We are sharing one account for 3 iphones, everytime one of us purchase some app, the app show up in the other iphone as well. How do we disable this?

Me, my wife and sis are using the same apple account for our 3 iphone.
Everytime one of us purchase a app online, the other two will have the same app installed automatically.
Sometimes is good, but most of the time, it's annoying.
Is there anyway to disable this?
Thanks,
W.

It's also dangerous that if you are downloading some app that is not good for your kids who is sharing the same account with you. They can easily turn on/off the app sharing without your notification.
So, if Apple can set an option that can control this from the pc instead of from the device, that will be much better to control than this!
I hope Apple is reading this!

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Rome,
I would try everything that "Diesel" has suggested !!!
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Go-Figure !!!

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Hello everybody
My question today is quite simple. I use one account for apps and tv shows, but inwant to use a different itunes account for purchasing itunes match. How can I use them both on my devices? Will it be asking for my user-pass each time i play a song? What other thing should i consider?
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Ghost,
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