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Starting next year in Texas It will require Companies like Apple and Google verify the ages of people who use their app stores Apple shared today How will compliance be done? Starting January 1, 2026, anyone trying to create a new Apple Account must confirm whether they’re over 18, and any users under 18 must join a Family Sharing group. Parents and guardians will also be required to give their consent for users under the age of 18 to download apps or make in-app purchases.
Developers will also have to make changes to comply with the law. Apple already offers a Declared age group API Which developers can implement to ask users their general age, and the API will be updated “in the coming months to provide the required age ranges for new account users in Texas,” Apple says. Apple will also launch new APIs “later this year” that “will enable developers, when they identify a significant change to their app, to invoke the system experience to allow the user to request parental consent again.”
Utah and Louisiana It has passed similar laws, and Apple says “similar requirements will go into effect later next year” in those states. Google has it too Joint guidance About how to support Google Play developers before age verification laws take effect.
Apple has backed away from its App Store age verification laws, with CEO Tim Cook Call Texas Governor Greg Abbott To try to make changes to bill SB2420 in Texas. “While we share the goal of promoting children’s online safety, we are concerned that SB2420 impacts users’ privacy by requiring the collection of sensitive and personal information to download any app, even if the user simply wants to check the weather or sports scores,” Apple says in a notice today.