{"id":3450,"date":"2014-06-05T13:04:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T17:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:41:28","slug":"how_to_stop-_in-app_purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/how_to_stop-_in-app_purchases\/3450\/","title":{"rendered":"Step-by-step: Prevent In-App Purchases on iOS and Android Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve written about preventing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/parental-controls-to-prevent-in-app-purchases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the dangers of in-app purchases<\/a> before, but if you\u2019re a parent you know the threat of these unwanted add-ons never goes away. These added features come with many apps whose initial downloads are free, and it is how the producers of mobile games, in particular, make their money. The idea is that users will love a game so much once they\u2019ve downloaded it for free, they\u2019ll happily pay for access to new levels, weapons, tools, and the like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05111319\/kids-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5013\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05111319\/kids-1.jpg\" alt=\"kids\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adults can choose to face the financial consequences of their own actions, but they may want to know how to prevent their kids from running up exorbitant credit card bills tied to the parents\u2019 iTunes or Google Play accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, both the Apple and Android platforms have controls to prevent these unwanted purchases. Here is a step-by-step guide to password-protecting in-app purchases for each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apple<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-slider js-gallery-slider\"><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104858\/Apple-1.png\" title=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104858\/Apple-1-576x465.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Apple 1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104855\/Apple-2.png\" title=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104855\/Apple-2-532x465.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Apple 2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104854\/Apple-3.png\" title=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104854\/Apple-3-540x465.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Apple 3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104852\/Apple-4.png\" title=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104852\/Apple-4-587x465.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Apple 4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Android<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like Apple, Android also lets users prevent in-app purchases by adding password protection in the Google Play Store app.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-slider js-gallery-slider\"><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104851\/Android-1.png\" title=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104851\/Android-1-700x404.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Android 1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl><dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104849\/Android-2.png\" title=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/06\/05104849\/Android-2-700x406.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Android 2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-pullquote\"><p>Do your kids make too many in-app purchases? Here\u2019s how to stop them.<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkas.pr%2F1YCW&amp;text=Do+your+kids+make+too+many+in-app+purchases%3F+Here%26%238217%3Bs+how+to+stop+them.\" class=\"btn btn-twhite\" data-lang=\"en\" data-count=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adults can choose to face the financial consequences of their own actions, but they may want to know how to prevent their kids from running up exorbitant credit card bills tied to the parents\u2019 iTunes or Google Play accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":3451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[105,14,22,660,1061,661],"class_list":{"0":"post-3450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-tips","9":"tag-android","10":"tag-apple","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-in-app-purchases","13":"tag-ios","14":"tag-mobile-gaming"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-ae","url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/how_to_stop-_in-app_purchases\/3450\/"},{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/how_to_stop-_in-app_purchases\/3558\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/how_to_stop-_in-app_purchases\/3882\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/how_to_stop-_in-app_purchases\/4080\/"},{"hreflang":"ru","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.ru\/blog\/how_to_stop-_in-app_purchases\/4301\/"},{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/how_to_stop-_in-app_purchases\/5002\/"},{"hreflang":"ru-kz","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.kz\/how_to_stop-_in-app_purchases\/4301\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/how_to_stop-_in-app_purchases\/5002\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/how_to_stop-_in-app_purchases\/5002\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/android\/","name":"Android"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18638,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/18638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}