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Setting up kid's iTunes account - macphanatic - 09-23-2010
Trying to set up an iTunes account for my soon to be 11 year old. Seems I have to lie about his birthday to make him 13 or iTunes indicates that he isn't authorized to create an account. ( I removed parental restrictions on his login and iTunes account to no avail). Once I lied about his birth year, I got to the payment section. It appears that you can no longer create an account that isn't tied to a credit card, pay pal account or similar in iTunes 10. Is there anyway around this?
Re: Setting up kid's iTunes account - StingMe - 09-23-2010
Set up an iTunes Allowance: https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/allowanceWizard
Re: Setting up kid's iTunes account - SKYLANE - 09-23-2010
If I had kids, they would operate through my iTunes account so that I had visibility to the best of my ability on what they were downloading, viewing, etc.
iTunes I think should be a supervised activity. Just like the internet. IMHO
Re: Setting up kid's iTunes account - macphanatic - 09-23-2010
I don't want him on my account as I have songs and movies that aren't age appropriate. I can supervise his iTunes account via parental controls in iTunes and OSX. I don't want it tied to a CC or other source of funding. He's free to download free apps that meet the parental controls.
Re: Setting up kid's iTunes account - RAMd®d - 09-24-2010
The allowance thing seems OK, but it's too bad you can't set up an account based on iT gift cards.
Gift cards seem more appropriate for-- well, gift occasions.