Oh my god. Yes. We have exactly two apple devices, my spouse's ipad and now our daughter's, and getting hers set up was MISERABLE. We didn't know anything about setting up kids accounts and it's beyond unintuitive. And then half the parental locks i put in place, I immediately had to undo because downloading games was a nightmare. But good luck finding those settings again. Overall it's better than the damn fire tablet we replaced but MAN.
Same here! We're an Android phone household, but the kids have ipads. I have to keep an elderly ipad around solely to approve their app install requests. The only other option is an extremely annoying 2FA experience that fundamentally assumes I have an apple device of my own.
And sometimes their app requests just stop showing up on my ipad for approval. But I've discovered a secret:
If you aren't getting kids' app approval requests on your adult Apple device, rename the adult's device. It doesn't matter what you rename it to, just the act of renaming somehow kickstarts the approvals connection and the requests will flow again. It's been this way on mine for years, I have to change the device name every few months.
Setting up iPads with parental controls was my own personal Christmas hell. Especially when those are the only Apple devices we have in the home.
Ouch. Hey, please write in with your experience? I want to go deeper on this.
Oh my god. Yes. We have exactly two apple devices, my spouse's ipad and now our daughter's, and getting hers set up was MISERABLE. We didn't know anything about setting up kids accounts and it's beyond unintuitive. And then half the parental locks i put in place, I immediately had to undo because downloading games was a nightmare. But good luck finding those settings again. Overall it's better than the damn fire tablet we replaced but MAN.
Same here! We're an Android phone household, but the kids have ipads. I have to keep an elderly ipad around solely to approve their app install requests. The only other option is an extremely annoying 2FA experience that fundamentally assumes I have an apple device of my own.
And sometimes their app requests just stop showing up on my ipad for approval. But I've discovered a secret:
If you aren't getting kids' app approval requests on your adult Apple device, rename the adult's device. It doesn't matter what you rename it to, just the act of renaming somehow kickstarts the approvals connection and the requests will flow again. It's been this way on mine for years, I have to change the device name every few months.