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lkrupp said:

Apple should consider making a child sized Apple Watch, one that just tells time and lets the kid be tracked. A KidTag so to speak. No?

Xed said:

mknelson said:

Why is he complaining about Apple and not the game developer?

I have one freemium game I play fairly regularly - I've accumulated quite a bit of in game currency just by "getting good" - I haven't paid them a penny. I just did the math. over $2000 if I had paid for it? How can I turn that in?!

I'm unfortunately addicted to one such game. They always trying to get you to pay for day, week, month, and year access to the game without ads, and for countless varieties of boosters. The level of complexity in their in-app sales options are impressive. I've never paid nor never will pay for a single one, but I do suffer with ads after every round.

The wife plays the game, too, and she lets the nieces and nephews use her iPhone when they're in town so the first thing I did was disable in-app purchases, switch the complex passcode for the device to a basic PIN for their use, and then logoff of Media & Purchases so they can't even circumvent by re-enabling the in-app purchases in Screen Time, since it and Settings still can't be password protected, which is the only issue I have with Apple.

Now I just have her bring an old iPad which they can use that doesn't have anything logged in and one of us can manually install a game if they want it, but also leave in-app purchased disabled—for all devices—since it's not something that ever really gets used in my house and only takes a few clicks if I ever do need to enable it.

I understand that my efforts are probably more intense than others, but even the minimum level of proactive measures this will never happen.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304#prevent-purchases


PS: Another solution is subscribing to Apple Arcade which are all ad-free.