Apple bietet britischen Benutzern in der Betaversion von iOS 26.4 die Altersverifizierung

Seem to be using the gambling company method though, which is good:

I.E. they know your address, name and payment method already if you’ve bought stuff, so they can use that to get a report from a credit referencing agency to confirm your age.

I’m far less concerned about Apple (who provide the OS) doing this than I am about random websites, but it would be nice to see the ability for apps and website to just . . . confirm I’m old enough rather than needing me to send them my passport or all the other information they need.

The EU’s 0 trust method of age verification is vastly superior to both though.

Having to submit your ID or face to corporations to *use the operating system of your own device* is just dystopian. Scanning your credit card instead is something, but come the fuck on. You can’t *download apps*, like, at all, without handing over this information? Not even just restricted to non-adult ones? That’s absurd.

I’m sure they’ll claim it’s all processing on your device and isn’t sent home, but even if that’s the case, it’s fucking ridiculous.

What’s with this? It’s just a whole, global push at the moment to make the entire internet and any common way to access it or use technology at all require you to fork over your information so they can keep tabs on you, I mean, *to protect the children.* It’s creepy as shit.

Makes me think, „what is coming that they want to preestablish mass control of who gets to see and access what for?“

Can’t read the article but it seems like this is just to verify age for Apple’s own (age restricted) services? I don’t have a problem with that – they’ve had my payment card details for twenty years, they know the ages of my children, I don’t see any new problem there. But actually I’m hoping they go farther. Using face id on device I can authenticate for various third party apps and services now with all the private stuff happening on the phone – so why not extend that to age verification and allow face id to confirm to third parties that I’m a grown adult? No more of that information being captured by third parties.

Privacy concerns aside, doesn’t apple already have this information if you’re an apple wallet user?

Would make a lot more sense if they did just do the age verif on the OS level for phones and computers instead of thinking it makes sense to do it separately for every site and app.just do it once on set up and thats it

Bye bye apple, and take your overpriced iPhones with you.

Hey if Apple has my info why can’t it help verify me to watch porn again? Seriously if Apple set up a system where I can be verified through porn sites I will buy an Apple Watch I promise.

>Apple says users who don’t confirm their age “will not be able to download and purchase apps or make in-app purchases.”

>[…] Apple notes that it may automatically confirm that users are over 18 using the payment method connected to their account, or the age of their account. Otherwise, Apple may ask users to scan their credit cards to confirm their age. One Reddit user says that they were also given the option to scan their ID. 

Seems sensible, tbh. 

Has anyone been affected by this? beta 2 seems to be a test that users can opt into.