How to protect yourself from unexpected expenses for in-app purchases

News media periodically surprised by interesting stories about how another child easier pockets of their parents for a few thousand dollars by playing another "free" game on your smartphone or tablet. Today we want to talk about how to protect the child is not quite conscious of the risk of being the culprit redistribution of family budget for the coming months. We will not break the veils and talking about something difficult. Restrict access to in-app purchase is pretty simple, and on Android, and iOS, but some just do not do it, hoping that their child will certainly not do such stupid things, like buying a steep black dragon in the game just $49.99.

A bit of in-app purchases

An application that is free, but requires the purchase within, commonly called «freemium». That is, it seemed to be free, but in practice the process of interaction with the user's applications will periodically ask money "to reveal all the charms of the gameplay" or "to get the maximum from ekspiriensa work with the application." Kings of divorces began the game, and in particular children's games. Of course, to make a children's naivety and lack of understanding of the value of money is quite despicable, but it is a business.

The problem is that parents may not be aware of the availability of in-app purchase in the next game, which is given at the mercy of their child. Believe app purchases waiting for the user is in critical moments, when there is no entirely to winning a little bit, and here it is - a gift from the developer, with it you definitely will pass the level, on which for so long puffed and just $4.99. An adult can help it, but the child presses without even thinking.

iOS and Android use the standard way to restrict access to in-app purchases. As protection is a PIN-code that you must enter dyal confirmation of purchase. It is convenient and fast.

iOS

To enable PIN-code in iOS, you must go to "Settings" system. Here, we go to the item "Main."

We need the section "Restrictions".

The system prompts to create a password for the restrictions, then it is necessary to find in the list, select "Built-in purchase" and ban them if necessary.

As for shopping now requires a password, and a child can grab the mobile device as soon as you enter the password, you must change the password request standard rate for purchases from 15 minutes at each new postoyannno buying.

Android

To enable PIN-code in Android, you must go to Google Play Settings.

We find the option to create a password for purchases, and then create a password itself.

It remains to enable the option "Use PIN for purchases."

That's all.