{"id":137441,"date":"2026-06-03T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=sg176nne"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:00:22","slug":"update-for-apps-distributed-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/update-for-apps-distributed-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for Apps Distributed in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/update-for-apps-distributed-in-texas.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Due to a recent court ruling lifting an injunction on Texas law SB 2420, new Apple Accounts in Texas are now subject to the law, which introduced age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers. As previously <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=2ezb6jhj\">announced<\/a>, this includes age assurance and parent or guardian consent on behalf of minors under the age of 18 for downloads, Apple In-App&nbsp;Purchases, and significant changes associated with an app. Parents or guardians will also be able to revoke their consent for any app they previously approved for their child. These changes will go into effect starting June&nbsp;4,&nbsp;2026. <\/p>\n<p>Developers can request age category data for these Apple Accounts through the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/declaredagerange\/\">Declared&nbsp;Age&nbsp;Range&nbsp;API<\/a>. For significant changes, developers should use the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/PermissionKit\/SignificantAppUpdateTopic\/\">Significant&nbsp;Change&nbsp;API<\/a> under the PermissionKit framework. As a reminder, it\u2019s the developer\u2019s responsibility to determine when there\u2019s a significant change to their app. To learn about a parent or guardian\u2019s revocation of consent, the App&nbsp;Store is providing a server notification that developers can configure to receive notifications that consent has been withdrawn for their app on a child or teen\u2019s device.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Review documentation and implement the following:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Use Apple\u2019s sandbox testing environment to validate that the APIs have been implemented correctly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For the most up-to-date requirements and API references, see:<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about how you can <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/kids\/\">provide age-appropriate experiences<\/a> and safeguard privacy in your apps and games using robust features available across Apple platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a recent court ruling lifting an injunction on Texas law SB 2420, new Apple Accounts in Texas are now subject to the law, which introduced age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers. As previously announced, this includes age assurance and parent or guardian consent on behalf of minors under the age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137441","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\/137441","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=137441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}