Hi,since some great Apple updates it keeps sending requests from kids to approve purchases to my mac or some other devices,but not to my iPhone. I don;t know what did they change, but how can I make my iPhone (ios14) to only device to receive those request?
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how to make apple send request from kids purchases only to iphone
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The family sharing notification goes to your Apple account email address as family organiser.
Nothing has changed so my best guess would be you have either changed your account email, or created two or something like that.
You need to make sure it's the correct/same email on the phone or you won't get it on the phone.
But I can't imagine how you would stop it being sent to the other devices unless they are not logged in to Apple
It is possible perhaps that it's linked to imessage? If you go into imessage preferences on the mac check the addresses you can be contacted at and remove your Apple email address. Then you won't get a notification on your mac if that's what it's using.
I don't think anything has changed on family sharing in a long time and certainly not in an update.
Afterthought: maybe you need to go into imessage on your phone and make sure it CAN be contacted by your apple email there. I don't know if these are universal settings or device specific however.
Nothing has changed so my best guess would be you have either changed your account email, or created two or something like that.
You need to make sure it's the correct/same email on the phone or you won't get it on the phone.
But I can't imagine how you would stop it being sent to the other devices unless they are not logged in to Apple
It is possible perhaps that it's linked to imessage? If you go into imessage preferences on the mac check the addresses you can be contacted at and remove your Apple email address. Then you won't get a notification on your mac if that's what it's using.
I don't think anything has changed on family sharing in a long time and certainly not in an update.
Afterthought: maybe you need to go into imessage on your phone and make sure it CAN be contacted by your apple email there. I don't know if these are universal settings or device specific however.
The thing is Apple somehow choose my mac to receive those requests instead of my iphone. I use to received them on iphone.I do not want to received them on comp,because I'm not always sitting behind it nd I have always phone with me.Signing of the apple account on comp is not solutions.
Any way,how to set preferences on which device I want to receive purchase requests from family members?
Any way,how to set preferences on which device I want to receive purchase requests from family members?
Like I said, it's sending it to the email address that you've got set up as the family organiser which is probably the same one as your apple id email address.
I'm pretty sure if you go into imessage on the mac as I said, and remove it as a way of being contacted for messages, and go into the same on the phone, as I said and make sure it's there in the imessage settings, then you'll have what you want.
But it hasn't decided anything different. It's sending messages to that address just the same as it always has and if you have it set up to receive messages on 2 devices it'll send it on 2 devices. Or three.
I'm pretty sure if you go into imessage on the mac as I said, and remove it as a way of being contacted for messages, and go into the same on the phone, as I said and make sure it's there in the imessage settings, then you'll have what you want.
But it hasn't decided anything different. It's sending messages to that address just the same as it always has and if you have it set up to receive messages on 2 devices it'll send it on 2 devices. Or three.
Of course it's sending to device with with email address,but why is not sending to my IPHONE.? Why?I don't see it in settings. I'm set as family organizer.When I set my wife's iphone ROLE as parent/guardian,she will receive it,but not me.When I change her settings to ADULT,she will stop receive request.When i go to family sharing settings I don't see anything about not receiving request.
I'm using my mac mini as media hub in living-room and I has to be sigh of apple ID because I will be recieving those request on my,instead of on my iphone.
I use to receive those requests on my iphone,but after some great upgrade ir stopped.
