Approve what kids purchase with Ask to Buy

With Ask to Buy, you tin can requite kids the freedom to make their ain choices while still controlling their spending.

How Inquire to Buy works

A parent's iPhone shows a request that a child made on her own iPhone.

With Inquire to Buy, when kids want to buy or download a new detail, they ship a request to the family organizer. The family organizer can use their own device to corroborate or pass up the request. For case, if a child wants to buy an app, the family organizer tin can see the app and decide whether to allow it.

If the family unit organizer approves the request and completes the purchase, the detail automatically downloads to the kid's device. If the family organizer declines the request, no purchase or download volition take identify. If a kid redownloads a purchase, downloads a shared buy, installs an update, or uses a redemption code, the family organizer won't receive a request.

Who tin can utilize Ask to Buy

Families tin use Ask to Purchase later on they set up Family Sharing. The family organizer can plough on Inquire to Buy for any family member who isn't an adult. Information technology'due south on past default for whatsoever children under 13. Y'all'll be asked to set up upward Ask to Buy when you invite anyone under eighteen to your family unit group.one

If a family unit fellow member turns 18 and the family organizer turns off Inquire to Purchase, the family organizer can't turn it on once again.

How to turn on or turn off Ask to Purchase

If yous're a parent or guardian, use your own device to turn on or plow off Enquire to Buy.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Tap your name.
  3. Tap Family Sharing.
  4. Tap Ask to Buy.
    Settings on iPhone showing Ask to Buy enabled for Marisa, Jesse, and Madi.
  5. Tap your family member'south proper noun.
  6. Use the toggle to turn on or turn off Inquire to Buy.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, and then click Family Sharing.
  2. Click Ask to Buy in the sidebar.
  3. Select or deselect the checkbox adjacent to the child'due south name.

On your Mac with macOS Mojave or before

  1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences.
  2. And so click iCloud.
  3. Click Manage Family unit and select your family member's name.
  4. Select Ask to Buy.

How to approve or decline a request

If yous're the family organizer, use your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, or Mac to approve or refuse a request.

  1. Open the notification to see the particular that your family member wants to go. Can't find your Enquire to Buy notifications?
  2. Approve or reject the purchase.
    Parent's iPhone showing a button to approve and a button to decline a request to buy a book from Apple Books.
  3. If you corroborate, sign in with your Apple ID and password to make the purchase.

What happens side by side

Subsequently the item is purchased, it's added to your child's account.2 If you turned on purchase sharing, the item is as well shared with the residual of the family group.

If y'all decline a request, your child receives a notification that you declined the request. If you dismiss the asking or don't make the purchase, the child will need to make the asking again. Requests that you decline or dismiss are deleted after 24 hours.

Where to find your Ask to Buy requests

How to choose some other approver

The family organizer can give another parent or guardian in the grouping over the age of 18 permission to manage Ask to Buy requests. Merely one adult needs to manage each purchase, and after it'south washed, the purchase is final.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Tap your proper noun.
  3. Tap Family Sharing, then tap your family member'southward name.
  4. Tap Function.
  5. Tap Parent/Guardian.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple card  > Organization Preferences, then click Family unit Sharing.
  2. Click Family Sharing in the sidebar.
  3. Click Details next to the family unit member's proper name.
  4. Click Edit, then select Parent/Guardian.

On your Mac with macOS Mojave or earlier

  1. Cull Apple menu  > Arrangement Preferences.
  2. Click iCloud, and so select your family unit member.
  3. Select Parent/Guardian.

How children or teens tin make a request with Ask to Buy

  1. To buy or download an item, tap the price or Go button. Or if you lot're using an Apple Spotter, double-click the side push button, then enter your passcode.
  2. If asked, enter your Apple ID and password.
  3. Tap Ask. If your parent or guardian is nearby, you can tap "approve it in person" and they can approve the purchase straight from your device.
    A child's iPhone shows a message that says that a request to buy this book will be sent to your parent or guardian. Below this message, there's a Cancel button and an Ask button.
  4. After your parent or guardian buys the item, it downloads to your device automatically.two

Ask to Buy doesn't apply to apps or content from schoolhouse

If a kid's account was created using Apple ID for Students, the child can use Ask to Buy for personal purchases outside of the educational institution. It won't employ to any apps or other content distributed by the school.

1. Age varies by country or region.

2. In South Korea, a child might be asked to verify their age after an Ask to Buy request is approved. Larn well-nigh age verification in South korea.

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