Q: Ask to Buy
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Sep 12, 2016 8:50 AMby Anamarie_PR,Thanks. But my question is if I can use the Ask to Buy option for all members in my family sharing, regardless their age, or if there is another option to control purchases. As I read this function is only available to children and users under 18... Maybe I wasn't clear in my question.
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Sep 12, 2016 8:59 AMby Limnos,As I read this function is only available to children and users under 18...
Correct, you can only set it for somebody under 18. Presumably a certain level of fiscal trust is required among adults as might be anticipated in a family. For example, this might deter a college dorm from deciding they were "family" and sharing all their media with each other.
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Sep 12, 2016 8:01 PMby LACAllen,To be fair... it's not the setting preventing you from sharing.
It's some level of concern you have for the members of your family you want to share with.
As a business, Apple has to have some reasonable limits to a sharing plan. All providers of online content have similar measures. Apple is providing you a tangible benefit by allowing sharing of content. The requirement is that a single person provides Apple an assured method of payment for any purchase activity by the family members.
How is that not reasonable?
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Sep 14, 2016 7:47 AMby Limnos,LACAllen wrote:
To be fair... it's not the setting preventing you from sharing.
It's some level of concern you have for the members of your family you want to share with.
Which in turn also limits the boundaries of "family" to close relationship people whom you trust with financial information. Ask To Buy can left set to "on" for family members older than 18 if they age out of it but cannot be reverted. For most standard families this system works because if a child remains at home for a few extra years they can still be under Ask To Buy yet they can also be outside the immediate family fiscal circle (i.e. , not given access to the family credit card) as part of weaning to independence. Where it does not work is if a group loose friends temporarily rent a house together and decide to share media, but this is likely exactly the scenario the media distributors wish to prevent. Nor does it work if people split up, but then they are no longer part of an immediate family anyway.
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Sep 14, 2016 7:58 AMby LACAllen,Which in turn also limits the boundaries of "family" to close relationship people whom you trust with financial information.
Yes.
Where it does not work is if a group loose friends temporarily rent a house together and decide to share media, but this is likely exactly the scenario the media distributors wish to prevent. Nor does it work if people split up, but then they are no longer part of an immediate family anyway.
Yes again.
