Ask to buy notification missed

I am having this same problem.

Anyone have a solution???

Thanks for the solution......I had exactly the same problem, but once i had logged out my ID from iTunes on my daughters Ipad and added her new iCloud username into iTunes, problem solved 🙂 and the notifications ping to my straight to my phone.

It turns out that on the child device you have to log out of the parent account on BOTH iCloud AND iTunes separately and then log both of them back in using the new child account. After that it magically starts working.

issue: the message for granting the authorization desappeared when unlocking my iPad. Not possible to find it on my iPad.

What worked for me:

1. Go to: Settings --> Notifications --> Messages

2. The "Alert style when unlock" was on "none". Select "Banner" or "Alerts"

3. Ask my daughter to try again to get the app

4. Grant the authorization (Apple Store login required)

5. Ask my daughter to try again to get the app: this time the system downloaded the app

You can also authorise when selecting the app in your child's account. However you need to be within the app you want to purchase. When you select 'buy' a notification will come up above the app for the parent to authorise it directly.

I've had all of these problems:

1. Trouble finding the notifications

2. Then, finding the notifications but not be able to give permission, and then they go away.

3. Now, I just don't get the notifications, so I have to be present when my child wants to buy something so I can just give permission there.

I will try the logging in and out solutions--but, gosh, it stinks to spend so much time trying to figure this out and then waiting for answers . . .

This has been bothering me for a long time, finally looked for an answer only to find there is none. It's absurd not to have a console of some sort to manage family accounts from. I understand Apple's lawsuit against Samsung now, Samsung really has stolen Apple's model of selling very nice hardware bogged down with absolute crap software, with a healthy dose of Microsoft's Kafkaesque security hobbles. Thank goodness Apple doesn't monitor this forum in anyway, or listen to customer feedback at all. God forbid they respond to their customers, after all, we're idiots.

I know this is an old thread, but it seems that the Family sharing "ask to buy" still is buggy as ever. First, I have two daughters, one of them bought a game (Octagon...), ask to buy, I get the notification on my iPhone, tried to approve it, a blank screen with "cancel" on the top left, and "loading.." animation on the middle, and nothing else, and waited forever, it's just stuck in that loading state. Click cancel, and basically the notification is gone and app download is declined. Notification also didn't show up on my Macbook pro. I asked her to try again, while I was logged in on my Mac, and the notification showed up on both my Mac and iPhone. Again I tried approving on my iPhone, same thing, hangs on "loading". But since I saw the notification on my Mac, tried it there, works just fine, I was able to approve the Mac App store game.

Now my second daughter wanted to download the same game. She is not seeing that the game is already purchased by her sister (which both of them is part of my Family sharing). She tried "ask to buy", i saw the notification on my phone, this time again, not showing up on my Mac. Tried to approve again on my iPhone, hangs again on "loading". But this time, since I can't see the notification on my Mac even when I am online, I can't approve the purchase of a Free item, which another family member already purchased. Even if we try again several times. Same experience.

I also tried approving on my iPad, the same happens... loading... forever.

Having the same issue that others are having, my issue is on Clash Royale my stepson is trying to buy gems, I approved the purchase but since I updated out CC on itunes I needed to enter the CCV code, I've entered the code three times on three different devices and it's still working. He still cannot make additional purchases when he tries Clash Royale shows that he has a pending purchase so not only did his purchase not get approved he can't make any additional purchases. Very frustration.

The answer for me was that the 'swipe down' menu now also swipes left and right once it is down. So you may be in the area with your calendar and news feeds and need to swipe left to access the 'Recent' menu which will show you all your alerts including the app approval requests.

Well, Apple have managed to hide this really well.
This is how you find it:
* Put your finger outside the screen at the top

* Swipe down
* Yet another kind of well hidden list is shown where you find the Family share requests

To Apple:
I looked in my sons Family share item in the Settings, in the App store app and in the settings of the swipe-right panel (what ever that is called) and was expecting to find the Family share notice. I was also expecting my son to be able to send yet another request, to be able to find the notice again. He could either re-send the same request nor send a new one for another app. Beside that I'm also expecting a setting so that my son can download any free app, but not buy an app nor download an app having In-App Purchase. When downloading a free app, I would also like to be able to have the option to get notified when he download a free app.

@orjtor. I completely agree. I had to setup this awful buggy system because it was demanded by school. But the entire system is setup to give you stomach sores. Totally stupid, in 3 years time, still completely broken.

IT worked for me in the notification center. Thanks for the insight. I was looking all over for it.

My daughter keeps resending the notifications to me, but they now do nothing when I click them. Apple has nicely shot themselves in the foot because I can't purchase this song.