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Q: Stop adults from purchasing using family sharing

I am the main account holder, and therefore it uses my Credit Card. I wish to prevent other Adults in my Family Group From making purchases without my knowledge or authorisation. I believe you can ask children to request authorisation but any adult can just buy without restriction. If this is not possible then Apple needs to seriously fix this and allow adults to purchase with their own cards and restrict minors only.

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Jan 1, 2015 9:03 AM

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Q: Stop adults from purchasing using family sharing

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  • by joe_7399,

    joe_7399 joe_7399 Jan 2, 2015 11:56 AM in response to .zaba
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    Jan 2, 2015 11:56 AM in response to .zaba

    Hi zaba,

     

    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!

     

    Other adults in your Family Sharing group can use iTunes Store gift cards if they do not wish to have the payment default to the organizer. The individual adult can add a gift card credit to their individual account that will be charged first, before defaulting to the organizer’s payment method.

     

    Family purchases and payments - Apple Support

     

    Making purchases

    After you set up your family, any time a family member initiates a new purchase it will be billed directly to your account unless that family member has gift or store credit. First, their store credit will be used to pay the partial or total bill. The remainder will bill to the family organizer's card. As the family organizer, any receipts generated by the transaction will be sent to you. Learn more about how iTunes Store purchases are billed.

     

     

    Best regards,

    Joe

  • by .zaba,Helpful

    .zaba .zaba Jan 5, 2015 12:19 AM in response to joe_7399
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    Jan 5, 2015 12:19 AM in response to joe_7399

    Thanks for your answer, although this is a solution it still doesn't give me control over the account, as a card holder I expect full control over purchases, in a similar way to asking for authorisation when children make a purchase I should be able to make the same request for adults. Its disconcerting to receive receipts for purchases you have no prior knowledge of. I don't follow Apple's logic in implementing it this way, Individual members of a family group should have the option to use their own payment method or use that of the family owners if appropriate. This needs a re-think Apple, although I welcome the initiative of Family groups, there is still a way to go in implementation I think.

  • by CarlotaAmerican,

    CarlotaAmerican CarlotaAmerican Jan 25, 2015 3:23 AM in response to .zaba
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    Jan 25, 2015 3:23 AM in response to .zaba

    I also agree with you. I have teenagers and they can ramp up quite a bill if they are left without at list a spend limit.

  • by ColinHutchinson,

    ColinHutchinson ColinHutchinson Feb 23, 2015 11:53 AM in response to joe_7399
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    Feb 23, 2015 11:53 AM in response to joe_7399

    I accept you are stating the facts as written by Apple but it is a convoluted way just to allow someone to buy something on their own debit card. You have to wonder what Apple is thinking about sometimes because it's certainly not how their customers are thinking.

  • by Yivey13,

    Yivey13 Yivey13 Dec 6, 2015 7:13 PM in response to joe_7399
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    Dec 6, 2015 7:13 PM in response to joe_7399

    Is there not another option for adults to pay for their own purchases instead of using the account holder's money?

  • by ACECORP,

    ACECORP ACECORP Dec 14, 2015 1:22 PM in response to .zaba
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    Dec 14, 2015 1:22 PM in response to .zaba

    Any solution on this? This is becoming more and more of a problem. We have two sets of parents plus my kids all living in our home and having fun with iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV, and I need for everyone to be able to share purchases, but we can't have adult family members be allowed to indiscriminately make purchases off of my card unless I can approve them just like children making purchases. I can't believe there isn't a fix for this. Either force everyone to use the approval request system like the kids or restrict purchase power to specific adults, and force other adults to either enter their own payment method or force them to add a gift card for their own purchases. There has got to be a fix.

  • by TheTimeTraveller,

    TheTimeTraveller TheTimeTraveller Feb 22, 2016 1:57 AM in response to .zaba
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    Feb 22, 2016 1:57 AM in response to .zaba

    +1 Kindly come up with a solution for this.

  • by raregrit,

    raregrit raregrit Mar 3, 2016 1:47 PM in response to .zaba
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    Mar 3, 2016 1:47 PM in response to .zaba

    I totally agree with you here, I want to setup family sharing with two family members one an adult and one a child.

    I am really unhappy about not being able to block all purchases from other people.

     

    Why on earth Apple can you not understand that people actually want control over there own finances!

    Giving other people effectively free use of you Credit Card is absurd.

     

    All I want (and probably most people) is a View option, so if I buy a Movie I don't have to be around if they want to watch it.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Mar 4, 2016 12:29 PM in response to raregrit
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    Mar 4, 2016 12:29 PM in response to raregrit

    Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.

     

    Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

     

    Feedback

  • by SAMIPRO11,

    SAMIPRO11 SAMIPRO11 Mar 20, 2016 7:55 PM in response to joe_7399
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    Mar 20, 2016 7:55 PM in response to joe_7399

    I am the organizer of Family Sharing and I invited my two brothers to join and also my good friend and while they're all adults not children, I am not able to stop them from making purchases from my account. I do NOT understand why I don't have the option to stop them from making these purchases on MY account without MY consent or authorization.

    I am aware the option to be asked is enabled for children so why can't the same option be enabled for adults? Why can't they be in my Family Sharing while making their own purchases? I do not want to have to remove them from Family Sharing as the only option. Please fix this issue.

  • by geordie.lr,

    geordie.lr geordie.lr Jul 29, 2016 9:47 PM in response to .zaba
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    Jul 29, 2016 9:47 PM in response to .zaba

    It will be something to do with digital music rights, restricting people sharing purchased apps, itunes music and apple music accounts etc to ensure maximum profit for Apple and their partners.

     

    For the majority, it should be assumed that an adult in your family is trusted enough and if they breach that trust then you address it with them directly - it's no different than having a shared bank account or credit card.

     

    After all, you have pre-authorised them for payment! In my opinion it make sense for Apple and their partners (devs/music companies)

     

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  • by LACAllen,

    LACAllen LACAllen Apr 29, 2016 7:46 AM in response to geordie.lr
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    Apr 29, 2016 7:46 AM in response to geordie.lr

    IMO, it's not even about maximizing profit. If that were the case, there would no sharing at all.

     

    It's an attempt to strike a balance. Sharing within a family is the entire point of Family Sharing. It's not Neighbourhood Sharing, or Workplace Sharing.

     

    Here is an example of users wanting technology to resolve what are not technical issues.

     

    "you bought it, you pay for it" is an age old issue that won't be resolved, IMO, by any means of technology, other than removing an "offender" from the privilege and benefits of sharing. A fiscal timeout if you will.

  • by Elemnt55,

    Elemnt55 Elemnt55 Jul 29, 2016 9:05 PM in response to .zaba
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    Jul 29, 2016 9:05 PM in response to .zaba

    This is absurd, why would there be no option to block adults... I am bamboozled by the thought process.  I like to have the family share but it also allows all family to buy on my dime?  This needs to be fixed NOW!  Please if anyone important at apple reads this stuff you need to add the option to block adults, you aren't that dumb..

  • by LACAllen,

    LACAllen LACAllen Jul 29, 2016 9:44 PM in response to Elemnt55
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    Jul 29, 2016 9:44 PM in response to Elemnt55

    The entire design of Family Sharing is to have a unified payment method. If you have adults in your family that are abusing your payment method, remove them.

     

    You knew their purchases would be charged to your payment method when you set Family Sharing up.

     

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    You can vent your frustrations to Apple here.

     

    >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/ <<<

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