buddyrich33

IAP have been shareable via family sharing since iOS14, assuming the developer opts in. From what Patrick said, it seems IAP family sharing is turned on... which is good. The individual app IAPs work like V1. They don't even need the affinity account to register the app. My concern is specifically about the Universal License IAP since it needs an affinity account to tie the license to since you only buy the IAP in a specific app (say Mac version of Photos)... the iOS version of Photos doesn't know you have the IAP for Mac Photos... Theoretically if the universal IAP can be shared, each family member could create their own affinity account and register the family shared IAP for the universal license to their own affinity account, but I am not sure if thats the intent (or if Affinity will registers a shared IAP like that). Alternatively I could just log into my affinity account on their copies of the app, but it would be a pain to have to do that after every update if the account doesn't stay logged in after update, so a shareable IAP is easier...

While I would like an answer to this as well, one option would be to use the same Affinity account on each machine since that would have the universal license attached to it, but I would prefer to just use the IAP and family share it as my proof of purchase. It probably works for the individual app IAP, but the Universal license IAP can't be seen from the other apps (ie. if you buy the Universal IAP in Photo, its technical a different IAP in Designer), hence needing to tie the purchase to an affinity account. If you can family share the Universal License IAP you could have up to 5 (or is it 6) people that could create their own Affinity account with a universal license, which might not be intended.

Do I have to create an Affinity account to use the universal licence if I buy the Universal Licence IAP on the Mac or IOS app store? Can I just use the IAP itself to register like v1?Especially if I don't need the Windows version, but would use the iOS/Mac IAP purchase as it acted as the activation in v1 to download the retail version? Don't want to have to create an affinity account.