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But even apps like Amazon’s mobile app, where a child could order anything with a few taps, don’t require any sort of confirmation. The only apps that generally have extra protection are financial and banking apps, which usually require additional authentication when launched. As seen above, kids can buy things easily, but they could also, just by randomly tapping, send messages, forward emails, or interact in any app on the device. Parents may think it’s a good idea to hand their device to a child to keep them distracted, but this is dangerous. I’ve long felt that iOS/iPadOS needs multiple user accounts, and this situation, where a child may just tap on anything, with expensive consequences, is a good example why this could be useful. Unlike Macs, iPhones and iPads don’t allow you to set up accounts for multiple users. In this article, I’m going to explain how you can prevent your kids from spending all your money on your device. There are many ways that children could make purchases – either intentionally or unintentionally – on an iPhone or iPad. It turned out that he had been tapping images in the UberEats app, and, since there was no password or passcode required to approve purchases, there was nothing to prevent the child from doing this. The child didn’t do this intentionally he was just tapping things, as children do on portable devices. How To How to Keep Kids from Making Purchases on Your iPhone or iPadĪ story grabbed my attention recently: a father in Sydney, Australia, gave his phone to his four-year-old, to keep him occupied, and was surprised to later find that the child had ordered $1,139 of gelato and cakes which was sent to the father’s workplace.