Age Range for Apps & Privacy

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Age Range for Apps & Privacy

Your device uses your Apple Account information, including your birthdate, to determine the age range that can be shared with apps. A parent or guardian must enable this feature for children and teens in a family group.

Age Range for Apps is designed to protect your information and enable you to choose what you share.

• Age Range for Apps allows you to share your age range, but not your actual birthdate, with apps to help them deliver age-appropriate experiences.
• Your birthdate and country or region associated with your Apple Account are used to determine the age range you can choose to share with developers.
• Age ranges shared with apps are synced across your devices using end-to-end encryption.
• If you’re a child or teen in a family group, your parent or guardian must enable Age Range for Apps on your behalf, and can manage the configuration.
• If the age range you share with an app indicates that you’re below the age of majority in the country or region associated with your Apple Account, information on whether certain parental controls have been enabled may also be shared. Setting Up Age Range for Apps

To enable Age Range for Apps, your device uses the following Apple Account information: birthdate, country or region, and membership and role in a family group. Your device also checks the version of the device’s operating system and whether a Screen Time passcode has been enabled for you or your device.

Age Range for Apps provides three configurations for sharing an age range with apps on their request: Ask First, Always, and Never. Ask First allows you to choose on an app-by-app basis whether to share your age range. If you select Always, your age range will automatically be shared with any app that requests it, and when you select Never, your age range will not be shared with apps. Information about whether Age Range for Apps is enabled and the sharing configuration (Ask First, Always, or Never) is associated with your Apple Account and synced across devices that support the feature using end-to-end encryption.

If you’re an adult or a teen who is 13 or over (or equivalent in your country or region) and not in a family group using iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, you can enable and configure Age Range for Apps for yourself. Ask First is selected by default. You can enable Age Range for Apps and adjust your sharing preferences by going to Settings > [your name] > Personal Information > Age Range for Apps.

Children and Teens in a Family Group and Age Range for Apps

If you are a child or a teen in a family group, only the organizer or a parent/guardian in your family group (collectively, “parent/guardian”) can set up Age Range for Apps. To do so, the parent/guardian will be asked to confirm your age, which is based on the birthdate associated with your Apple Account, and then to select one of the sharing configurations.

If a parent/guardian is using iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, they can set up Age Range for Apps for you remotely on their device by going to Settings > Family > [child or teen’s name] > Personal Information > Age Range for Apps. A parent/guardian can also set up Age Range for Apps locally on your device if a Screen Time passcode has been enabled for you, by going to Settings > [your name] > Personal Information > Age Range for Apps and entering the Screen Time passcode.

For more information on Family Sharing, including the roles available for a family group such as organizer, parent/guardian, adult, and child, visit www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/family-sharing. For more information on Apple’s use of age thresholds in connection with Family Sharing, visit support.apple.com/102617. The specific age thresholds referenced below may be different for a user depending on which country or region is associated with their Apple Account.