InnerworldMar 26

Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure

https://lemmy.world/post/44753823

Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44753763 [https://lemmy.world/post/44753763] > Apple Support [https://support.apple.com/en-gb/126788] page

Show threadmjrMar 26
And Apple don’t accept passports as ID, so complaints are rolling in from non-drivers without current credit cards, who tend to be younger and in big cities. Apple just took a big shot at their foot.
Show threadwewbullMar 26
No, they gave the government another reason for a mandatory government id scheme. Something deeply unpopular with a large part of the population, but that Starmer is devoted to.
Show threadTywèleMar 26
As a German not having a mandatory government ID is so weird to me.
Show threadwewbull
I don’t like to bring it up, but it was the Germans that convinced us to get rid of them.
Mar 26 at 12:27pmWeb
Show threadmjrMar 26
And now you have once, do you think you’ve got away with it, Basil?