fixed : unable to approve children’s iPad app from iPhone

Posted on 12-12-2017 by MacManus.nl

Question :

My children have an iPad with a managed account ; they can’t buy any apps from the iTunes App Store nor can they do any In-App Purchases without my approval ; every time they want to buy something from their iPad, I get a message on my iPhone that I need to approve the purchase.

This normally works without a flaw, but today when my children asked for a new app, I got the approval question message on my iPhone, but when I opened it, the iTunes App store wouldn’t load ; the page stays blank and the wheel keeps on spinning… no matter how many times I try… same thing every time… even restarting my iPhone didn’t help…

What is wrong ?

Answer :

Since the introduction of iOS 11, there’s also a new version of the iTunes App Store as you might have noticed… now this new App Store was made more consumer-friendly as it does no longer show you apps that can’t run on your device.

This ‘consumer-friendliness’ has introduced a flaw (or rather a bug) : on your iPhone you can no longer see iPad-only apps in the App Store… that turns out to be problematic for the approval process : as your iPhone can’t show the app your children want to purchase for their iPad, you can’t approve it…

Until Apple fixes this, the only option is to approve the purchase from your own iPad… (so I sure hope you have one…) or temporarily switch of limitations on your children’s iPad…

NOTE : even approval from iTunes on your Mac isn’t an option, as Apple has stripped the iOS Apps section from the iTunes app recently…

fixed : “ssl peer shut down incorrectly”-error when updating Minecraft

Posted on 11-03-2014 by MacManus.nl

Question :

When trying to update the Mac-version of Minecraft, I get this error :

ssl peer shut down incorrectly

I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong… my internet-conection is working and everything else seems to be running just fine…

How can I get Minecraft to update properly ?

Answer :

Using the solution described in this post will almost certainly solve your updating problem.

enjoy !

😉

fixed : update Minecraft on restricted user account

Posted on 11-03-2014 by MacManus.nl

Question :

I have installed the Minecraft game (Mac version) for my children. But, on my Mac, the account of my children is an account with ‘parental guidance’ restrictions, not a full administrator account. Now every time there is an update of Minecraft, I have to log in to the (main) administrator account, turn administrator rights for the children’s account back on, log in on the (now administrator) children’s account run and update Minecraft there, then log out of that account, log back in as the main administrator, turn ‘parental guidance’ back on for the children’s account, reset all restrictions manually (they can’t be save or restored from the previous time…), then log out of the main administrator account again and log in using the (now restricted) children’s account and run Minecraft again. If I don’t do it like that, I get all kinds of error messages, and I can’t update. This is an extremely annoying procedure…

…isn’t there any way to do these updates more conveniently ?

Answer :

To allow Minecraft updates to managed user accounts in OSX, do the following :

(Note : this will also fix the “ssl peer shut down incorrectly”-error)

1- go to System Preferences –> Accounts

2- click on the padlock icon (bottom left) and type the Administrator name & password

3- then select the managed account and click “Open Parental Controls”

4- then, (when “Limit Applications” is checked) allow these apps for the managed user account :

in “Other Apps” :

– Applet Launcher

– Java VisualVM

– MinecraftLauncher

and in “Utilities” :

– Java Preferences

5- then, click on the “Logs…”-button

in the window that opens, select “Websites Blocked” and click on “Amazonaws”, than for each “Unknown” listed under “Amazonaws”, click the “Allow”-button that appears when “Unknown” is selected

6- then click “Done” to exit back to the “Parental Controls”-window,

7- click on the “Web”-tab there, “Try to limit…” will be selected, leave that as is, and click on the “Customize”-button

8- then, at “Always allow these websites:” click on the plussign-button and add this URL :

https://libraries.minecraft.net

9- then click “OK” to exit and quit System Preferences

10- then startup Minecraft (the Minecraft Launcher app), wait for the update to download and login using your eMail-address as your login-name (using your Minecraft nickname seems not to work…)

11- if the first login attempt doesn’t succeed, try again

…and even if the second and third login attempts do not succeed either, try again

…finally, the login (using the same eMail-address and password) will succeed…

that’s it !

enjoy !

😉

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fixed : unable to approve children’s iPad app from iPhone

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