Apple Will Start Mandating Age Requirements For Dating Apps

They will apply to apps that allow AI companion relationships, as well.

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Apple will start asking developers more questions about their apps to help the company ensure that their age ratings accurately reflect their content. Specifically, it will add new content descriptor questions to App Store Connect, the company's web-based management platform for developers. One of the new descriptors will require them to declare whether their app shares the real-world location of the user with another person or group. The other one will require them to disclose whether their app has features, which enable dating "between real people and/or a virtual companion that engages a user in sexual or romantic content."

All apps declared to have dating and relationship content will get a minimum age rating of 18+. That means they will not appearin the App Store for kids under 18 if their parents or guardians have...

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