Creating Itunes Account for Child

I tried to set it up for my son (10) and when I received the message about the minimum age requirement I went back and used my own birth date (I'm over 13!) but I still receive the same "minimum age requirement"message, even with the new birth date....did anyone run into this problem and if so, how did you resolve it?

Having exact same problem there seems noway that the old acct can be deleted - yet when i ask apple id to check that there is an id existing with that address it says cannot be found.

Uhm how did you make an acount? i can't seem to find a way to create a apple ID for my daughter , she's 12 years old.. it said shes too young to make an acount, now we cant download games for her , we tried to make an acount several times, with different emails and different years of age we even tried the year 1970 , but it still says shes too young

how did you do it??

does anyone know how i verify my apple account

The only work around that I could find for my 8 year old son was to login w/ my Apple ID & password. This allowed for us to download games and music from iTunes & the App Store. I appreciate the the age requirement, I just wish the device would clarify the actual age (i.e. 13) when creating an account. Hope this helps.

Yeah, the only way to create an Apple ID for someone under the age of 13 is to make sure you use a birth year that makes them 13 or older on the FIRST TRY. Once you have a birthday associated with an email address Apple locks them in. That email address wont' be able to get an iTunes account until it's 13th Birthday.

There is a way to create an account without associating any credit card, but you'd need an iTunes Gift card or a prepaid credit card. That's what I gave my 13 year old niece and I load up 10-50 dollars every once in a while.

The thing is, If you have a kid who's under 13, it's probably better that they don't have access to your iTunes account because they can purchase things with your attached credit card not knowing that they are racking up real money in charges. If you do let your child use your ID, make sure it's password protected and that you don't give them the password EVER. Especially now with all of the "in app purchases" it's really easy to rack up a HUGE bill buying virtual smurfberries or whatever.

http://moneyland.time.com/2011/02/08/1400-for-smurfberries-why-you-should-think- twice-before-handing-an-iphone-over-to-an-8-year-old/

PASSWORDS wont' be hacked by children if they are never told what the password is in the firstplace.

Also remember that the iTunes TOS states that kids under 13 can't have their own Apple ID. So if you are caught they can delete the account...maybe more, not really sure. This is why they "lock" birthdays to email addresses, so you can't realize that you've made a mistake and go back and make the kid's birthday 10 years later and just keep going.

Since you can authorize up to 5 computers with your own account information, you can set up your child's computer with your own account information (not sure I would do this for a neice). I did this with my 11 year old's laptop. I then went into EDIT and clicked on PREFERENCES... then went through each tab at the top to turn off anything I didn't want her to have access to. Especially important is the PARENTAL tab. There, you can turn off the iTunes Store as well as set up a password so he or she cannot undo the changes you just made.

Hope this helps. 🙂