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moehat

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Sorry technical people but worlds biggest technophobe needing help yet again. Grandchildren having an ipad for Christmas but their parents haven't bought them any apps to go with it. I have a list of suitable apps but have no idea how I go about buying them for them. I mean, can I just go to a shop and buy them or is it an internet thing? I just don't want the kids to have an ipad on Christmas day and nothing to do with it. Thanks in advance [sorry for my thickness].
 
The iPad comes with an App Store app.

All apps are bought (unless free, obviously), downloaded and installed through this.

Its very straightforward, they'll have filled the thing up by the time the Queen's on :)
 
Thanks Gareth. So I can give both boys some money and say that mummy and daddy will buy them some apps with it. I can't keep up with it all. Even the computer at work has morphed into something with lots of colourful pictures and flashing lights whereas before it was just, like, words...
 
Well, they're not actually opening the ipad till christmas day and I was just worried that they'd open a present that needed charging up and all sorts doing to it before it could be used [my kids, intelligent professional people that they are sometimes don't think about such things]. My grandsons are 5 and 2. Without being selfish [I've bought them lots of other things as well] I kind of want them to know that I've bought some of the apps, so if I gave them, say £10 each it might teach them something about money and they could then choose the apps they want.I've got an article from the Observer about childrens apps I could give them. That way they can choose a couple of apps each and understand that it's actual money that pays for such things. Oh for the days of a selection box, a wind up train and an orange....
 
I love selection boxes.

Nothing like Xmas and overeating to make you feel good about yourself.
 
Go to tescos and buy them an iTunes voucher. Its a voucher with a number on it that they enter into iTunes and it puts credit on their account to use. Comes in a iTunes card. Comes in an iTunes cover. Youl be the coolest grandparent alive.
 
If you have an abundance of Tesco clubcard points / vouchers you can get a £25 iTunes voucher for £12.50 in clubcard points / vouchers.
 
moehat said:
Well, they're not actually opening the ipad till christmas day and I was just worried that they'd open a present that needed charging up and all sorts doing to it before it could be used [my kids, intelligent professional people that they are sometimes don't think about such things]. My grandsons are 5 and 2. Without being selfish [I've bought them lots of other things as well] I kind of want them to know that I've bought some of the apps, so if I gave them, say £10 each it might teach them something about money and they could then choose the apps they want.I've got an article from the Observer about childrens apps I could give them. That way they can choose a couple of apps each and understand that it's actual money that pays for such things. Oh for the days of a selection box, a wind up train and an orange....
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It should come mostly charged out of the box. There's a few setup steps that you have to go through when you turn it on for the first time, but its fairly straightforward. The most important one is setting up an Apple ID. Use one of their parent's email addresses and don't tell the grandkids the password :) You can't buy anything in the app store without first entering the password (there's also further parental controls in the settings that you can use to prevent them from doing various other things with it).

Have a read through this so you don't get any surprises:

http://www.apple.com/uk/support/ipad/getstarted/
 
Cannot access the forum from iphone - it diverts to something called "ads". I have never used the iphone for porn before ye ask. Has it something to do with dropbox that i downloaded lately. It asks do I want to open in dropbox. Del Boy need not answer.
 
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