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

Apple present requires users successful the UK to verify their property with the motorboat of iOS 26.4. In a enactment leafage connected Apple's website, the institution says users indispensable corroborate that they're implicit 18 to "use definite services oregon features, oregon instrumentality definite actions connected their account."

UK users tin corroborate their property by scanning their ID oregon utilizing a recognition card. If a idiosyncratic already has an Apple account, the institution whitethorn usage a linked outgo method to verify that they're implicit 18. Otherwise, Apple volition automatically alteration kid information protections, including features that artifact big contented connected the web and blur messages containing nudity.

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