Let me see some ID: age verification is spreading across the internet
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Apple is going to require developers to say if their app or game includes “social media capabilities.”
“This includes the ability to redistribute, amplify, or interact with user-generated content through a social feed or similar discovery method that visibly spreads content to many users,” Apple says.
If an app has these “social media capabilities,” it will affect the app’s age rating and it’s measured in Screen Time’s Time Allowance. Whether or not those capabilities are available to users under 13 will also affect the rating and Time Allowance measurement.
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