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  • Doctor ignores default iOS parental controls, child racks up $1,800 in in-app purchases

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    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.

    You can password protect Screen Time, even with a different password than the unlock one. That's how I have our devices setup.
    (edited for incorrect spelling)
    ronngregoriusmwatto_cobra

  • Windows on Apple Silicon is up to Microsoft, says Craig Federighi

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    Sounds to me like there will be no new Intel Macs going forward...
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  • Former Samsung Pay heads launch new iPhone-compatible mobile payment startup

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    I'm not seeing this as solving any problems.
    As a former business owner, I know that the magstrip tech is really old, and there was a law passed that makes it the shop's responsibility if a customer pays with a forged card using the magstrip. This is to encourage the use of NFC & chip. The fact that the magstrip is being phased out as someone mentioned above, and this device doesn't have a chip to read, makes this not a solution, but one more thing that will be unused in a few years. A lot of vendors have upgraded their terminals to contactless due to covid, that and the law about magstrips makes it unlikely it will stay around for much longer. Already a store has disabled the magstrip where I live, chip or NFC only. 

    Why carry something when it's duplicate tech (NFC) that I can have built into my phone? That and the fact this is a Kickstarter/Indiegogo campaign makes this a non-starter for me.
    tokyojimuGeorgeBMacDancingMonkeyswatto_cobra

  • Online Apple Store adds dedicated Apple Card payment option

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    You will get 3% if you use the Apple Card, whether you use the card number or Apple Pay. I've done this.
    mbenz1962

  • How to get an old macOS installer from Apple

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    macgui said:
    Does anyone know of a link for a 10.9.5 (Mavericks) installer? I tried the Purchased tab and found Mavericks, but it shows Installed and I can't download it again.

    As noted in the article, the Installers I've saved are now dead. If I go to Apple Support and search for Mavericks, all I get are links to update files and not the OS itself. I have 2029 installers for other OSs I might need, but I need one for Mavericks.
    If you are reinstalling the OS, use terminal to set the date to before Oct 24, 2019 and your old installers will work just fine. Mac OS X will update to the correct date after booting.

    date 0712122318

    Which would set the system date to July 12 2018 at 12:23pm
    mike fix