Would be nice to not have to fuss with changing Apple IDs on family devices.

Roomie Staff 2014-08 · older version

Yes, we have enabled that. It only works on iOS 8 of course.

Thank you.

Member 2014-08 · older version

Great news. While I will never criticize a developer for adopting a paid upgrade strategy or one device per purchase, those that choose to be especially generous deserve to be recognized.

Member 2014-09 · older version

Family Sharing doesn't support IAPs, each member would have to repay for the IAP. Will future versions of Roomie support regular app purchases that includes all features? Or is there any way to somehow allow Family Sharing while also sharing the features of the IAPs?

Roomie Staff 2014-09 · older version

Do you have documentation for that? Apple's guide implies that in-app purchases are at least partially shared:

developer.apple.com/icloud/docu ... y-sharing/

It would be good to get a clear document from them on how it works. We don't have any role in it other than the fact that we approved Roomie to support it.

Thank you.

Roomie Staff 2014-09 · older version

Interesting. Well that's probably true then and as you can see from those posts, pretty much only Apple seems to know about that. Sounds like something obvious Apple would fix perhaps even in a maintenance release.

Anyway, the old method to handle this that we've documented for years still works fine:

roomieremote.com/faq/#multidevice

Thank you.

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