I hope that it is not the children who inquire in this section and make the purchases to their liking, but to the parents that sometimes we are lost at the time of finding appropriate applications for our children it can come in handy. The Apple App Store has a new section, Kids, Children, which includes all applications for children under 11 years old.
This is one of the novelties of Apple in iOS 7, and is present both in the iOS 7 mobile App Store and through iTunes. And is that children are increasingly familiar with the use of any technological device, so they are large users of applications intended for them.
The "Children" section is divided into three age ranges: for children under five years old, between six and eight years old, and finally, for children between nine and eleven years old.
In any case, applications that are part of some of these three age ranges must have a series of requirements, such as those of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which prohibits developers from requesting personal information from minors.
In addition, it requires them to have clear privacy policies, and their applications may not have advertisements that encourage children to perform activities within the application. Also, and this is important, they must have parental permission before linking to an external website or application.
This section is also designed by the giant Apple to reach schools, since children under 13 can register if they have the approval of an educational entity. But I still do not know in my environment schools that have tablets for children ... everything will come. For now, good luck if we have a computer.
Before for my daughters I used to investigate in the category "Education" (which is maintained) or by entering the word "kids" or "children" in searches, but This new section for children in the App Store makes it easy for us to find the most suitable applications for children.
