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Turn Off In-App Purchasing On Your iPhone To Keep Your Kids From Smurfing You Into The Poor House

Turn Off In-App Purchasing On Your iPhone To Keep Your Kids From Smurfing You Into The Poor House

By Chris Morran May 3, 2011

In the wake of that 8-year-old who racked up $1,400 in Smurfs Village purchases on her parents’ iPad, Apple recently instituted a policy that requires a user’s App Store password for making in-app purchases. But we’ve gotten some e-mails from parents who want to be able to share that password with their kids — for the purposes of downloading free content — while still preventing their children from amassing millions of useless Smurf berries. [More]

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