Apple ID for 9+ game (Among Us)

Hi there PhillipKebab,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. It sounds like you have a 9 year old that wants to use Sign in with Apple. This feature is not available for children under 13. Learn more here: What is Sign in with Apple?

There may be other options to sign in to the game or play without signing in. You can contact the app developer for further help with that: How to contact an app developer.

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It’s not apple’s doing, it’s the app developer. The developer set the app login to only be available to 13+ age accounts. Someone else posted a link to contact the developer and that is the correct direction for your complaint. Minecraft setup their app to allow iOS users under 13 to login with their Apple ID and Among Us has the same ability, they just didn’t.

I am able to log in and I said I was born in 2000 and it worked

It seems to me a very poor design choice from the Among Us programmers: they created an account system and a key objectives is the safeguard of children; then they used a feature (using the Apple ID to create the Among Us account) that is unavailable to children's IDs by design. All this while plenty of other platforms (e.g. Roblox, Minecraft) have no problem dealing with accounts for children on Apple iOS devices.

The worst of this, the (unnecessary) inability of creating Among Us children accounts on iOS will ultimately push end users to lie about their age, thus contradicting one of they objectives of the Among Us account system, the safeguard of children.

Not much to complain with Apple here, or for Apple to fix: it's Among Us developers that got this completely wrong.

So this is an issue with the app. The app developers developed it as a 9+ game. Then they chose to make the only sign in option one that requires the player to be 13+. What did Apple do wrong here? I’m experiencing this issue but I don’t expect Apple to fix it. They didn’t make it impossible for anyone under 13 to sign in to the game. I’m going straight to the App Developer, the place where my issue originated.

The app developer doesn’t allow accounts under 13 to sign in. That fault belongs to the app developer, not Apple. The app developer will need to push an update to allow younger Apple accounts to log in. Until the developer does that, there is nothing Apple can do.

No. This reply is NOT helpful at all as there is no other way for my child to sign in to the game and it does not appear that the app developer has any intention of creating an alternate sign up option.

Apple is essentially removing my autonomy to decide for myself what my child can and can’t sign up for. This is ridiculous.

This is definitely a failure of both Apple and Innersloth-- Apple's broken policy where they approve a 9+ app where you can't sign in unless you're 13+, and there's support for child accounts for "sign in with apple" (which is the root of the problem), and then Innersloth published this update with non-functional security settings for child accounts.

I hope one or the other will fix this.

Not really, To sign-in with your Apple ID you have to be 13+ anyways. So therefore Innersloth Just set it to sign-in with your Apple ID.

I’m 13 years old but I still can’t login

Not really because it’s the only option to Sign In with Apple and now kids aren’t able to sign in because you can’t be under 13 and I think it’s just outrageous how it is.

Same here , this is annoying in the extreme my kids love this game and I play it with them. Now apple are in control of what they can and can’t do. This should be up to the parents to grant access or deny it not apple.

I have the same problem with two girls (8 &11) about to mutiny over this. We play it together all the time and I don’t understand why a control which was introduced by the developers to crack down on negative community issues within the game would now stop them from having control over their accounts when their mother is more than happy for them to play it.

PLEASE allow a workaround. I can already approve all sorts of requests from my account for them, why can’t I be able to override this when I feel it’s appropriate!?!?