The Federal Trade Commission is encouraging companies to adopt age verification technologies by announcing it will not enforce a children’s online privacy law against certain websites that collect and use minors’ personal data in order to verify their ages.

Apple announced a new age verification tool in Utah and Louisiana, as well as Brazil, Australia and Singapore to ensure users are 18+ before downloading certain apps.

The latest iOS 26.4 developer beta has introduced age verification, although so far only for the UK. You can postpone setting it up, but the whole process is absurdly fast to do.