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
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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.
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.
As a German not having a mandatory government ID is so weird to me.
I don’t like to bring it up, but it was the Germans that convinced us to get rid of them.
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