I have family sharing set-up for our family and it is a combination of child and adult accounts. For the adult accounts I want to turn on the "ask to buy" feature rather than just letting them buy anything they want at anytime using my credit card. How do I do this?
Yes i strongly agree.
I need the organizer to have full control if the financial (in this case, purchase) even to adult member.
Adult member is part of family also.
Apple please help to update this feature.
Thank you.
I do not understand why I need to let my family members access my credit card rather than use their own iTunes gift cards.
If they are children under Ask To Buy are they dropped on their 18th birthday or given free run of the parent's credit card?
Thanks King Penguin, so is there a similar feature for adult accounts in the Family Sharing plan? I want to lock down the adult accounts as well.
I totally agree with you! The family organizer should be able to control who can make purchases whether the requestor is an adult or not. And since when do under 18y get free reign of anyone's credit card? I'd sure like to know how Apple came about deciding it's ok for a 14y old to make purchases without approval first?!!
I am questioning why this is an inherent aspect. I see it as an inherent flaw and cannot imagine a situation where it would be of value to the customer.
A better solution is to continue only buying music on CD and uploading to each device.
I understand that being over 18 may be sufficient for a person to be responsible. But it would be a much better control feature if you only shared your purchases with family and make your own purchases and the others their own too. Maybe I have credit, and I want to buy an item, or maybe I want to buy it with the orginzer credit. Those two possibilities are more than real. I mean, now there is apple music, with a great family plan, maybe I just want to share that, and not everything with a "relative" grown up, that just turned 18. Or worse, maybe I have a relative that is an adult but he has different capabilities. That person for the fact of being an adult will always be controled on his expenses in the real world, being over 18, but I can't do it on family sharing, though I want to share with him all my purchases. I mean, it's not that difficult to enable, it is much better to give control to the organizer that makes the family group, to invite anyone, controlling their expenses. If I am invited to a family group and maybe I don't like that I cannot use the orginzers credit card without asking, then I don't join. It's that simple. Thank you, hope contitions for family sharing change.
'Ask to buy' is only an option for child accounts and under-18s (that age varies by country) : Request and make purchases with Ask to Buy :
Ask to Buy is a feature of Family Sharing, and the family organizer can turn on Ask to Buy for any family member who isn't an adult.
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Ask to Buy is on by default for any children under 13, and you'll be asked if you want to enable Ask to Buy when inviting anyone under 18 to your family group.* If you turn off Ask to Buy for a family member after they turn 18,* you can't turn it on again.
If they have credit on their account then that will be used : Family purchases and payments - Apple Support
After you set up your family, any time a family member initiates a new purchase it will be billed directly to your account unless that family member has gift or store credit. First, their store credit will be used to pay the partial or total bill. The remainder will bill to the family organizer's card.
For turning 18 see my first reply above.
johnfromcedar park wrote:
I do not understand why I need to let my family members access my credit card rather than use their own iTunes gift cards.
John,
An inherent aspect of Family Sharing is that the Family Organizer is taking financial responsibility for all members.
If the member is one whom you do not trust to maintain a sufficient credit balance per the document quoted by KP, then yes the charges will go to your credit card. You should immediately avail yourself of the following procedure:
The family organizer can remove anyone over 13 from the family group at any time.
If you have a credit on your account then it will be used for your purchases ; if you want to use the organiser's credit card then ask them to buy it and you can then share it.
If you want to leave feedback for Apple about it (these are user-to-user forums) : http://www.apple.com/feedback/
... Family sharing is a trap!!!!!
Hardly.
If you find it is not meeting your needs, the Organizer can remove any adult member, or the member can remove him/herself:
Leave Family Sharing - Apple Support
When a person leaves the group, they lose access to the content of others, but they keep all their own content.
I'd sure like to know how Apple came about deciding it's ok for a 14y old to make purchases without approval first?!!
Huh? That is exactly what Ask To Buy is for. For any member under 18, it may be turned on or off at the sole discretion of the Family Organizer:
Krazy Kat,
As noted, "For any member under 18, it may be turned on or off at the sole discretion of the Family Organizer."
If you feel the defaults are not sufficiently restrictive, or that the set-up message was not clear, you can provide feedback to Apple:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
If you are the family organiser then you can decide who is invited to be, and who remains, part of the family group. For under 18s you can enable 'ask to buy', and as long as you don't turn that 'off' after they turn 18 then it will continue to be 'on' and you will have to approve their purchases.
If you turn it off after they turn 18, or you invite somebody over 18 to join the family, then you are agreeing to take responsibility for any purchases that they make which isn't covered by any balance that they have on their own account. If they abuse that trust then remove them from the family - and don't invite people to join who don't trust not to abuse it.
While I love my wife, she is both from another country and pretty much financially dependent on me. If she has a credit card in her possession, she will buy things, more or less without thinking about any financial consequence. Now that I have put her on my family plan to share photos with her, I promise that her ability to buy things on my card in a more or less transparent way is going to come back to bite both of us in a big way. I'm crossing my fingers for now.
Please consider revising this policy so that the person who owns the credit card can control who can use it. Thanks.
How to set up ask to buy for adult accounts?
