How to Cancel the Purchase of an app on Kindle Fire if you did not make it yourself?

Kindle Fire has become one of the best applications to read on your devices, just by buying it this will already be in your virtual library.

Buying with this application is something very simple to do, which is why it is very common to hear stories that sometimes they are bought by accident or that a child made purchases from you without your authorization, which can generate unnecessary expenses that you can easily avoid and here we will show you how.

What to do if someone has made a purchase on Kindle Fire without your authorization?

As we have already told you Kindle Fire It is a very simple application to use, perhaps too simple, if you have children in your house, it is likely that they will be interested in reading a comic or manga in this application, without understanding that this is a service that must be paid for. In fact, due to how easy it is to accidentally buy from this app without your authorization, many people sued Amazon for a solution.

Since that Amazon lawsuit implemented a very simple system of returns within the application, this in order to be able to return these books that have been purchased by mistake more quickly and efficiently for the consumer.

How to cancel an app purchase made on Kindle Fire?

The simplicity of this application has made it very well known, buying a book through Kindle fire is so simple how to press a couple of times the screenthe same thing happens if we want to cancel a purchase made within this app, something to understand is that the action of canceling automatically will also allow you to process your refund, which we will explain later.

From the App settings

One thing to know is that all the actions you have to do It is within the application settingsonce we access our Amazon account, but remember that this action is only simple when buying books, so you can also expect to get a refund in any other Amazon application, this changes drastically.

How to request a refund for an app purchase?

Now to be able cancel your purchase and be able to request a refund on Kindle Fire, as we have already told you before, it is something too simple to do, which is not very common in other shopping applications.

Remember that in order to make a cancellation in which you can receive your refund, it must be make within 7 days, since if you do it after this time you will not be able to get a refund. To get your refund you must do these simple steps:

1. You must first log in to Amazon.
2. Now at the top of your Amazon home page, where you see the account name, click on the dropdown menu, which is right next to the ‘Accounts and Lists’ option. Within the menu you must click on the option ‘Your content and devices’.
3. On the first page you will see on your device, click on the option ‘Manage your content and devices’, This will show three options, you must click on the one that says Your content, this will show all the books and applications that you have purchased in the app.
4. Once you see the content you want to get rid of, click on the three-dot button next to it, this will show you several options that you must press the ‘Return for Refund’ option.
5. A pop-up window will appear where you will be asked to confirm the action, press ‘Return for refund’ and that’s it, the purchase will be canceled and the money will be refunded.

How to disable in app purchases on Kindle Fire?

Amazon in view of the problem and the many complaints from its consumers saying that their children inadvertently bought content that they did not want, they did not hesitate to take charge of the matter, for this reason they implemented a measure to prevent this from happening.

Placing the option to disable purchases in the application, making you require a key to use this function, to activate it you must do the following:

1. Enter the store apps on your Kindle Fire, within this click on the Settings button that you will see below the menu.
2. Click on the ‘Parental Controls’ option.
3. Within this you must click on ‘Enable parental controls’. doing this will cause you to be prompted to enter your Amazon account password every time you want to make a purchase as a security measure. This will ensure that purchases within your Kindle Fire more difficult for any child to dobecause you will have to go through a two-step process and have to know the password to make any in-app purchase.
4. Once you activate this and enter the password, the option ‘Password protection purchases‘ within the parental controls section, make sure this is activated and ready, you will not have any more problems with unauthorized purchases.