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The Apple Support Community will permanently close on November 20, 2026. Starting today, the site will no longer accept new posts and is available in a read-only state.
You can continue to find trusted guidance and support on the official Apple Support site.
We want to thank the community members who have contributed their time and expertise to help others with their Apple products.
Trying to create a child’s account but after I sign-in to my account and put in the verification code, it tells me ‘invalid payment method error description not available’
Have you checked your payment information to make sure it is correct?
Apple ID - Payment methods that you can use with your Apple ID.
Create and add the child to a family plan on your phone first under your account. Don’t try to do it on the child’s device first. That wouldn’t work for me. Then my wife came and created my daughter an iCloud from her family sharing function on her phone. Then… boom! I just signed straight into my daughter’s newly created iCloud on her new iPad.
This answer helped me as well, thank you!
Create child’s Apple id
