Apparently, even companies with massive budgets do horrible customer communication:

Apple sent no email. Included no mention of age verification in the iOS 26.4 release notes it shared publicly.

What adds insult to injury here is that this is Apple doing more than is required by the law:

Apple frames the verification as compliance with the UK’s 

, and the prompt tells users that “UK law requires you to confirm you are an adult.” That’s untrue. The Online Safety Act targets platforms and adult content sites, not operating systems or app stores. Device-level age verification isn’t a legal requirement. Apple chose to go beyond what the law demands and then told users the law made them do it.

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Apple UK Age Verification Chaos: Users Facing Forced Content Filters

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Apparently, even companies with massive budgets do horrible customer communication:

> Apple sent no email. Included no mention of age verification in the iOS 26.4 release notes it shared publicly.

What adds insult to injury here is that this is Apple doing more than is required by the law:

> Apple frames the verification as compliance with the UK’s [Online Safety Act](https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-age-verification-privacy-backlash), and the prompt tells users that “UK law requires you to confirm you are an adult.” That’s untrue. The Online Safety Act targets platforms and adult content sites, not operating systems or app stores. Device-level age verification isn’t a legal requirement. Apple chose to go beyond what the law demands and then told users the law made them do it.