How to prevent kids from making in-app purchases on Android

One grand thing regarding modern Android gadgets is the breathtaking gaming capabilities, and if you are a parent you will know just how splendid it is to keep a kid busy playing Angry Birds on your phone or tablet as you drive them up and down the walkway in a shopping cart.

However one of the completely un-awesome things is learning they have charged a few in-app purchases to your credit card.

One little well-known aspect of the Play Store app is the capability to add an additional level of protection in the form of a PIN. It is pretty clear-cut.

The process outlined below does not wholly render inoperative in-app purchases; on the other hand it makes them have need of a password. This will stop you from by mistake purchasing an app, and it keeps other individuals who make use of your tablet from making those acquisitions (even though they would like the app that is offered). Despite the fact that this is not an ideal answer, it does work.

Set up password prerequisites for in-app purchases

Open Google Play Store on your phone or tablet

Select the menu button and choose Settings from the choices

Ticking on “Set or change PIN” permits you to key in a 4 number numeric PIN.

Obviously, you get an opportunity to verify your PIN (please do not fail to remember it).

Now you can tick on “Use PIN for purchases”.

Here is one of the more costly apps on the Play Store.  However then if you take a look at the lead image of this article it in fact pales close to the $134.99 in-game gem acquisition.

Once you run through the purchase procedure, once you hit Accept and Buy, you will obtain the PIN dialogue. This evidently holds for in-app kind purchases in addition to the purchase of whichever movies or magazines in the Play Store. You cannot go any further awaiting the right PIN.  All fine and protected

For sure, a smart child will attempt and change or get rid of your PIN; nevertheless, once there is a PIN set, you will be requested for that PIN to gain entry to the User Controls settings.

You can at all times do away with the PIN setting whenever you like once you unlock the setting with your PIN.

In addition of importance is the content filtering setting. I have not in fact played with it hence I cannot really tell you how resourceful it is, however presuming it works; it is a method of ensuring that the children only see apps (even complimentary ones) that are fitting to their age level.

Take care to in no way click Never Ask Me Again, since that will totally defeat the point of setting this password. If you are the single individual using this gadget, and you feel certain that you will in no way by accident make an in-app acquisition, you can turn this attribute off by disabling the Password element (in Settings, hit the secret code entry until it is deselected).