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App Store gave 14-year-old’s account access to apps rated ‘17+’ even though it knew user’s self-declared age

A generic stock photo of the App Store on an Apple iPhone 6s.

Apple knowingly lets underage users access apps intended for adults despite having asked for and recorded their dates of birth, an investigation by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) has found.

The investigation asserts a disconnect between the information Apple knows about a user, which includes their self-declared age, and the ways it polices age restrictions on its App Store.