Apple introduces new child safety initiatives, including age-checks for apps

On Thursday, Apple unveiled a series of fresh child safety initiatives aimed at assisting parents and developers in crafting a safer environment for kids and teens on Apple devices. Alongside simpler child account setup, parents can now share their children’s age details, which app developers can tap into to deliver content tailored to specific age groups. The App Store is also rolling out a refined set of age ratings, offering both developers and users a clearer picture of an app’s suitability for different ages.
Third-party app product pages on the App Store will get a makeover too, featuring extra details to steer parental choices—think indicators about user-generated content, ads, or built-in parental controls within the app itself. According to Apple, these changes will start reaching parents and developers later this year.
This year, Apple will introduce new features that:
• Make it even easier for parents to set up Child Accounts that underlie many of our parental controls.
• Put parents in control by allowing them to share information about the age range of their kids with apps to enable developers to provide only age-appropriate content, all without needing to share their birthdate or other sensitive information.
• And further enhance parents’ insight and control over their kids’ experiences by updating our age ratings, adding more useful information on product pages, and making browsing safer on the App Store
Read more in Apple’s “Helping Protect Kids Online” document here.
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple provides parents and app developers with the best, most comprehensive tools for helping to enhance child safety while safeguarding privacy.
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