Son and app's

Enchantica

You NEED to not allow your son to have the password to make app or in-app purchases. Change the password. I have seen someone with a much bigger charge being made by their child. Luckily she got the money back. Try this ASAP if you want to try to get the money back, explain it was an accidental purchase by a child. Often if it's a one off they give you the money back. http://www.knowyourmobile.com/products/7746/how-get-refund-itunes-app-store

Tenyearstogo

If I need to pay for an in app purchase, I enter my credit card details, then I delete them.

No card details, no accidental purchases.

Pollycat

babywillow wrote: »

Just a rant! Trusted my 8yr old on the new iPad and today I get invoice emails from apple totalling £40.00! So annoyed with myself and him grrrrrr.
Won't happen again!

Nice to see a post on this subject from someone who isn't blaming someone else, just the 2 people at fault. :T

OP, at least you've learned a not-very-expensive lesson.

mrcow

Mine did the same - we hadn't entered the password at all (i.e. that week - let alone 15 minutes) and it still accepted the purchase.

Apple accepted that it was a glitch and fully refunded the money.

When I looked at what had been purchased and how, it was worded really badly (deliberately?) and I'm not surprised my child didn't link it with an actual real-life purchase.

We've now turned off the ability for ANY in-app purchases as the issue with the password could obviously happen again.

It was a relief that they refunded but it was sobering, we thought we'd done all the right things at the time and still weren't vigilant enough.

peachyprice

babywillow wrote: »

Totally disagree they use them at school!

I think there's a vast difference between an 8yo them using them at school to play educational games under restricted circumstances and letting them loose to play and buy whatever they want.

At 8yo they're not necessarily going to be savvy enough to make the connection between carefully worded invitation to buy extras for their games using 'game bucks' and real money coming out of mummy and daddy's bank account.

securityguy

babywillow wrote: »

Totally disagree they use them at school!

I'd be looking for a better school that doesn't waste money on short-lived, worthless gimmicks. The vast majority of the use of IT in schools, particularly shiny-shiny IT in primary schools, looks superficially impressive to parents who are easily impressed, but has very little to do with actual learning (note the "Interactive Smart Boards", sitting idle in a classroom near you, somewhere near a large rack of broken Laptops).

It's interesting how teachers, and parents, who would object strongly to rote learning and endless drill on a blackboard suddenly become in favour of it when it's dressed up with some silicon, and how "chalk and talk" is frowned on by Ofsted while "read the bullet points off a PowerPoint presentation" is apparently OK.

babywillow

Enchantica wrote: »

You NEED to not allow your son to have the password to make app or in-app purchases. Change the password. I have seen someone with a much bigger charge being made by their child. Luckily she got the money back. Try this ASAP if you want to try to get the money back, explain it was an accidental purchase by a child. Often if it's a one off they give you the money back. http://www.knowyourmobile.com/products/7746/how-get-refund-itunes-app-store

Thank you emailed them and the are refunding full amount!

balletshoes

I dont have any of my card details logged with apple. we use itunes vouchers in small amounts instead.

notanewuser

securityguy wrote: »

I'd be looking for a better school that doesn't waste money on short-lived, worthless gimmicks. The vast majority of the use of IT in schools, particularly shiny-shiny IT in primary schools, looks superficially impressive to parents who are easily impressed, but has very little to do with actual learning (note the "Interactive Smart Boards", sitting idle in a classroom near you, somewhere near a large rack of broken Laptops).

It's interesting how teachers, and parents, who would object strongly to rote learning and endless drill on a blackboard suddenly become in favour of it when it's dressed up with some silicon, and how "chalk and talk" is frowned on by Ofsted while "read the bullet points off a PowerPoint presentation" is apparently OK.

Are you my father-in-law? He mocked my DH for using computers at school in the 80s. DH now earns well over £100k per year in IT - far more than his father ever earned as an engineer.

[Deleted User]

Go into Settings -> General -> Restrictions

Set a restriction password up, and you can now do the following:
Disable in-app purchases
Remove the '15 minute window' for password re-entry

Then, go change the password

I would say an iPad is perfectly fine for an 8 year old. I was using a BBC micro by the age of 8.. not sure what's wrong with using an iPad at nearly any age really