Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure

Innerworld@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure

Tarambor@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

Upon updating their device software, users will be faced with a message which says: “UK law requires you to confirm you are an adult to change content restrictions.”

There is no such requirement in UK law that it age checks have to be done on a device level.

Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure

Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure

Apple’s iOS 26.4 update adds age verification in the UK