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This is also available in the US, I enabled this on my kid's dedicated iPad linked to a family/child Apple account. There's no real downside, and it is entirely

This is also available in the US, I enabled this on my kid's dedicated iPad linked to a family/child Apple account. There's no real downside, and it is entirely optional. I suspect some replies are confusing this with iCloud photo scanning (for e.g. CP), whereas this is a different feature entirely, they just happen to have been announced at the same time which caused a lot of people to treat them as a monolith. See: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ The biggest problem with Apple's family features right now is that it literally costs more to use. If you share a parent account with a child (or multiple), all IAPs are also shared, whereas if you create a child Apple account app purchases are correctly shared (and some Apple subscriptions) but IAPs are not, resulting in re-buys for every connected device. There is, in theory, some IAPs that share through family sharing, but they're very rare and there's no way to determine which are what before you buy.

buildbot 5y ago
Honestly as it is on device, it would be quite useful for people who receive unsolicited/unwanted photos of a sexual nature as well. It is a cool feature, where as the reporting hashes remotely is...not IAPs not being shared kinda makes sense from the perspective of the individual devs actually? The app is shared "purchased software", the account within the app probably is not.
- Someone1234 5y ago
  I can see why devs don't check the IAP-share-for-family box, but ultimately the result is that fewer people are using child-specific accounts and the safety benefits as a direct result. I understand that devs have to make a living, but how many repeat sales do they expect to make for the same family? Regardless, it would be nice if the Apple app store told you if an IAP is shared or not within a family, it is important information for making purchasing decisions.

buildbot 5y ago

Honestly as it is on device, it would be quite useful for people who receive unsolicited/unwanted photos of a sexual nature as well. It is a cool feature, where as the reporting hashes remotely is...not IAPs not being shared kinda makes sense from the perspective of the individual devs actually? The app is shared "purchased software", the account within the app probably is not.

Someone1234 5y ago
I can see why devs don't check the IAP-share-for-family box, but ultimately the result is that fewer people are using child-specific accounts and the safety benefits as a direct result. I understand that devs have to make a living, but how many repeat sales do they expect to make for the same family? Regardless, it would be nice if the Apple app store told you if an IAP is shared or not within a family, it is important information for making purchasing decisions.