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You’ve heard the horror stories<\/a> about parents whose children rack up thousands in bills due to inadvertent in-app purchases. But not you, not today. You refuse to be a victim.<\/p>\n Parents of\u00a0children\u00a0among\u00a0all age ranges\u00a0are not alone in the never-ending quest to maintain\u00a0control of their\u00a0family’s iOS mobile devices. Many parents have had “the talk” with their kids to quell those ever-increasing phone bills: A\u00a02014 Statista survey<\/a>\u00a0found about 75-percent of teens are not allowed to spend any money using mobile devices.<\/p>\n And parents have\u00a0good reason for wanting to control\u00a0app purchases.<\/p>\n Let’s be blue-sky clear: when using an iPhone or iPad to play games, your child will be\u00a0bombarded with opportunities to pay for shortcuts, called\u00a0in-app purchases<\/a>, when playing “free to-play” games.<\/p>\n Have your kids ever swiped your iPad the first moment you’re not looking?<\/p>\n The problems occur when you find they’ve taken 468 selfies, deleted apps, and had spent $100 or more on in-app purchases playing Clash of Clans when they should have been doing homework or, better yet, got some fresh air outside in the sun.<\/p>\n Or maybe your kids are old enough to have their own iPhone or iPad, but you’re still paying the bills. An in-app purchase here, another purchase there; it all adds up.<\/p>\n