Q: How do I shut down family sharing?
I need to shut down family sharing as my son is buying stuff on my credit card. The Ask to Buy doesn't kick in.
iPhone 5
Posted on Apr 20, 2015 9:42 AM
It wasn't clear in your update what you meant by letting him use his own account. As was already mentioned, a child under 13 has to belong to a family share group. If you're in a share group there is no other way to pay for purchases than to use the main account holder's payment method. You might have meant that you'd be comfortable setting up another account that doesn't comply with the AppleID terms and conditions, but if you did that he wouldn't be able to access the things he'd already purchased. Contact Apple directly about the setting that doesn't appear to be working. Though have you tested the setting out by doing a purchase to rule out the chance you might have accidentally approved his purchase? If you weren't expecting to see the prompt, you might have just accepted it.
Posted on Apr 23, 2015 12:12 PM