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Allyson Kazmucha
If you live in a household where you need to monitor and control iTunes and App Store purchases that children are making, Family Sharing lets you do just that on any device that's running iOS 8 or higher. Once you've got it set up, you can even designate what adults in the group can make purchasing decisions for younger children.
How to assign someone as a parent or guardian with Family Sharing in iOS 8
Note that in order to assign someone as a parent or guardian, you'll need to be the family organizer, in other words, the person that set up the Family Sharing group.
- Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Tap on iCloud.
- Tap on Family.
- Tap on the person's name that you'd like to assign as a parent or guardian.
- Turn On the option for Parent/Guardian.
That's it. That person will now receive purchase requests from any children in your Family Sharing group. That means that if one person is busy and can't approve a request, the other parent can. You'll still only need one person to approve a request though, not both.
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