How to Create an Apple ID / iTunes Account for Your Child on Your iPad

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Apple's new Family Sharing plan is a great way to organize your devices at home. This new plan will help keep these devices separated but still only requiring you to buy a particular song, movie or app once for all devices. And for parents, it has great parental controls that make it easier to verify your kid's purchases.

If you have a kid under 13, you will need to go through a special process to set an Apple ID for them. This is good because it skips the requirement for a credit card to be put on the account, but you will need to verify the credit card for the primary account on the Family Sharing plan.
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Here's how to create an Apple ID for your kid:

• To start the process, you need to use the iPad signed into the Family Sharing feature's primary account. This is the account that holds the payment information and is allowed to send out invitations.
• Go to the iPad Settings (located in the Settings app) and choose iCloud from the left-side menu.
• In the iCloud settings, choose Family. This will take you to a new screen listing all the family members on that account. Below the "Shared Payment Method" is the option to add a child onto the account. Tap the "Create an Apple ID for a child" link to get started.
• On the first screen, you will enter the child's birthday.
• Next, Agree to the Parent Privacy Disclosure. This disclosure covers giving Apple your child's name, birthdate, a password and answers to security questions.
• Verify you are the parent by typing in the 3 digit security code on the back of the credit card used as the payment for the primary family member's account.
• Enter the child's first and last name.
• Create an Apple ID using an icloud.com email address. Even if your kid has his or her own email address with another provider, you must choose an icloud.com address for the Apple ID. After typing in the account name for the icloud.com address, an email address will be created.
• Enter an Apple ID password for the newly created account. This must conform to the same rules as any Apple password, which means it must have at least 8 characters, one number, one uppercase letter and one lowercase letter. Unfortunately, Apple likes to reject some passwords for no apparent reason, so if you get a "password is too simple" rejection, tell a joke about Apple becoming big brother and try a different one.
• The next stage is to input Security Questions, which proves the Family Sharing system was thrown together without too much thought. My 3-year-old certainly doesn't have a best friend from high school. Fill these out as if you were doing them yourself.
• Choose whether Ask to Buy is turned on. Ask to Buy is a security feature that will verify any purchases with the primary account. This allows you to give the okay for a purchase from your iPhone or iPad without using your kid's device and typing your password into it.
• Share Location is an important part of Find My Family, which is a security feature that not only tracks devices, but allows you to lock or wipe them remotely. It's a good idea to turn it on.
• The last step is verifying the terms and agreements. You may need to do this multiple times, for example, agreeing to the Find My Family conditions as well as the Apple ID and iTunes conditions.