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Post by Anne-Marie on Aug 27, 2014 19:59:18 GMT
Our school district started a program last year that kids in certain grade levels (4th, 7th and one of the upper grades - not sure as we aren't there yet) with iPads. We are very lucky and DD (9 years old) is super excited about getting her iPad next week.
I went to a parent meeting about it last night and was told prior to them handing out the iPads that the kids have to have an Apple ID. They said you can use an already existing/parent account or create a new account for the kiddo in his/her own name.
I'm leaning towards creating a new account for DD for several reasons - 1) I can fund it with an iTunes gift card and not worry about her accidentally (or otherwise - hopefully not an issue but you never know) incurring charges to my debit card that's linked to my account; 2) I'm not sure I want her to have access to every song I've ever downloaded due to lyrics, content, etc.; and 3) I can make sure that her purchases go to her device and mine go to mine.
But I'm wondering if that's the best way to go and if creating an account for her will keep me from being able to monitor it the way I would like. I'm not the most tech-savvy person by any means so I was hoping for some advice from those that have BTDT.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 20:05:34 GMT
Set up her own. There are significant changes coming to family sharing in the next month or so. It will make all of this much easier. Here's a preview iOS 8 Family Sharing preview |
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Post by Marina on Aug 27, 2014 20:08:55 GMT
Definitely create separate accounts (also have separate user accounts on your computer). Yes you can fund them by gift cards. We do that as well. But then as they buy music and apps they can take that all with them when they go off to college one day. You can still share music and I believe more once ios 8 comes out. We already share some of our music by placing it in a public music folder on the computer.
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Post by Anne-Marie on Aug 27, 2014 20:44:25 GMT
Exactly what I needed to know - thank you both so much!
Also wondering - is there a way to get an email notification when she purchases/downloads an app?
And will Apple allow me to have more than one account linked to my email or will she need her own email account as well?
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Post by kmk1112 on Aug 27, 2014 20:48:26 GMT
There are 2 things, the apple ID and the apple store ID. The apple ID is what I think your school is talking about, having separate one of those will allow you to keep things like messages separate. Our friends share one, and mom and both dd's get everyone's texts. The girls just have ipads, but it drives everyone crazy, including mom, who keeps saying she needs to change it.
Our family has separate apple IDs, but share a store ID. We fund it with gift cards, and everyone just sort of shares. I can see where this will be problematic some day in the future when DD leaves the nest and might want her own, she'll lose a bunch of music. If you share the store ID, you would be notified. Or, you could set the store ID up with an extra email address of yours, it can be different than the apple ID.
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Post by sweetandsour on Aug 27, 2014 23:09:12 GMT
Our family of 4 each has our own Apple IDs so we can FaceTime each other.
We have a 5th email that is the App Store/iTunes Apple ID.
I choose the songs that go into their playlists. They do not have the password to purchase songs or apps.
If you want to get email notification of her iTunes purchases, I would either forward her iTunes emails directly to your email (set up a filter) or have free reign to her email.
Your kids are so lucky. My 6th grader's school has 24 computers for 325 students. Which sucks because her class has 28 kids.
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Post by CeeScraps on Aug 27, 2014 23:36:29 GMT
Create both an account and an email account now. In the future you'll be very glad that you did this. When you create her email, don't give her the password to get into it if you're worried.
We created our dd's own account when she was 8. It has made all of this easy. When we felt she was responsible enough we gave her the email password.
As far as apps we gave her gift cards for her purchases. When she needed the email info we would type it in for her.
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Post by peasful1 on Aug 28, 2014 5:29:16 GMT
It's just so much simpler for everyone in the family to have their own IDs. Even with their own IDs, everyone plugs their stuff into my computer to do an iTunes backup and transfer all purchases to my HD so that they also get backed up to my EHD and then to my online storage.
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Post by gale w on Aug 28, 2014 6:04:35 GMT
We all use the same one here. I just fund it with gift cards every so often.
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Post by Anne-Marie on Aug 28, 2014 14:05:44 GMT
Our family of 4 each has our own Apple IDs so we can FaceTime each other. We have a 5th email that is the App Store/iTunes Apple ID. I choose the songs that go into their playlists. They do not have the password to purchase songs or apps. If you want to get email notification of her iTunes purchases, I would either forward her iTunes emails directly to your email (set up a filter) or have free reign to her email. Your kids are so lucky. My 6th grader's school has 24 computers for 325 students. Which sucks because her class has 28 kids. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk I agree - we are SO lucky that our district has implemented this program. It is SUCH a privilege and I am constantly reminding DD that there are schools in a neighboring district that have two iPads that rotate through all the classrooms during the school day. I'm truly blown away that our district has worked so hard to make this happen. Thank you all for the input - still digesting all the info and trying to figure out which is the way to go. Leaning towards her own ID because that way when she leaves for college (just thinking ahead) she'll be able to take everything with her. Just seems we might be able to keep it more simple that way. |
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