Apple Changes How Families Pay In The App Store

It seems Apple is getting ready to make a shift in the way that families can share content purchased in its app store by making it easier to distinguish sharable from not sharable material. A new tag was discovered by iFun  that will apparently work within the new Family Sharing feature coming soon with the release of iOS 8.

First announced at Apple¹s WWDC, the Family Sharing does exactly what its name implies: allows families to share a single list of purchases of movies, music and Apple apps, all of which charged to a single credit card. All purchases must be cleared by the primary account in the Family Plan (the card holder), reports 9to5Mac.

Developers do not have to opt-in to this program. Apps that are not developed to be Family Share compatible must be purchased individually by each account holder.

The new tagging discovered last week indicates that Apple wants it to be clear which apps are sharable and which are not by making it part of the standard listing information in the iTunes store for an app.

Last week’s run is likely a test drive for the new labeling system, as it only appeared in a few markets and on a few apps. It is expected that the labeling will be pulled until the iOS launch scheduled for early September.

iOS will be launching alongside Apple¹s widely anticipated new iPhone, set to drop onto the marker the same day.