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Texas will now require an age-related verification for IOS use due to the state law, which was accepted against desires Apple.
On Tuesday, Governor Texas Greg Ebbott signed a law that requires Apple and Google to test the age of the App Store users. If the user is under the age of 18, their account should be connected with the parent or guardian, which then must approve each application load.
Apple attempts to oppose the account, which included a phone call from the General Director of Apple Tim Cook to Governor Ebbotta, apparently failed. As Reuters noted, the responsibility of the App Store in Texas will enter into force on January 1, 2026. A similar bill in Utah has already adopted and entered into force on May 7, 2025.
legislators argue that the act itself was created to protect children and prevent access to content at an inappropriate age. It is intended to give parents more control over the activity of their children on the Internet and observe the fact that minors cannot legally agree to the conditions of the application.
Before the bill was signed, Apple launched six lobbyists in Texas and financed local advertising campaigns, which stated that the bill was “supported by porn sites, among other things.
Apple argued that the bill would force it to collect and store confidential identifiers or other identifying information from all users, and not just children. The arguments of the iPhone manufacturer, however, were not enough to prevent the law on liability in the application store did not become a law in Texas.
, while Apple criticized the APP Store accounting law, some companies expressed its support. META, SNAP and X applauded the bill, which complies with their previous statements.
“Parents want the universal store to check their child’s age and provide them with permission to download applications in accordance with confidentiality,” said social networks. “The App Store is the best place for him, and more than a third of the US states entered accounts in which the central role played by applications play.”
The Utah state law and the accounting law in the Texas Application store are part of a wider push of the state legislative bodies to regulate technological companies in the absence of federal actions. Soon they can become a model for similar efforts in the United States, and companies such as Apple and Google know about this.
In February 2025, Apple published in a white document describing the functions of providing age that it will be implemented. Through the new API of the developer, Apple wanted to facilitate the parents to configure the App Store accounts for their children, but it is still unknown whether the company will need additional measures to satisfy the account requirements.
