All Devices Purchase sharing

[1BadManVan]

I’ve looked through the settings over and over and can’t seem to find a way to shut off this one particular setting. I’m setting up my kids iPads right now for Christmas and I’ve downloaded the initial apps that I’ve already paid for on my own account previous. (Minecraft etc)

what I want to know is how to allow them to still download free apps but limit them from being able to just buy an app whenever they want and password protect paid apps

so far it seems the only way is to make them enter a password for every app download which is annoying. Is there not a way to just password protect paid apps?

 

[Paco II]

Not sure if this is what you're asking about, but from the Apple site:

"When your family sets up purchase sharing, all new Apple Books, and App Store purchases will be billed to the organizer’s account. But the organizer can still call the shots. Just turn on Ask to Buy for children in the family. When a child initiates a purchase, an alert is sent to the organizer, who can review the download and approve or decline it right from the organizer’s device. This applies to both purchases and free downloads."

I’ve looked through the settings over and over and can’t seem to find a way to shut off this one particular setting. I’m setting up my kids iPads right now for Christmas and I’ve downloaded the initial apps that I’ve already paid for on my own account previous. (Minecraft etc)

what I want to know is how to allow them to still download free apps but limit them from being able to just buy an app whenever they want and password protect paid apps

so far it seems the only way is to make them enter a password for every app download which is annoying. Is there not a way to just password protect paid apps?

 

[1BadManVan]

Not sure if this is what you're asking about, but from the Apple site:

"When your family sets up purchase sharing, all new Apple Books, and App Store purchases will be billed to the organizer’s account. But the organizer can still call the shots. Just turn on Ask to Buy for children in the family. When a child initiates a purchase, an alert is sent to the organizer, who can review the download and approve or decline it right from the organizer’s device. This applies to both purchases and free downloads."

In theory that should work yes but when I enabled that, it only worked 1 out of 3 times I tried and even then it barely did. First time it asked me and I had to resend it 3 times because it kept coming back to ask me to sign into iTunes over and over and then finally worked. The other two times it never even popped up to ask the permission on my end and so it wouldn’t allow the app to download.

Another the issue with that is even the free apps require my permission every time. So even if it would work properly in theory, that’s a lot of pop ups for 3 kids just trying to download a simple free game lol.

My solution for the time being is to just disable the purchase sharing. I downloaded the few paid apps and installed them so they have them, the subscriptions are still shared for Apple Music, tv+ and arcade and work fine atleast