Easy & Quick Way to Hide iTunes and App Store Purchases in Family Sharing in iOS 12

Updated Dec 21,2018 | by Lane

Family sharing is a terrific feature Apple offers, with which all family members can download the apps, movies, books, and music that other family member has purchased. But you may not want to share all the items that you have purchased with your family. So you should know the method to hide iTunes and App store purchases in family sharing in iOS 12. Follow us to learn and enjoy the privacy.

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It is easy to hide apps purchased at the App Store from your family members, make it with following method:

Step 1: Tap App Store app on your iPhone/iPad to open it.

Step 2: Tap Updates at the bottom of the screen.

Step 3: Tap your profile in the up right corner, then tap Purchased, and all the apps you've downloaded from the App Store are listed here.

Step 4:  Swipe any app that you want to hide from right to left until the Hide button appears.  

Step 5: Tap the Hide button, and the app will be vanished from other family sharing members.

It’s also pretty easy to hide iTunes store purchases from unauthorized users via a quick method to the iTunes app on your Mac or PC. To hide iTunes purchases like music, movies, and TV as the following steps:

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Step 1: Launch iTunes program on your PC or laptop computer.

Step 2: Click the iTunes Store menu near the top of the window.

Step 3: Click the Purchased link in the right column at the homepage of the Store. 

Step 4: Login with your Apple ID and password, then you can see everything you've purchased from the iTunes Store including Music, Movies, TV Shows, etc. Choose the item you want to hide, hover the cursor over it, and an X icon displays at the top left of the item.

Step 5: Click the X icon and the item is hidden.

You have learned the detailed practice methods of hiding iTunes and App Store Purchases in family sharing in iOS 12. Then you may want to purchase many desired apps, videos or other things on your iPhone. However, due to the limited memory of your iOS device, you have to delete some unused files such as apps, videos or music to free up more space for iPhone. Here we introduced you an iPhone manager - IOTransfer to easily delete unused files in batch for iPhone in iOS 12.

Step 1: Free download and install IOTransfer to your Windows 7/8/8.1/10. It is compatible with iOS 11 and iOS 12.

Step 2: Run IOTransfer and click MANAGE at the top menu.

Step 3: Click Videos, Apps or others from the left menu, then select multiple files you want to delete in each category.

Step 4: Click Delete, then click Yes in the popup window which asks you whether you want to delete them from your device. 

The Bottom Line

As you can see, it is pretty easy to hide iTunes and App Store purchases in family sharing in iOS 12. No family members except you can see your hidden items without having your Apple ID. With the help of IOTransfer, you can delete the unused files to save more spaces for you to purchase your favorite items. Besides deleting files in batch, iOTransfer for iOS also supports transferring videos, music, contacts and more from iPhone to PC for backup. Now Download IOTransfer for iOS to try it for free.

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