To reduce the risk of accidental in-app purchases, turn on authentication (it's automatic for Family Friendly apps and games). Authentication requires you to enter certain information, such as a password, on your device to make a purchase. If necessary, you can change or reset your Google Account password.
How to enable or disable authentication
Authentication will only work on an active account. Therefore, it needs to be configured on all devices for each added account.
How to change authentication settings on a mobile deviceNote. restore it.
How to change authentication settings on your ChromebookNote. This can only be done if you are using the Play Store app on your Chromebook.
Follow these steps:
Note. To change authentication settings, you need to enter your Google account password. If you have forgotten your password, you can recover it.
How to set up fingerprint authentication (for some devices)If your device supports fingerprint authentication, you can use it to confirm purchases on Google Play.
The fingerprint authentication prompt only appears if the app requires it or if you followed the steps above to enable authentication upon purchase.
Note. To change authentication settings, you need to enter your Google account password. If you have forgotten your password, you can recover it.
How to change authentication settings on Android TVNote. To change authentication settings, you need to enter your Google account password. If you have forgotten your password, you can recover it.
What do authentication settings mean?
For all Google Play purchases on this device(default). Authentication will be required for every content purchase on Google Play (including in apps).
Monday, April 17, 2017
Learn how to disable in-app purchases if you play EA games on PC, console, or mobile.
In addition to the content you can earn directly from playing, many of our games offer additional in-game content for purchase, often called microcontent or microtransactions. These include premium (virtual) currency and consumables (such as additional energy, additional or improved items, and others).
You are not required to purchase in-game content to enjoy our games, but you can use it to enhance your experience. All in-game materials that require real money to purchase are always marked as such.
Console games
If you play on an Xbox or PlayStation console, your Xbox Live or PlayStation™Network account allows you to set up in-game purchases in the game. We recommend that you review your security and privacy settings and choose what's right for you.
Both Xbox and PlayStation have online security and privacy settings, as well as parental controls and family settings. Thanks to them, you can control spending under your account. This is especially important if your family and friends also use the console.
For more information about security, privacy, and parental control settings, visit the Xbox Support website and PlayStation Knowledge Center.
Mobile games
Most of our mobile games are free and don't require you to spend any money while playing.
You can enable or disable in-app purchases in mobile games. Any Android, Apple iOS or Windows Phone mobile device allows you to quickly limit in-app purchases with simple settings.
Here's how to do it:
- iOS devices: You can use the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to limit purchases. Scroll down to find a section about managing your child's account and making purchases using the feature. “Ask permission to purchase”.
- Android devices: To prevent or restrict purchases on Google Play for Android, you can have your device require a password or verification for each purchase.
- Windows devices: set a PIN for your wallet and even set up a “Kids” environment.
PC Games
To make in-game purchases easier and faster on PC, you can securely store your payment information in your EA Account. We recommend that you save your payment information only if you want to continue using this payment method to make purchases.
If you do not want to store your payment information in your account, simply uncheck the box next to "Save my payment information for all future purchases" when entering payment information into Origin. .
Want to manage your teen's account purchases?
Add your teen to a family account on Origin to gain access to player management settings and stay on top of what your teen is playing and spending money on. .
Children's accounts
You can create an EA Account for your child. In-game purchases are not allowed by default for EA children's accounts.
In addition, social and online features in games cannot be used with an EA Child Account. .
News publications periodically surprise us with interesting stories about how yet another child has lightened the pockets of their parents by several thousand dollars by playing another “free” game on a smartphone or tablet. Today we want to talk about how to protect a not entirely conscious child from the risk of becoming the culprit in the redistribution of the family budget for the coming months. We will not tear off the covers and talk about something complicated. Restricting access to in-app purchases is quite easy on both Android and iOS, but some people simply don't do it, hoping that their child will definitely not do something stupid like buying a cool black dragon in the game for only $49.99.
A little about in-app purchases
An application that is distributed free of charge, but includes in-app purchases, is usually called “freemium.” That is, it is supposedly free, but in practice, in the process of interacting with applications, the user will periodically be asked for money “to reveal all the delights of the gameplay,” or “to get the maximum experience from working with the application.” Games, and especially children's games, have become the kings of such scams. Of course, making money on childish naivety and lack of understanding of the value of money is quite vile, but this is business.
The problem is that parents may not know about the presence of such in-app purchases in the next game that they give to their child to be torn to pieces. Believe me, in-app purchases await the user precisely at critical moments, when just a little bit is needed to win, and here it is - a gift from the developer, with it you will definitely pass the level that you have been puffing on for so long, and for only $4.99. An adult will be able to restrain himself, but a child will press without even thinking.
iOS and Android use a standard way to restrict access to in-app purchases. As protection, a PIN code is used, which must be entered to confirm the purchase. It's convenient and fast.
iOS
In order to enable a PIN code in iOS, you need to go to the “Settings” of the system. Here we go to the “Basic” item.
We need a "Restrictions" section.
The system will ask you to create a password for restrictions, after which you need to find the “In-App Purchases” item in the list and, if necessary, disable them.
Since shopping now requires a password, and a child can grab the mobile device immediately after you enter the password, you need to change the standard frequency of asking for a password during purchases from 15 minutes to constantly with each new purchase.
The creators of iPhone and iOS have made the process of purchasing content very simple and fast.
Parting with money has never been easier. We click on the next chest, a handful of stones or other game currency, confirm the desire to make a purchase with a fingerprint or a glance at the Face ID camera and that’s it: our money is sent to the account of the application developers.
To limit this process a little and avoid unplanned expenses, you can resort to a little trick.
Who will benefit from this?
Limiting in-app purchases will be useful for those who often let their children play on their smartphone or tablet. It is young technology users who do not realize the seriousness of in-game purchases and easily reset their parent’s account.
Confirming purchases using Touch ID or a password is not always the solution. Sooner or later, the child will remember a complex password or his fingerprint will be added so as not to disturb the parents after each lock of the device.
In addition, limiting in-app purchases will be useful for gambling users. Those who, in the heat of battle, can easily buy into a “lucrative” offer and give hard-earned rubles for a bunch of useless boosts.
How to setup
1. Follow the path Settings – General – Restrictions.
2. Create a new password to enable restrictions. It is better that it does not coincide with the device unlock code or part of it.
3. Find a section In-App Purchases and disable this switch.
Now it will be impossible to make a purchase inside any application or game.
When on Family Sharing You can enable a request for other family members to make purchases.
To do this, go to Settings – Account name – Family sharing. Specify a family member and enable the option Ask to buy. Now, without confirmation on the parent device, it will be impossible to make a purchase from the child’s account.
⭐ Thanks to re:Store for the useful information.
As it turns out, there are many people who don’t know what the App Store is. There is nothing wrong with this, because today we will figure out what kind of program this is.
To be honest, people only come across this name when at least one gadget from Apple appears. This is where it all begins.
I will try to explain everything as simply as possible and in addition to the explanation itself, we will also consider other issues that are related to this store.
What is the App Store?
Appstore is an application store for devices such as iPad, iPod, iPad and, in principle, all computers and laptops from this company.
You should immediately understand that for each device there is the same version of the program, but the applications in it are completely different, although there are many things in common.
Oddly enough, this store appeared later than the very first iPhone came out. In the very first version of iOS, you couldn't install apps.
Literally in 2008, Ep Store appeared and then the device took on a completely new meaning. The era of applications and games for smartphones has begun.
If we consider what the App Store means, then everything is quite simple. Logically, the full name is Application Store.
And it should not be confused with the Apple Store, because this is the name of the places where you can purchase any equipment from this company. I was confused at the beginning and that’s quite normal.
These days there is a lot available to download and there are both paid and free games/apps. Everything is divided into categories for easier searching.
What does "In-App Purchases" mean in the App Store?
Quite often, new users of Apple technology do not understand what “In-App Purchases” may mean. This is also quite simple to explain. 
Let's say you downloaded a photo editor for yourself. You started using it and it seemed like everything was free. But when you started looking at the filters, you came across a dilemma.
We started trying different options and at a certain point, we found options where it was written that you need to pay money to use it.
These are in-app purchases. The same goes for games, everything that can be bought in a game can be attributed to this expression.
App Store in English - what to do?
So, some users may have a problem when everything in the App Store is in English. And it’s very difficult when you don’t know him. 
There could be several reasons for this:
- An English-speaking country has been selected for the store;
- The interface language on the phone is English.
In the first option, when you registered an Apple ID, you indicated not your country, but, for example, America. This is often done to gain access to applications from that country.
To change your country, you will have to create a new account. Just go to Settings - iTunes Store and App Store - click Apple ID: your login - View Apple ID - Enter your password - Country/region.
The second option is simpler and usually occurs when people want to learn a foreign language. I previously described this process in great detail in an article.
What does cloud mean in the App Store?
Well, the last thing we’ll talk about today is the cloud in the Ep Store. Many people are probably already familiar with what cloud storage is. 
The essence of this expression does not change in the store. When you download an application or game, after uninstalling it, you can download it from the cloud.
The idea behind all this is quite simple: very often developers remove their applications from the store, but after downloading it at least once, you can then download it from the cloud.
Results
Now you know what the App Store application is and why it exists at all. I tried to give you as much information about this as possible, but in a short form.
Quite a lot of questions related to this topic were also considered, and I think that if you have any other questions, please contact me and I will be happy to explain.