Apple has added warnings about the presence of IAP in the description of applications on the App Store. But will this help parents avoid “unexpected” embezzlement in the future?
After numerous scandals and lawsuits on the topic “my child spent several thousand dollars in a free game“, Apple backed down. The company has added a new line to the descriptions. If there is an IAP in the program, no matter whether it is paid or not, then on its page in the App Store it will appear in small print: “With in-app purchases.”
This measure is designed to protect parents in the future from episodes like spending £1,700 by five-year-old Danny Kitchen on Zombie & Ninjas, whose parents, when their son asked for a password, thought he needed it to access a free game. He also purchased IAP for £69.99 apiece.
Will an additional line in the description of the project help inattentive parents? Unlikely. In addition, the problem is rather not in the description, not in the fact that in the App Store, they say, there should be some kind of red sign warning about in-app purchases everywhere. The problem is with parents who, instead of taking care of children, surround them with attention, put them either at a computer or a tablet, so that they do not run, do not jump, but in fact, so that they do not interfere.