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Originally Posted by JoeD
The only way to stop this if a kid is given access to the phone at an age where they may not comprehend the meaning of every screen, is to ensure IAP is disabled and a password forced for each purchase, however most parents (unless they've seen this news report  ) won't know that's needed and the defaults won't offer them much protection. |
I think the real issue is that parents don't realize that several thousand dollars in charges is a possibility. The IAPs are password protected by default, and you can turn them off entirely or even set an allowance if you want. All of the necessary technological tools are available...but only if you *know* what kind of risk there is. The problem, as stated above, is that most people either don't know about the risk at all, or if they do know about the risk, they think that they may be charged an extra 99¢ or so.
I'm not sure why there isn't a default $25 (pick a number) daily limit for IAPs, which you can override in some onerous way if necessary, but which then resets itself to $25 on the next day.