Tracking across apps age requirement

Hello Brenasia,

We see you have a question regarding the age requirement to enable the “Allow Apps to Request to Track” setting, if we're understanding things correctly. We can help provide info on that for you.

This page here will have the requirements, including age: If an app asks to track your activity

As the page notes, users with child accounts or under the age of 18 will not be able to enable the ability to allow apps to request to track. However, as the snippet at the very bottom notes, what constitutes a child account may differ per region.

In situations where it's disabled due to age of the user, the page will mention that "all apps that request to track are denied permission by default".

We hope that helps out.

Take care.

Brenasia,

If the Apple ID was made within the last 3 days, that may be another reason you'd be unable to enable the tracking.

If that doesn't apply, and the issue persists, we'd recommend following up with Apple Support for further investigation. You can start the support request with the help of this link: Get Support

Take care.

Brenasia,

Thanks for the additional info. We note you mentioned the profile isn't connected to the school or university. Are you referring to the Apple ID with that?

Also, do you currently have any profiles or Mobile Device Management installed on the device? You can check for those in Settings > General > Profiles & Device Management. If this option doesn't appear, it'll usually mean there aren't any profiles or Mobile Device Management installed at the moment.

With regards to age, be sure to also double-check the date of birth of the Apple ID you're currently using on the device, just to ensure that's listed accurately there. Details on that here: Update the date of birth associated with your Apple ID

Be sure to also ensure you're using the latest available iOS version for the device. At the moment, that will be iOS 14.8. You can double-check in Settings > General > About for the installed version.

Cheers.

Not worth it.

But try making a backup of your iPhone, set your iPhone up as a new device (don't use your backup yet), don't add your email address in mail, and see if the switch works.

Why do you want to do this?