If you update your iPhone, Apple will require you to send them a copy of your ID or credit card.
This is the latest fresh hell as a result of the Labour and Conservative Online ‘Censorship’ bill.
The phone will automatically block ‘adult’ material or websites until you submit.
@LMY746@Alexarmstrong@Apple Thank you for your reply I appreciate it, I tried apple support yesterday and every time it comes up with a forbidden message on the support page even though I am logged into my apple account! I have no idea how to sort it out now. ☹️
The verification can use the length of time you've had your Apple Account to verify age.
If you struggle, contact Apple Support and let them know it's not possible to verify your age. (Link below)
Incidentally it is the requirement set by our Government that has forced this process, not @Applegetsupport.apple.com
@pureoldskooler@Alexarmstrong You’re welcome, It certainly seems there are a lot of glitches in this verification process, I have spent most of today trying to get this sorted to no avail. The option I can see is getting a credit card which I don’t want! ☹️
@Midnightmoon110@Alexarmstrong They didn’t give me any options. It just said something like “verify now” I clicked it and it said it verified it by how long I had the account. It’s strange how so many are seeing or experiencing different things. Thanks for letting me know.
@pureoldskooler@Alexarmstrong You are lucky, I have also had my account for years but now they want age verification and I have none of the three options they give. So I am unable to verify my age!
@LMY746@Alexarmstrong@Apple I have been asked to verify after this update but I have neither a driving licence or credit card, I am now stuck with a message saying that I need to verify my age! I only have a debit card which isn’t accepted for the above purpose.
Alex, you are not reporting this correctly.
I updated all of my @Apple devices, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Watch - I was not asked once to provide any information AT ALL other than what I provided in order to use Apple Pay.
I simply received this message
“We have been able to verify your account by using existing account data”
This is reassuring as it is only Apple I trust with my personal data. I still even have my data ID protection set to ON (see below), despite the media fear mongering hysteria of last year.
BE BETTER.
@TonyB_1997@Alexarmstrong Yes, I don’t own a credit card or driving licence and I’m now left with a phone that I can’t verify, What an absolute mess this situation is!
@Alexarmstrong Is it even possible to have a functioning Apple device without a credit card attached to your Apple ID?
And if you do have that CC attached, you’ll breeze through the check.
@janekin24@Alexarmstrong I have neither a driving licence or credit card and have never used Apple Pay, As they don’t accept my passport I now have no way of verifying my age so thank you @AppleSupport and @UKParliament
@Alexarmstrong BUT they already have your card in order to use apple ID and subscriptions/apple pay. So nothing further will be needed. You just do as usual and sign in with your apple ID.
Just settling back in to my new account, quite like it, very homely. The prick who hacked my main one called me via X to "sell" me my old account back, I told him to go fuck himself.
Hank the Tank is very sick today. Was not eating yesterday but it escalated today.
Lucky the vets could come and see him from @wearehappydoggo . He just can’t relax or get comfortable and is on a drip.
Can help lots of dogs but hits different when it’s your own big baby
This is Spain… Where hundreds of thousands of ancient olive trees are being ripped out and replaced with solar panels.
Trees, bees and insects all wiped out. You know .. to save the planet 🤡
My monologue from today’s The Times at One with Andrew Neil @TimesRadio
What’s worse? To be an embarrassment? Or an irrelevance?
Well, what’s worse is to be both. How do I know? Because that’s what Britain is under Keir Starmer’s tender care as the most significant geopolitical events of recent times unfold in the Middle East.
An embarrassment and an irrelevance.
It’s what happens when you allow foreign and defence policy to be dictated by lawyers who came to prominence and riches on the international law circuit and who show little concern for the national interest.
Starmer’s default position is to do what they decree.
So, when the US/Israeli attacks on Iran began Saturday morning our PM was at pains to stress Britain was not in anyway part of the military action.
Not only that — though this he was not so keen to spell it out — he’d forbidden our most important ally from using UK bases for the assault.
He was at one, he said, with Donald Trump’s desire to stop the tyrants of Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb. He just didn’t will the means to stop it.
Was he for or against America’s latest exercise in regime change? He didn’t say.
Nor would his defence secretary. He drew the short straw and was sent into bat in the Sunday morning media round.
In a series of excruciating changes, including on this station, from which his reputation will not recover, John Healey refused to say, again and again, if the British government supported the attacks on Iran. Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper went thru the same farce this morning.
Well, it’s only the signal military action of our time. Why would you have an opinion?
As Healey prevaricated, Iran had started to retaliate by attacking almost every Gulf State, most of them our allies as well as America’s.
Suddenly it triggered in Starmer’s brain that sitting on the fence was perhaps not the best option. Especially when it looked as if the Iranians were targeting our base in Cyprus too.
So the lawyers were consulted again, naturally. And, autocue re-scripted at their direction, Starmer appeared again at the prime ministerial podium to say the US could use our bases after all — provided it was only for defensive purposes.
Those of us without the benefit of a legal education and years of experience on the well-remunerated international law circuit are struggling to see the distinction.
The US and Israel were already pummelling Iranian missile sites because they were a threat to their allies in the region. Britain did not support that.
Now Britain has decided it’s OK to pummel them from our bases. Though we won’t be doing any pummelling ourselves. And we’re still not saying if we’re in favour of the pummelling.
Canada and Australia, both with centre-left governments, have backed US military action. Britain has not. But it hasn’t condemned it either. Colour me confused.
None of this is to argue for British support or British participation. I understand why we should be wary. But it is to argue we should know where our government stands. Yet we don’t. Hence the embarrassment and the irrelevance.
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