zimpenfish
Hilarious - iOS 26.4 now requires 18+ age verification to twiddle certain settings (thanks UKGOV, you gibbering bunch of cholesterol ridden bigots) which gives you the options of 1) a credit card (don't have one), 2) a driving licence (don't have one) or 3) a national ID card (don't have one.)

Which means, thanks to the spluttering love juice we laughingly call a "government", I'm now partially locked out of some of my phone's settings despite being, and I promise you I'm not lying, considerably older than 18.

In fact, it wasn't even the same damn century when I was 18. You mouth frothing curtain rails.

#UKGov #Apple #iOS26IsHorrificallyBadInManyWays #AgeVerificationIsDumbass
Mar 11 at 10:53amWeb
Show threadMark WhybirdMar 11
@zimpenfish It may not apply to you anyway, but I wonder if they can also apply the logic that “this very Apple ID has existed 18+ years”?
Show threadzimpenfishMar 11

@whybird It does apply to me, yeah - just about 20 years of the same Apple ID that’s spent tens of thousands directly on apple.com or in Apple stores using credit cards (a long time ago) and debit cards in the same name. (I’m pretty sure I also applied for the rolling “new phone every year” thing which involved a credit check!) I made sure to make these points, quite strongly, in my feedback about the system.

(But I guess if Apple aren’t allowed to set the verification criteria in the UK, none of that helps. Knowing the unbounded depths of UKGOV incompetence, it wouldn’t surprise me that they’ve specifically mandated a bunch of verification criteria that not even valid people can pass.)

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