Q: Ask to Buy not preventing download on child account
Just gave our 9 year old son a brand new iPod Touch 6th Gen for Christmas, got it set up with his own Child iCloud account, and set up Family Sharing with Ask to Buy enabled by default.
The problem is, Ask to Buy doesn't seem to be working at all! Our son is able to download anything from the App store without restriction, it is not giving him a message to submit a purchase request, and I'm not getting anything on my iPhone as the Organizer.
The accounts do appear to be linked, since we each show up on each other's devices. I have disabled and re-enabled Ask to Buy on my son's account via my iPhone, he receives a notification on his iPod that Ask to Buy is enabled, but he is still able to download from the App Store without restriction.
I have logged both of us out of the App Store & iTunes on both devices, we are both updated to iOS 9performed a hard reset on his iPod, and nothing seems to make this work.
Has anyone run into this before? Any other ideas? I know I'll likely end up having to go to the Apple Store to show them what's going on, but thought I'd ask here since everything's closed today (Christmas day).
Thanks!
Posted on Dec 25, 2015 8:09 AM