In Family Sharing, Ask to Buy asks parent but not organizer

Have you gotten anywhere with this?

I am having the same issue....not the wife part. I am the organizer / father...and nothing is showing up on

their requests to BUY>

Did you try swtiching from Organizer (sounds like Obama) to FATHER ?

Any luck? SSame issue here, and the notifications seem to vanish after a few seconds, so it's totally useless. I want my child to be able to send requests and me to be able to review what she has asked for before deciding. So not just the organiser / authoriser issue but also where do I find the notifications if they dong get auctioned right away? Very frustrating...

Same issue here

Same issue here. I don't receive the notifications as the organizer. My wife does but has not been able to approve it. Family sharing is very buggy!!!

Same here.. wife gets all the notifications about asking to buy from the kids but she's never near the phone. I get nothing so I cannot approve anything LOL!. Kids use ask to buy and run finding and reaching the phone to mother for approval before it gets lost! I'm having a blast with it but still very inconvenient. I just want to have the wife as a backup in case I'm busy enough at work/home to check and approve.

Please fix it!

I found some other tread where the someone explains that the reason it does seem to work (which matches my case), is when you as organizer are using a different account for iCloud that the one you are using for purchases. In my case I have my gmail account as my organizer iCloud and my very old ISP provider email address as the one for purchases. Some day long ago I added my gmail as a recovery email and for that reason I could no later just change the email address on my old apple id account since it basically became an apple id by it self and that invalidates the email to be used as replacement. Long history short since I already set up my family group it seems the solution is to add my old apple id as part of the family also so we can all share and don't loose any purchases and then remove my cc from that account and add it to my new gmail iclod id so I use the same account for both iCloud and purchases. According to the explanation in that tread that should fix the issue and I should get notifications as well as my wife. I still have to try it but I'll be traveling for a few weeks and don't want to break anything while I'm away so I'll do it later.

Hope this helps someone else if you were still not aware of that.

Thanks all!

Did you resolve your issue with Family Sharing?

If you are having this same issue, is it possible that you did this:

Designate another approver (parent/guardian)

The organizer can also give another adult in the group permission to manage Ask to Buy requests. In iOS 8, tap Settings > iCloud > Family, tap your family member, then tap Parent/Guardian. In OS X Yosemite, choose Apple menu > System Preferences > iCloud, select your family member, then select Parent/Guardian.

Only one adult needs to manage each purchase, and after it's done, the purchase is final.

Cheers,

GB

Unfortunately theres no option for the organizer to be the parent. That toggle is missing.

Same issue here. You would think they would by default set up the organizer as one of the parents but it looks like it was an oversight... Hoping iOS9 fix this