The Android app store is quite extensive and offers applications of all kinds that can save users a lot of work in their day to day or entertain them. In Europe there are a large number of paid applications available and in many cases they even make purchases within the application itself, a practice that is quite common in some cases.
This is not a bad thing, far from it, but it is true that This can be dangerous if you tend to leave your cell phone with your children. or if you are part of a family group where payment data for making purchases is shared. In fact, many cases have come to light where children have spent a large portion of their parents’ money on in-app purchases.
Fortunately, Android offers several ways to limit these types of purchases and block payment data so that No one can use your card without your consent. This will make it very difficult for your child or someone you entrust your cell phone to purchase, by mistake or on purpose, an application or subscription on Google Play.
Request verification
As with other platforms and services, Google is able to remember both your credentials and your payment information so that the next time you want to use them, you don’t have to enter them manually or remember them. However, if you’re not careful, this can also be a risk.
This is why it is highly recommended to enable the purchase verification option. This will ensure that before making any type of purchase or subscription the user is prompted to provide the account password or you may be asked to log in using a biometric identification method such as fingerprinting.
Purchase verification
To enable this feature, simply open the Google Play app. Once here, simply click on the profile picture and click on the settings button. In this section you will find a section called purchase verification. Here it will be possible to establish the frequency with which the keys are requested, in addition to deciding whether biometric identification can be used or not.
It is best to enable both sections, so that every time you make a purchase you can enter the password or enter your fingerprint. Beyond this, in the configuration of the family group it will also be highly recommended to remove the payment method that is in the “Family Wallet” part, to which the rest of the users of the group will have access.
