{"id":137758,"date":"2026-07-09T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=tlur8uvi"},"modified":"2026-07-09T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:00:01","slug":"age-rating-questionnaire-now-includes-social-media-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/09\/age-rating-questionnaire-now-includes-social-media-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Age rating questionnaire now includes social media questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/age-rating-questionnaire-now-includes-social-media-questions.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=0d2gpmml\">announced in June<\/a>, new Time Allowances in iOS&nbsp;27, iPadOS&nbsp;27, and macOS&nbsp;27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social&nbsp;Media.<\/p>\n<p>To support this, the age rating questionnaire in App&nbsp;Store&nbsp;Connect now includes questions about your app\u2019s social media capabilities. A social media capability is defined as the ability to redistribute, amplify, or interact with user-generated content through a social feed or similar discovery method. The Time Allowance category for Social Media is based on whether your app or game offers social media capabilities, regardless of the app category selected in App&nbsp;Store&nbsp;Connect. Apps with these capabilities will display a new Social Media content descriptor on their App&nbsp;Store product page. If you indicate that your app or game includes social media capabilities but they are disabled for anyone under 13, it won\u2019t be included in the Time Allowance category for Social Media for users under 13. For more details, refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=0d2gpmml\">Introducing Time Allowances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can review and answer these questions starting today. As previously shared, beginning in September&nbsp;2026, responses will be required when submitting new apps or updates to the App&nbsp;Store, or when submitting apps for notarization for alternative distribution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/help\/app-store-connect\/manage-app-information\/set-an-app-age-rating\/\">Set an app <span class=\"icon icon-after icon-chevronright nowrap\">age rating<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/help\/app-store-connect\/reference\/app-information\/age-ratings-values-and-definitions\/\">Age rating values <span class=\"icon icon-after icon-chevronright nowrap\">and definitions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As announced in June, new Time Allowances in iOS&nbsp;27, iPadOS&nbsp;27, and macOS&nbsp;27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social&nbsp;Media. To support this, the age rating questionnaire in App&nbsp;Store&nbsp;Connect now includes questions about your app\u2019s social media capabilities. A social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137758","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\/137758","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=137758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}