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Nov 12, 2015 12:58 AM in response to frueyby Brett L,★HelpfulGreetings fruey,
My understanding is that you are currently administering your son's Family Sharing membership, which includes Ask to Buy, from your company iPhone, this being your only other Apple device. Since you are having to return the iPhone, you want to know what you can do to continue to the administration of your son's account. Is that correct?
Ask to Buy requests must be received by an Apple device, either an iOS device such as your iPhone or an iPad or iPod touch running iOS 8 or later, or a Macintosh computer, running Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or later. See this article - Request and make purchases with Ask to Buy.
If you have no other Apple devices capable of administering the feature, you can designate another family member who does have such a device as the approver. See the section of the above article titled Designate another approver (parent/guardian).
You can also turn off the Ask to Buy feature for your son. Use the steps in the above article in the section titled Turn on Ask to Buy but turn it off instead of on.
The other alternative would be to obtain an Apple device that you can use to administer Ask to Buy.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Be well.
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Nov 12, 2015 1:04 AM in response to Brett Lby fruey,Hi Brett
You understood my situation perfectly and your answer provides a number of solutions. Thankyou for taking time.
Since I do not have any other Apple devices, and neither do any of my close-by family, I am almost obliged to obtain (at cost) another Apple device, based on your complete answer. I feared as much.
Why? Because switching off Ask to Buy will mean my son can then just (perhaps by accident) buy anything on my credit card, with no means for me to stop it. If I leave Ask to Buy on I can at least approve on my son's iPad but this is a bit of a constraint. I think that's the only way to go.
I'm sure I was stupid to use a professional device for personal usage like this, but I can imagine a number of contexts where losing a second device due to damage, breakage or theft could leave someone else in a similar situation. Family sharing doesn't quite cover everything properly, it seems. I expect this ties in with a sort of Apple world view where you get married to Apple when you buy your first device and everyone in your family should also buy Apple.
Thanks for your help. Perhaps my new employer will provide a Mac or iPhone and I can workaround my personal case, using Ask to Buy on my son's iPad only in the meantime.
Best regards
-Simon (aka fruey)
