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iOS 4.3 Requires Password Reentry for In App Purchases

lol, this is funny as my daughter bought 10$ worth of inapps after I did my updates, in the talking giraffe game.

*TodVader shakes fist in the air at the system!

Good idea anyway :)
 
This makes a lot of sense after reading about that smurf village app. Greedy and sleezy dev tactics, fooling kids who are to young to know any better into buying $99 packages of "smurfberries"
 
Honestly, I've never made an in-app purchase on either my iPad or iPhone...so I assumed it always did this.

You mean if I have an app that has purchases inside of it, on the old iOS if I clicked something to buy, it just automagically bought it without me putting in a password? :eek:
 
When I was young me and my brother ran up a $750 long distance bill one month calling bbses all over the country.

Boy did we get in trouble.
 
Come to think of it, I wish they'd do this for the Mac app store. It's amazing how many times I've clicked on the wrong button and attempted to buy a $20 item, when all I meant to do was click on it to read more about it. I haven't accidentally bought anything yet, but it's coming...
 
Ugh

Call me a jerk if you like, but I get really tired of having to jump through extra hoops because other people decided to have kids. It happens everywhere but this is just a small (and irritating) example.

Make it an option for us grown ups so we can turn it off. We can store our iTunes Store passwords on our computers and it's not like kids don't use those.
 
bossxii said:
This needs to be in PARENTAL CONTROLS, not for everyone. What a PITA... seriously if you can't monitor your own child that's your fault not mine, yet because people shove a gadget in their kids hands to baby sit em I now get to reenter my PW?

Parents need to pull their head out of their own @$# and pay attention. Stop blaming blaming APPLE for your dumbass ignoring what your kids are doing.

Unbelievable!!

/rant
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I agree with this, too. I don't need this option on my own iPhone.
 
This is stupid. I don't have kids and I don't plan to have any.
 
yea... I like it, on the iOS devices my kids play with, (old iPhone, iPad. I'm annoyed with it on my own devices they do not play with, (iPhone4.)

I'm not sure it would be better to make it an option though. If not done right it would make it inconstant, confusing, and even easier to accident buy stuff.
 
KALLT said:
It appears reasonable to me, although it's a shame that iPhones and iPhone 3Gs won't gain that protection.
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This is a very good move and surprised that it wasn't done initially. I'm sure the now infamous "smurf-berries" in-app purchase that had toddlers run up bills in the hundreds of dollars at times had something to do with this.

Technology has now caught up to, "Mommy, can you buy this for me?" in the mobile space.

I would like to see it go further will a full parental controls suite for family distributed iPhone's. Sure that is a current point of debate for iOS 5.
 
baleensavage said:
This sentence irks me as a parent. Apple's parental controls in both the OS and iOS have always been buggy and poorly implemented. iOS's parental controls in particular are missing a huge number of features that would make them "industry-leading."
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What competitive phone or tablet has better parental controls included? I'm not disputing they could be improved- but I'm not aware of any phones/tablets that have better or more granular parental controls out of the box. In other words, I think the statement "industry-leading" is accurate, but there's so much more that they could do.
 
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toddybody said:
Oh Jeeze! Are you kidding me? Is there going to be an article for EVERY iOS 4.3 change? LMFAO this is a joke. :mad:
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And you went to the effort of posting about it? Here's a suggestion... Skim past it and read the article that does interest you.
I'm sick of all this high horse BS by some readers
 
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I give my daughter iTunes gift cards. She can only spend up to the credit on the account we share. If she goes over then no more gift cards for a while.

Too bad more parents cannot manage the situation and have to rely on others to build it into the software.
 
So I don't have children and my security measures mean no-one has access to my MBP. Why isn't there a way out of this for people like me? :confused:
 
dgree03 said:
He I was thinking it was a bug, but it is a feature. Its so freaking annoying!

They even require password input on free apps!? Umm why?
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It is an annoyance, I agree. Looks like I'll just stay with 4.2 and leave my jailbreak intact. Makes sense for Apple to go this route given the reaction parents have when their kids misuse their smartphone. It'd have been a matter of time before the Government came in to "protect" parents from having to be, well parents. In that light it's a good move on their part, very PC. End of the day though I can monitor my kids just fine without the intervention, thanks.
 
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