So I've enabled Family Sharing on my Mac now that Yosemite is installed, as the Family Organiser, so that another person can use their iPad to make purchases with my card.
However, it doesn't work, at all: on the iPad, when making a purchase, we are greeted with a strange screen that says "ask the Family Organizer to enter their details" with some empty fields where we can't enter anything, then is asks for a "Security Code" which I have no idea what it is. I eventually assumed that it's the 3 digit code on the back of the card and entered that, after which is simply says "Do you still want to purchase the item?" (it says that no matter what I enter as the 'security code') We click "Yes" and the same screen comes back up again, and this goes on forever in a loop, and no purchase is ever made.
Then I thought I'll leave that, and instead I'll just download some apps to the iPad that I've purchased some time ago on my own account. So I go to the iPad and go to both the App Store and the iTunes store to the Purchased tab, then choose my name on the top left to see my supposedly shared stuff, only to find "there are no purchased items" which is not true, as I have dozens of apps and music that I've purchased and it's not showing up.
What the hell? How is this supposed to work? Am I missing a step somewhere?
However, it doesn't work, at all: on the iPad, when making a purchase, we are greeted with a strange screen that says "ask the Family Organizer to enter their details" with some empty fields where we can't enter anything, then is asks for a "Security Code" which I have no idea what it is. I eventually assumed that it's the 3 digit code on the back of the card and entered that, after which is simply says "Do you still want to purchase the item?" (it says that no matter what I enter as the 'security code') We click "Yes" and the same screen comes back up again, and this goes on forever in a loop, and no purchase is ever made.
Then I thought I'll leave that, and instead I'll just download some apps to the iPad that I've purchased some time ago on my own account. So I go to the iPad and go to both the App Store and the iTunes store to the Purchased tab, then choose my name on the top left to see my supposedly shared stuff, only to find "there are no purchased items" which is not true, as I have dozens of apps and music that I've purchased and it's not showing up.
What the hell? How is this supposed to work? Am I missing a step somewhere?
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