There are more and more possibilities to comfortably acquire all kinds of content through the store Google Play applications If we knew last month that Google was going to put cards on sale gift so that everyone could gift or buy applications, books and movies without depending on a credit card, this month we learned that an agreement with Movistar allows all these purchases to be charged to the monthly invoiceEverything is easy.
However, with these facilities also come the problems More than one will have acquired some complete in -app (within an app) or some content that you really didn't want for venturing into the purchasing process Not to mention the child antics when they have a smartphone in the hands, which sometimes do not understand what they do. All this with a maximum return time of 15 minutes But there is an infallible solution: set a password
And the fact is that the people of Google have already thought about these issues that users dislike when they see charges on your credit cards For this reason, the possibility of establishing a password is enabled to interrupt the purchase processbefore making the paymentWith this, we can enter our Google Wallet account and our credit card while being secure that, without the password, it will not be possible to purchase anything Or through Google Play, nor from their own applications
However, this utility is not active by default, being the user who has to configure your own password For this there is a specific section within the menu Settings of Google Play This is User controls where we can mark the option Use PIN for purchases With this, we must establish our numerical code This is presented whenever the user data is going to be used in a purchase process through Google Play, being necessary and mandatoryenter it correctly to carry out the transaction.
In this way we can be sure that we will not make any type of charge to our Movistar card or invoice, in case it is user of this company. Of course, as long as they are purchases through the Google Play platform And it is that the external web pages do not have this protection , only those contents that depend on Google, so it is best to always use the common sense when making purchases through our smartphone or tablet
We also recommend using the other menu options User controls in Settings And, if we leave our terminal to the little ones in the house, we can establish some more preferences for security such as the content filter, which allows you to restrict the installation of applications according to the level maturityAnd we don't forget about the possibility to change the protection password at any time, if necessary. To do this, all you have to do is insert the old one and enter a new one in case it has been discovered, or as a mere security procedure
