I just joined Apple Music Family subscription and have added two of my adult children and my brother to the Family Sharing in iCloud. How can I make it so they cannot make purchases on my credit card?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
You can't make sure they can't make purchases on your card, but you can ask them to avoid doing so by keeping a credit balance on their own accounts with iTunes gift vouchers.
It doesn't make sense that others in the family (siblings and adult children) can make purchases on my credit card in my account as the Family organizer. Certainly there's a way to prohibit the members from making purchases without my approval.
No there isn't, there is no way to prohibit an adult you have invited from making a purchase on your card.
You don't say what you mean by an adult child, an adult is someone over 18, you can restrict those under 18, you can also keep a restriction on someone turning 18, but you can't start a restriction on someone already over 18.
Thanks for your response. It still doesn't make sense to me why the designers of Apple Music would allow a family member to use without permission the organizer's credit card for purchases without approval of the organizer regardless of the age of the member.
I understand your point but it isn't without permission, you give your permission by inviting them.
Good point, but when I first signed up for the Family plan in Apple Music, I thought I was inviting my adult children and my siblings to share in the Apple Music offerings and also to share in my previous app and music purchases in iTunes, not to share my credit card. That's a very different kind of sharing in my mind.
Completely agree with you. I am sharing photos with my mother and sister who are 150 miles away. It seems she purchased an APP and this has been charged to my account and there is no way from stopping this from happening again. In fact it seems that the only way of stopping it is to remove her from sharing, What a shame this would be.
Personally
I think you are stretching the notion (in this respect) of family to fit a wallet rather than a household.
The following is from this Apple document: Family Sharing - Apple Support
Family Sharing makes it easy for up to six people in your family to share each other’s iTunes, iBooks, and App Store purchases without sharing accounts. Pay for family purchases with the same credit card and approve kids’ spending right from a parent’s device. And share photos, a family calendar, and more to help keep everyone connected.
Didn't you get a notification of the pending purchases by your kids and an opportunity to deny the purchase? Or did you now turn on the Ask to Buy feature: Request and make purchases with Ask to Buy - Apple Support. You can probably turn it on now and control future purchases.
You should review this Apple document also: Set up Family Sharing - Apple Support
APPLE needs to CHANGE THIS. Yes, we understand we INVITED THEM to family sharing, and the idea is to share apps and pics and the like. But it needs to STOP THERE if adult family members want to PURCHASE their own pay apps and tunes. There needs to be a setting by the family share admin to NOT ALLOW PURCHASES to my APPLE ID CREDIT CARD. Don't keep giving technically correct answers on the current state of programming. FIX THE PROGRAMMING.
Don't yell at us. We're only users like yourself. There are no Apple reps here. To post your complaints or requests for features give feedback via https://www.apple.com/feedback/.
Yah sorry, I am so frustrated with Apple's seeming black hole of customer support...and I assumed a "level 10" forum admin has some pull with getting enhancements and fixes out of Apple. I stand corrected, sorry to vent to you.
With Family sharing, I don't want others in the family making purchases on my credit card.
