Share your age range with apps
Age Range for Apps shares helpful information with apps, so they can provide an age-appropriate experience for you or your children.
What’s Age Range for Apps?
An app may ask for permission to access the age range on your Apple Account. Your birthday determines this age range. If you decide to share your age range, the app may use that information to provide content and features that are appropriate for that age range. Sharing an age range is your choice, and sharing your age range keeps your actual age and birthday private.
In some states, countries, or regions, age range is always shared with developers.
If you can’t use an app until you set up Age Range for Apps
Children and teens might have to share their age range in order to use an app. Your parent or guardian will need to help you set up Age Range for Apps. This will help provide experiences appropriate for your age while you use the app.
Ask your parent or guardian to set up Age Range for Apps in their Family Sharing settings.
Choose if you want to always share
To share an age range with apps, you might need to update to the latest version of iOS or iPadOS, or the latest version of macOS.
Manage your account
Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad, or System Settings on your Mac.
Choose [your name].
Choose Personal Information, then choose Age Range for Apps.
Tap or click Share with Apps to choose whether any app can always access your age range, or if it should ask permission first.
Manage a child or teen in your Family Sharing group
If you’re a Family Sharing organiser or parent/guardian, open Settings on your iPhone or iPad, or System Settings on your Mac.
Choose Family, then choose the child or teen account you want to edit.
Choose Age Range for Apps. If the account has Screen Time turned on, you might need to choose Personal Information and then tap Age Range for Apps.
Tap or click Share with Apps to choose whether any app can always access the child or teen account’s age range, or if it should ask permission first.
If this is set to Ask First, the child or teen can choose whether or not they want to share when each app asks permission.
If you don’t see these settings, you might have to update your device to the latest version of iOS or iPadOS, or the latest version of macOS.
View which apps have accessed Age Range for Apps
View for your own account
Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad, or System Settings on your Mac.
Choose [your name].
Choose Personal Information, then choose Age Range for Apps.
If an app has asked access to your age range, it appears here. An app with Shared next to it previously accessed your age range. An app with Not Shared next to it previously asked for your age range, but you denied it.
Tap or click an app to view more details, including the last date the app requested access. If your account aged up into a new age range or you previously denied access, you may be able to choose Share Age Range Again. That app will ask for access to your age range the next time you open it.
View for a child or teen in your Family Sharing group
If you’re a Family Sharing organiser or parent/guardian, open Settings on your iPhone or iPad, or System Settings on your Mac.
Choose Family, then choose the child or teen account you want to edit.
Choose Age Range for Apps. If the account has Screen Time turned on, you might need to choose Personal Information and then tap Age Range for Apps.
If an app has asked to access the child or teen account’s age range, it is shown here. An app with Shared next to it previously accessed the age range. An app with Not Shared next to it previously asked for the age range, but the child or teen denied it.
Tap or click an app to view more details, including the last date the app requested access. If the account aged up into a new age range or the child or teen previously denied access, you may be able to choose Share Age Range Again. That app will ask for access to the age range the next time the child or teen account opens it.