Family sharing if you don't want to constantly update your devices and make your apple products redundant
Hi everyone,
My kids have taken over our older Apple devices - i.e. iPhone and iPad - and have currently got our old stuff, apps, emails etc on their devices. I want to start these devices on a fresh start - although they've got a selected few apps that they say would be a disaster to start up again if we deleted everything.
If I go for family sharing, I believe everything has to be IOS 8 or better (probably IOS 9 tomorrow and IOS 10 the day after tomorrow - argh...). But if I upgrade the older devices (if they can upgrade at all!), they will be awfully slow or not work at all...
Apple shop recently suggested me an alternative: to buy vouchers for my kids and set-up a new apple-ID for them on each device as an alternative, although I don't have control over their purchases, but once the voucher has been used, there won't be any more purchases - only free stuff downloaded. So I don't need the kind of control that family sharing has.
All I want them to have is face-time and an own apple-ID on their devices - and let i.e. my sons FIFA15 app continue as he's been building his team for months on "my" old iPad before he took it over himself.
However, now I cannot set up a new apple-ID because there's no more me.com and I can't create an apple ID for them as they are too young...argh (again!) - (did I mention that argh is my favourite apple-expression the latest few years? Bring back the old times please....!).
What to do?
Yes, I know - go to the apple shop and give them more of my cash to get brand new devices that needs updating and replacement in a year and throw away the old devices and pollute the world further. I would get family sharing going yes, but I would also be a lot poorer and feel like a fool for buying more apple gear.
Any other alternative - using what we've already got?
Stop apple from constantly updating and requiring upgrades of products and inventing new stuff....? It drives me nuts - but probably I wouldn't get away with that suggestion either...
Sorry for my alt-modisch view on all this or if any of my sarcastic apple comments are putting any of you off. Appreciate any feedback or ideas from you guys.
No replies to this one?
Come on guys - whoever still likes apple products - come to their defence and show that Apple isn't totally rubbish after all????
Sarcasm aside, much appreciated if you have any tips for me...
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