More and more organisations are introducing ways to protect younger users from encountering harmful content. Apple is also joining this list and is introducing a new Age Rating system for its apps. By doing this, people can easily identify apps that aren’t suitable for a younger audience. Keep reading to discover more.
Apple App Store Receives Overhaul and Introduces Age Ratings
Earlier this month, Apple announced that they’re going to be adding new ratings to Apps in their App Store in addition to the 4+ and 9+ that are already live. These updates will go live whenever the company releases the next version of iOS, which will be iOS 26.
App publishers will have the chance to adjust the age rating of their apps accordingly. This way, people know whenever an app is 18+ or suitable for younger users. The apps will be assigned a certain age rating after the developers or publishers have answered a questionnaire. This quiz will ask questions about the things you can do within the app and the different content topics that people can access.
The change will help parents to keep their children off apps that contain content that might be harmful to them. The announcement was made around the time that the UK implemented its Online Safety Act.
The iOS 26 Public Beta Is Out Now
iOS 26 will be the biggest change since the introduction of iOS 7. It will introduce a completely new “liquid-glass” theme and will look more like visionOS. The full version of the software will come out with the newest iPhone; however, the public beta is already available.
If you want to upgrade your phone, you can do this by heading to your system settings. But instead of following normal update procedures, you’ll have to turn on Beta updates. Then the new public beta becomes available to install. We do have to warn you that this new version will have more bugs and might even crash a few times. It is not the full Apple update like you’re used to… yet. If you don’t want to mess with a system, you can just wait until the real version becomes available.