Some applications offer us the possibility of obtaining some improvement with purchases within the application. They are known as integrated purchases or in-app purchases and, like everything else, they have their good points and their bad points. As something positive we can give an example that we can acquire content updated applications. As a negative point, and this is the majority, to say that with these purchases we only acquire the possibility of playing waiting less time, to eliminate advertising or, returning to games, to improve our character in order to advance. The bad thing in these cases is not the purchase itself, but the reason why they are added.
If we are adults and we know what we are doing, there is no problem but, if we leave our device to a child, it is likely that we will receive charges on our credit card for purchases that we thought we had not made. Although Apple could respond well and "forgive" the debt (there have been cases), the best thing is be cautious and disable in-app purchases. To do this, we will do the following:
How to disable in-app purchases on iOS
- We go to Settings / General / Restrictions.
- We activate the restrictions and enter a code (if we had not done it before) twice, once to configure it and once to confirm it.
- Once the restrictions are activated, we scroll down and deactivate Integrated Purchases.
If you usually leave your iOS device to children, You should activate this type of protection. By deactivating integrated purchases we are making sure that the smallest of the family do not buy improvement packages in their favorite games that will then be charged to our credit card. You might be surprised by the ability of these little ones to learn even by looking at what we write.
If we put the key in front of them, they are likely to learn it and use it to play better. If we deactivate integrated purchases we have no danger that they "lose their finger" and do some "mischief."
You are absolutely right, my daughter bought a $ 2 app just because she saw the app funny.
From time to time there is a post of great interest like this and being that unfortunately the IAP method is the one that is getting the most among the creators of apps, this button should be activated by all of us when we are making the initial configurations of the iOS device in question.
What most people do not know is that when you buy something under this modality as the post says you are paying for nothing, this what it means is that the content to which you are going to have access is already on your device when you downloaded the application , The only thing you do when paying is to unlock it, in other words if you dedicate yourself to downloading free applications that use the IAP method and do not go through the box later you are underusing the capacity of your device because you are taking over with applications that you use half but that they actually have the full size, is the other great but of this sales method, the first obviously is the bleeding they have become.
The fact that there are universal applications has its advantage but against it has the size, it happened to all of us when the applications adapted to the retina screen began to appear and if we wanted to have the latest features we should obviously download the latest version when the increase in size it was basically because of the screen that not everyone needed, this is something similar.
thanks Bro you saved me hehehe !!!! XD