One of the things that is always feared when giving a smartphone to a child is that he will make unauthorized purchases with it. And this happens more and more frequently, especially since the arrival of the possibility of acquiring things from within an application or game. If you want this not to happen to you and the terminal you have is Android, we will tell you how you are going to be able to achieve it. Basically, what has to be done is to block this action in the official Play Store, for which Google includes a system that adds an authentication gateway that prevents any purchase from being made if the required information is not provided, which, obviously, the child must not know (since, otherwise, everything you do will fall on deaf ears). Therefore, you do not have to install anything to prevent a bill at the end of the month that can become scandalous in the purchase of applications. Steps to avoid unwanted purchases on Android devices All you have to do is very simple, and in less than two or three minutes at the most you will have established the authentication method that you want to impose, generally it is a password, so that only one purchase that you authorize. By the way, if what you do does not convince you, you can always go back following the same steps, but resetting the final choice you made. Follow these instructions: Start the Play Store application on the phone on which you want to put the limitations. Once you have the store interface, in the upper right part you will see the icon that represents the Google account that is registered in the Android terminal. Click on it and, in the contextual menu that appears, select Settings. The next thing is to locate the Authentication section and, when you display it, you will see that there is an option called Request authentication to make purchases. Use it. A window appears in which there are three options, and you have to choose the first one: For all purchases made through Google Play on this device: there are others that are useful, for example, if you leave the terminal a child for a period of time to be entertained You are done and, every time a purchase is attempted on the device if the password of the Google account is not entered, it will not be carried out. Everything simple and without risks, so it must be said that the work done by Google here is quite good. The fact is that you are not going to be surprised because one of your children has bought all the possible add-ons within a game… and this will be a considerable sum. Therefore, do not stop being warned. >
