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It’s default on kids accounts on iOS. This sounds more like she let her kid use her own iPad on her own account, not her kids account. Also when you use the Ap

It’s default on kids accounts on iOS. This sounds more like she let her kid use her own iPad on her own account, not her kids account. Also when you use the App Store the first time on a fresh device it asks if you want to use a password (or Face ID etc) on each purchase, where she chose not to. I’ve recently set up an iPad for my kid and any purchase needs a password entered into her device then also gets sent for manual approval to our phones, and my wife and I have password/face protection for every purchase on the App Store including free apps. I despise the predatory methods used by apps to tempt kids into IAPs but also in this case the mum specifically chose to disable passwords on purchased and let her kid use her iPad with her adult account without monitoring her.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago
> It’s default on kids accounts on iOS. This sounds more like she let her kid use her own iPad on her own account, not her kids account Given that iPads are expensive and don’t support multiple accounts, this doesn’t seem so unreasonable.
- londons_explore 6y ago
  It's time iOS supported accounts on every device. Then devices needent be so locked to a person. "Oh, the battery is dead on your iPhone? Log into mine for the day".
microtherion 6y ago
You really have to go out of your way to even set up an iDevice without any passcode protection in the first place, and you have to go out of your way to set it up without any protection for app store purchases, so this is a customer who went through multiple opt-in screens to let anybody with physical access to the device buy anything on the app store they wanted, and then handed off the device to their kid... I hate predatory apps as much as the next person, and there is a lot of garbage out there, but at some point, the customer also bears responsibility for their actions.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago

> It’s default on kids accounts on iOS. This sounds more like she let her kid use her own iPad on her own account, not her kids account Given that iPads are expensive and don’t support multiple accounts, this doesn’t seem so unreasonable.

londons_explore 6y ago
It's time iOS supported accounts on every device. Then devices needent be so locked to a person. "Oh, the battery is dead on your iPhone? Log into mine for the day".

microtherion 6y ago

You really have to go out of your way to even set up an iDevice without any passcode protection in the first place, and you have to go out of your way to set it up without any protection for app store purchases, so this is a customer who went through multiple opt-in screens to let anybody with physical access to the device buy anything on the app store they wanted, and then handed off the device to their kid... I hate predatory apps as much as the next person, and there is a lot of garbage out there, but at some point, the customer also bears responsibility for their actions.