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?
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?!!
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/
Thanks for the quick reply, though the fact of having an adult with maybe light difficulties, is not contemplated onthe actual family sharing scheme. Thanks
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.
Please consider revising this policy so that the person who owns the credit card can control who can use it.
I've already pointed out that these are user-to-user forums, if you want to leave feedback to Apple use the feedback link that I gave above
I agree this is stupid. I have both children with own apple IDs so there's no point to create a separate child only Apple ID but it shows them as an adult. The organizer should have control adult or not. This is a flaw.
Apple isn't stupid. Family sharing is a trap!!!!!
This feature is a trap
... 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.
EXACTLY!!! ***??
Apple please help to update this feature.
These are user-to-user forums, Apple are not here - if you want to leave feedback to Apple about it use the feedback link posted above
How to set up ask to buy for adult accounts?
