{"id":137286,"date":"2026-05-21T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=yrrb45pw"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:01:22","slug":"upcoming-changes-to-age-ratings-in-australia-and-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/21\/upcoming-changes-to-age-ratings-in-australia-and-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming changes to age ratings in Australia and Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/upcoming-changes-to-age-ratings-in-australia-and-vietnam.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Starting June 18, 2026, age ratings on the App&nbsp;Store will be updated in Australia and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 15+ age rating will no longer be available on the App&nbsp;Store in Australia. Apps currently rated 15+ with the following content descriptors will be updated to 16+:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unrestricted web access<\/li>\n<li>Frequent medical or treatment information<\/li>\n<li>Loot boxes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new rating will appear on your app\u2019s product page in Australia. Please ensure your responses to the age rating questionnaire in App&nbsp;Store&nbsp;Connect accurately reflect your app\u2019s content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vietnam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To align with Article 38 of Vietnam Decree 147, apps available on the App Store in Vietnam will require a region-specific age rating. Based on your age rating questionnaire responses in App&nbsp;Store&nbsp;Connect, your app will receive one of four ratings (00+(all&nbsp;ages), 12+, 16+, or 18+) which will appear on its product page in Vietnam. Additional details, including age rating values, will be available in App&nbsp;Store&nbsp;Connect and <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/help\/app-store-connect\/reference\/app-information\/age-ratings-values-and-definitions\">App&nbsp;Store&nbsp;Connect Help<\/a> on June&nbsp;18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting June 18, 2026, age ratings on the App&nbsp;Store will be updated in Australia and Vietnam. Australia The 15+ age rating will no longer be available on the App&nbsp;Store in Australia. Apps currently rated 15+ with the following content descriptors will be updated to 16+: Unrestricted web access Frequent medical or treatment information Loot boxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}