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Q: Convert existing Apple ID to Child Apple ID

Hello Everyone,

 

Due to the number of Apple devices in our home, and being personalized to each other my children (both under 13) have their own Apple devices.  Because my wife and I did not want them to have access to our accounts,   I created separate Apple IDs with their names and my date of birth, but I manage (They don't know passwords, etc). so that they could use facetime and iMessage with their grandparents from their own devices.  As they have gotten older, they have also developed their own taste in music and apps and have used the different Apple IDs with iTunes cards they get for gifts sometimes and as rewards.


With the roll out of iOS and Family sharing I now have a situation where it would be nice to share some (not all) of the purchases spread across 4 accounts but when I add my children's accounts under family sharing it shows them as adults , Appleid.apple.com wont allow me to modify the birthdays for my kids to the correct dates. 

 

I know for a fact I am not the only one in this situation, so I'm asking the following

 

 

Is there a way to convert my kid's existing Apple IDs to the new Child Apple ID accounts so that I can approve iTunes purchases if I link them through family sharing?

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Sep 17, 2014 12:45 PM

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  • by chrispierce,

    chrispierce chrispierce Sep 20, 2014 7:54 AM in response to karl147
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    Sep 20, 2014 7:54 AM in response to karl147

    you have to use a birthday to make the child 13 ... anything before the child being under 13 won't work.

  • by MarcusJT,

    MarcusJT MarcusJT Sep 20, 2014 1:14 PM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 20, 2014 1:14 PM in response to Csound1

    Well I'm sure people don't like lying, I don't like it. But tell that to the child who will lose two years of game centre progress. I can understand why folk resort to it - because the service provider (Apple) has failed to meet their customer needs.

     

    My children have 'blank' iCloud accounts - no age added so no Store access - they just have access to iCloud, iMessage/ Game Centre.  Then I sign in as Dad to download anything and all their apps are associated with my ID.  Looks like I cannot take advantage of the new features, which is a shame, until either:

    • Apple allow for the change to account
    • My children reach 13
    • We abandon all their Games etc progress and issue them with new Apple ID's


    I am however, delighted to see this new feature. Once things like this are ironed out and for future use it's a very welcome addition indeed.

     

    Best wishes...

  • by Will Dinyes,

    Will Dinyes Will Dinyes Sep 22, 2014 10:37 AM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 22, 2014 10:37 AM in response to Csound1

    Csound1 wrote:

     

    Grateful_Dude wrote:

     

    Apple needs to provide a path for all of us parents who have had to do things like this in the past onboard to the new model.

    A path for parents who lie about the ages of their children?

     

    I disagree.

     

    And I lied how, again?  I set up accounts for my kids long ago (long enough ago that their addresses are @me, part of Apple's first shot at family accounts, if you can remember back that far) so they could get e-mail on their computer.  Over time, these accounts grew @icloud e-mails and became useable for logging in to iCloud, largely without my direct intervention.  When I set that up, under MobileMe, I was never asked for an age.  In fact, now, it lists their birth years as 0000.  So, please, do step off your soap box long enough to realize that there are cases where these accounts were created long before a specific age requirement was made, or even asked for.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 22, 2014 10:50 AM in response to Will Dinyes
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    Sep 22, 2014 10:50 AM in response to Will Dinyes

    They're your kids, set whatever example you want.


    But please note that I was not replying to you, you just jumped in.

  • by Will Dinyes,

    Will Dinyes Will Dinyes Sep 22, 2014 10:59 AM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 22, 2014 10:59 AM in response to Csound1

    So . . . you don't have any cogent response to my point, that plenty of people could have set these up before there were any age restrictions, then?  That, because I set them up under Apple's *explicitly designed* Family Plan for MobileMe, that there is, indeed, a way I could have set this up, adhering to the terms of service, without being, as you so crassly threw about, a liar?  Like many people on here, I'd like for Apple to provide me a way to take accounts that I set up, properly, and convert them to child accounts, properly. 

     

    However, I do have an excellent example of Net Troll to show them, now.  So, thanks for that.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 22, 2014 11:06 AM in response to Will Dinyes
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    Sep 22, 2014 11:06 AM in response to Will Dinyes

    Speak for yourself, 'plenty of people' can and do, they don't need a self appointed spokesman.

  • by Will Dinyes,

    Will Dinyes Will Dinyes Sep 22, 2014 11:12 AM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 22, 2014 11:12 AM in response to Csound1

    You mean like how you've made yourself the self appointed spokesperson for what Apple should and should not do?

     

    *sigh* I imagine this is about to be deleted for inappropriate discussion by the mods anyway.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 22, 2014 11:15 AM in response to Will Dinyes
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    Sep 22, 2014 11:15 AM in response to Will Dinyes

    Will Dinyes wrote:

     

    You mean like how you've made yourself the self appointed spokesperson for what Apple should and should not do?

    Please provide a link to a quote of me saying what Apple should do.

  • by MikeCrook184,

    MikeCrook184 MikeCrook184 Sep 22, 2014 2:44 PM in response to Will Dinyes
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    Sep 22, 2014 2:44 PM in response to Will Dinyes

    I'm 100% with you. This person must not have kids. Also, this was the work around until family share was created. 

  • by Roddy Barros,

    Roddy Barros Roddy Barros Sep 23, 2014 6:01 AM in response to karl147
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    Sep 23, 2014 6:01 AM in response to karl147

    I'm still getting that message, even when sticking to the 13 year old limit. Is there anything else that has to be done, maybe? His primary e-mail is a Gmail address, so maybe I have to change that to the iCloud one?

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 27, 2014 1:09 AM in response to Spudge25
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    Sep 27, 2014 1:09 AM in response to Spudge25

    Spudge25 wrote:

     

    Back when Apple used to charge for email accounts, before icloud, I set up a family account which was a discount price for family addresses so my son had an Apple ID since a very young age (6-7) and I could scan all his sent/received emails before they were sent on to him/the recipient. So apple used to have child accounts. Now, they seem to have forgotten about them, ditched all under 13s and blocked the change DoB feature. Massive let down from apple that I would like to see resolved soon.

    Everyone gets one birth, why do you need to enter more than one?

  • by Thestrategery1,

    Thestrategery1 Thestrategery1 Sep 27, 2014 2:27 AM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 27, 2014 2:27 AM in response to Csound1

    Wow, my post got removed for telling someone about an error they may have made about the topic of this thread? this thread is very useful. Apple customers are excited about the new family share feature and want to be able to use it. In order for children to use ipads/iPod touch in the past parent had to set up adult accounts for their children. Now those same accounts can't be used with the family share feature and until Apple has a fix what is the problem changing the age of the user. The same user that likely already uses an incorrect age? are you saying apple devices shouldn't be used by kids 13 years and younger? This just seems ridiculous to me.

     

    Parents aren't trying to change the age of their kids. They are just trying to keep the account their children have likley used for years along with all the saved data and apps.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 27, 2014 2:33 AM in response to Thestrategery1
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    Sep 27, 2014 2:33 AM in response to Thestrategery1

    Thestrategery1 wrote:

     

    Wow, my post got removed for telling someone about an error they may have made about the topic of this thread? this thread is very useful. Apple customers are excited about the new family share feature and want to be able to use it. In order for children to use ipads/iPod touch in the past parent had to set up adult accounts for their children. Now those same accounts can't be used with the family share feature and until Apple has a fix what is the problem changing the age of the user. The same user that likely already uses an incorrect age? are you saying apple devices shouldn't be used by kids 13 years and younger? This just seems ridiculous to me.

     

    Parents aren't trying to change the age of their kids. They are just trying to keep the account their children have likley used for years along with all the saved data and apps.

    Let's be honest here.

     

    The position they find themselves in now is because of a previous lie, if the child's age had been honestly entered this issue would not exist.

     

    There is a lesson here.

  • by Thestrategery1,

    Thestrategery1 Thestrategery1 Sep 27, 2014 5:49 AM in response to Csound1
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    Sep 27, 2014 5:49 AM in response to Csound1

       you sir are a troll and it's actually really funny so I'll roll with it...

    You are incorrect, as some users had stated they had child accounts years ago when Apple supported them. They used the correct ages and they are still running into this issue today.

     

    You are correct that if the child's birthday had been correctly entered this issue wouldn't have happened. But the child would likely not have been using an apple product since there would have been no way for them to use the App Store, iTunes, imessage, or FaceTime.

     

    Explain for me the solution these parents had, I would love to see that there was one.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Sep 27, 2014 6:24 AM in response to Thestrategery1
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    Sep 27, 2014 6:24 AM in response to Thestrategery1

    What is there to explain, these current issues are the result of earlier lies told about their children's date of birth.

     

    Which part of that do you not understand?

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