Texans who want to download apps will need to prove their age first.

Apple's age rating system in the App Store is not doing enough to protect children, a report claims, after a day's worth of research found a high proportion of apps deemed acceptable to children ...

Texas Can Keep Enforcing Its Age Verification Law for Mobile Apps, Supreme Court Says ...

The Supreme Court declined to stop Texas from enforcing a state law that requires app stores and developers to verify users’ ...

Despite Apple's objections, new App Store users in Texas will soon be subject to age verification, as a new state law is set to take effect on June 4. In May 2025, the Texas App Store Accountability ...

Google is pushing back against other major technology companies’ efforts to put the responsibility of age verification on the app stores, arguing the onus is on both the stores and developers to boost ...

Now that Apple has started blocking users under 18 in certain regions from downloading apps, the company has introduced new age verification tools. Those will help developers "meet their age assurance ...