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Apple forcing Age Verification on UK devices

What do you expect!!!
There is no parenting any more...I hear of kids going to primary school that are not toilet trained...
parents are leaving the responsibility of bringing up kids to the establishment.
You see that on the news...."oh, my son or daughter killed themselves by doing a stunt or took their own life...blaming this, that and the other"
The question is...where were you parents?
 
Si Titor said:
Not sure about that, I think they just read his book and thought ohh thats a good idea!
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Disclosure of the method.
The laws of the universe state they have to tell you what they are going to do, and if you don't resist, it is taken as consent.
 
zlinuk said:
I can't see the problem tbh, all they want to establish is whether the device user is over 18 i.e. an adult or under 18 i.e. a child, the process for me was unintrusive and took around 5 seconds.

If I had an angsty teen that was secretly viewing suicide material or sending iffy images to strangers I would be pleased if Apple were able to flag it to someone or try to steer them away from it.
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The issue is that the British government wanted to run their own digital ID app on Apple Silicon. This app would require access to your Apple ID and could be accessed by the British government. Apple doesn't want this, so they chose to implement their own age verification system to comply with the requirements of the Online Safety Act. The British government doesn't want this because the Online Safety Act isn't really about protecting children; it's about control and monitoring of the population.

The question is, who do you trust? Personally, I trust Apple to be self-serving and greedily protect their business model and profitability, far more than I trust any government to act in my interests. I don't like the way Apple does business, but I would rather trust my digital ID to them than the British state ...and whichever political party is in charge of it.
 
My iPad is running happily without that update. I'll hang on until things don't work anymore and probably change it for an android tablet.
 
Historyman said:
Both myself, my wife and my son have been Apple users for many years, but we had to supply the proof of ID at that update.
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My wife and I have both done the update on our iPhone's and iPad's and neither of us have had to supply proof of ID. I am the owner of our Apple/iTunes account and everything runs as it did before the update with the biometric security systems, I've had the account for 24 years and the only time I've had to enter this kind of security info was when I opened the account. Periodically, on iTunes, I have to enter my password but that is the only security info I've been asked for.
 
I’ve had an iPhone since the 3GS although most would live through about 4 gens so I went 3GS, 7, 11 and now 15.
I used to justify the cost spread over 4 years but I’m getting a little sick of what these things are doing to people generally.
I’ll make this one last as long as I can and then I think I’d be happy going back to something super basic. I work in IT and I’m still sick of tech.
Only thing I will stand by is my MacBook. Use it 8 hours a day not including personal use and it never fails to work without issues so that’s totally worth it in my opinion given the countless hours wasted in the past to windows updates, corrupted boot files and all that nonsense
 
C220w205 said:
Both my iPhone and iPad are running iOS 26.4.2 and at no time during or since the update have I been asked to provide any kind of verification id. Both devices, from day one of ownership, have been using biometrics to access them and none of the websites I use have asked for proof of id outside of the normal access controls.
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You will find that it will block access to certain features or websites...
 
CJD said:
Except it doesn’t really!
Your £150 will probably work perfectly well for what you want to use it for, but it certainly won’t do everything thing a new iPhone will.
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Yeah, right keep telling yourself that, although only £150 it is a new phone, bought last year, and I'm IT savvy enough to know what my phone can and can't do....and how to do it...
 
pjgtech said:
Yeah, right keep telling yourself that, although only £150 it is basically a new phone, bought last year, and I'm IT savvy enough to know what my phone can and can't do....and how to do it...
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Hey, if you’re happy with your phone that’s great and I’m happy for you.
But if you think it can do everything the latest iPhone can do you’re deluded.
But hey ho everyone to themselves.
 
Just did mine and when setting it up all it said was "Sign into your apple account" which I did. It then said "The time you have held the account is proof of age" and verified me automatically.
 
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