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Handy Hint 63  - "How do I stop all my kids games from appearing on my iPad and iPhone?"

If you share an iTunes account with your family, and in particular your kids, it can be really annoying to have all their games automatically appearing on your device/s!  But how do you stop this from happening?

This is something you control from your Settings. Watch the below video or ready the Step-by-Step instructions to see how.

Watch this short video - press ▷to play.

If you don't see ▷ at first, it will be because the video file is still downloading.  Just wait a short while, and it should appear in the middle of the screen.   (Duration: 1m06ss,  Size: 4.7MB)

Step by Step instructions:

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The feature that causes your kids' games to appear on your device is called 'Automatic Downloads'.  

If you don't want to automatically see all the apps that are purchased with a shared iTunes account, you need to turn off Automatic Downloads for apps on your own device/s.  This is done in Settings.

  1. Go to Settings -> iTunes and App Store
  2. Scroll down a bit, and you will see a section call Automatic Downloads.
  3. To stop Apps purchased on other devices (with the same Apple ID) appearing on this device, turn 'Off' the Apps switch (slide it to the left so that it is no longer green).
  4. Same applies if you don't want to automatically get Music or Books - turn off those options too.
  5. And while you are there, you can tell your device to automatically download any App updates for you - so that you don't have to do that manually every time you see a '1' on the App Store icon on your Home Screen.
  6. But just make sure you turn 'off' the Use Cellular Data option (if your device has a SIM card - otherwise your App updates could easily blow your monthly cellular data limit.)