My Disney Experience app - My Party problem

[CarolynFH]

One other note.... Since the kids are under 18, their plans can only be managed by the adult who created their account. That will be the only person who can make reservations for them.

If that was your daughter, you will not be able to make reservations for them and will need to let you daughter do it. Or, have your daughter change the ages of the kids to 18+.

If you created the children's profiles, then only you can make the reservations.

You’re referring to resort reservations, right? OP shouldn’t have any problems making ADRs or reserving ILL$, Genie+LLs or VQ as long as the kids are in her F&F list.

 

[raidermatt]

You’re referring to resort reservations, right? OP shouldn’t have any problems making ADRs or reserving ILL$, Genie+LLs or VQ as long as the kids are in her F&F list.

Unfortunately it is everything. I was wrong about the age though, its under 13, not 18.

Family & Friends in My Disney Experience – Frequently Asked Questions​

Q:
In My Disney Experience, how can multiple adults or teens make plans for a child?
A:
In the Family & Friends section of My Disney Experience, you can create a profile for a child under age 13 simply by entering the name and age. The person who creates a child’s profile will manage the profile and all the plans for that child. The child’s profile cannot be transferred to another person to manage.
Only create one profile per child. Creating multiple profiles for an individual may result in issues accessing travel plans and Lightning Lane entrances.
Any Guest age 13 and older who does not have a Disney account may create an account at any time. If you make plans on behalf of a Guest who later creates a Disney account, be sure to invite that Guest to connect with you in Family & Friends using his or her Disney account email. This allows the plans you’ve made to migrate to the other Guest’s account.

 

[CarolynFH]

Unfortunately it is everything. I was wrong about the age though, its under 13, not 18.

Family & Friends in My Disney Experience – Frequently Asked Questions​

Q:
In My Disney Experience, how can multiple adults or teens make plans for a child?
A:
In the Family & Friends section of My Disney Experience, you can create a profile for a child under age 13 simply by entering the name and age. The person who creates a child’s profile will manage the profile and all the plans for that child. The child’s profile cannot be transferred to another person to manage.
Only create one profile per child. Creating multiple profiles for an individual may result in issues accessing travel plans and Lightning Lane entrances.
Any Guest age 13 and older who does not have a Disney account may create an account at any time. If you make plans on behalf of a Guest who later creates a Disney account, be sure to invite that Guest to connect with you in Family & Friends using his or her Disney account email. This allows the plans you’ve made to migrate to the other Guest’s account.

Is this new? I didn’t have any trouble making FP+ for or linking our grandkids under 13 to ADRs back in 2017 or in December 2020. I was also able to link the kids’ names to DVC resort reservations in December 2020. All via my F&F list in MDE - their profiles were managed by my DS, but their names were listed and I simply checked them off. However, he did have to grant me permission to plan for each one via his MDE account.

I haven’t seen reports of people not being able to book VQ or ILL$ or Genie+LL for children whose profiles they didn’t manage, but since I don’t frequent the Families forum I may not have seen this in regards to kids under 13.

 

[sponica]

Is this new? I didn’t have any trouble making FP+ for or linking our grandkids under 13 to ADRs back in 2017 or in December 2020. I was also able to link the kids’ names to DVC resort reservations in December 2020. All via my F&F list in MDE - their profiles were managed by my DS, but their names were listed and I simply checked them off. However, he did have to grant me permission to plan for each one via his MDE account.

I haven’t seen reports of people not being able to book VQ or ILL$ or Genie+LL for children whose profiles they didn’t manage, but since I don’t frequent the Families forum I may not have seen this in regards to kids under 13.

It's been a new issue. If you can choose them to make a dummy dining reservation, it shouldn't be an issue. Or try to make a park reservation (assuming you don't have them already).
My husband can make lightning lanes for our kiddo, even though I manage the kiddo plans.

 

[raidermatt]

Is this new? I didn’t have any trouble making FP+ for or linking our grandkids under 13 to ADRs back in 2017 or in December 2020. I was also able to link the kids’ names to DVC resort reservations in December 2020. All via my F&F list in MDE - their profiles were managed by my DS, but their names were listed and I simply checked them off. However, he did have to grant me permission to plan for each one via his MDE account.

I haven’t seen reports of people not being able to book VQ or ILL$ or Genie+LL for children whose profiles they didn’t manage, but since I don’t frequent the Families forum I may not have seen this in regards to kids under 13.

Early August was the first time this came up for us. Had to have my BiL change the ages of his kids in their profile, and then I could do everything. The last time we had any children in our group other than our own was pre FP+, so I can only speak to how it worked recently.

 

[sponica]

Early August was the first time this came up for us. Had to have my BiL change the ages of his kids in their profile, and then I could do everything. The last time we had any children in our group other than our own was pre FP+, so I can only speak to how it worked recently.

Just a random question, because I haven't been able to test this out. Do you know if your BIL had "share all plans" or the "only the plans we share" checked off? I'm wondering if people who control under 13 profiles have the second one checked have issues with other people planning for their kiddos. My husband can make plans for my kid, but I have share all plans checked with him...

 

[TheOneWithTheTriplets]

Just a random question, because I haven't been able to test this out. Do you know if your BIL had "share all plans" or the "only the plans we share" checked off? I'm wondering if people who control under 13 profiles have the second one checked have issues with other people planning for their kiddos. My husband can make plans for my kid, but I have share all plans checked with him...

Curious about this as well. I was the primary booker for our family but used my husband's account to do VQs because his data was faster. I manage the kids but he was able to do VQ for everyone, including the 8 year olds.

 

[JodyK]

I was able to do many things I'd consider managing plans for 2 of my SIL kids last week while on a trip with the share all plans feature on. I was able to make LL reservations, dining reservations, buy Genie+, edit park reservations, join VQs with them, and assign them tickets I had purchased. They are 3 and 5.

 

[raidermatt]

Just a random question, because I haven't been able to test this out. Do you know if your BIL had "share all plans" or the "only the plans we share" checked off? I'm wondering if people who control under 13 profiles have the second one checked have issues with other people planning for their kiddos. My husband can make plans for my kid, but I have share all plans checked with him...

He said he did, but I never looked at his setup for myself since changing the ages fixed it.

I really can't speak to the other comments saying they had no problems. I can only share my own experience as well as what Disney's own policy says. Maybe the ages weren't actually entered in the children's profiles, or maybe for some reason Disney does not apply their policy consistently. Its easily testable before a trip though. Just make sure everything is linked and see if you can make dining ADRs for everyone. If that works, then the G+ LLs should work.

 

[JodyK]

I think it is true what their policy states but maybe what it doesn't say is that the parent (or person who created the profile) as part of the managing of that profile is able to allow it connect with other profiles as well.

Thinking back on it I believe I had to connect with the kids at some point to be able to manage their plans. The way I found them to connect was by using the 'Find through my connected guests" but in order to see them the parent would have to have their friends list shared. When I connected with them the parent would get an alert and they would be able to accept the invite and they would appear in my friends list (and say plans managed by x) but then I was also able to manage their plans. I don't know if that is a "hack" and not the way Disney intended the system to work? There's pretty limited information in the FAQs about connecting with existing profiles like I couldn't find any official documentation that even talks about the find through my connected guests feature It does work the same way as sharing profiles of adults though. I manage some other profiles seniors without their own MDE and did the same process to get them connected with everyone.

ETA - The trips were in July and September but I had been connected to the kiddos in like January of this year so not sure if that makes a difference? Maybe you are no longer able to connect with younger guests in this way.