Is it possible to change my incorrect age on iCloud?

so my dad and I were told that it is impossible to change my age on the iCloud because it says “I’m 12”. A few years ago, I got the iPhone 13, then my dad set up the iPhone, and when setting up my iCloud, he accidentally put the age of my brother at the time, so now I’m 14 and I have to now wait until I’m 15 so I can say that I’m 13 on my iCloud, I literally have to wait another year until I’m “13 years old” on my iCloud to change my age to be 15. And we are told that theres nothing anyone can really do about it anymore, I get that some people may not have the power to do it themselves, but surely theres one way, and if there isn’t one then I guess it is what it is. But we have tried everything. If there is a theoretical solution to this, please let me know. So this is why I am quite limited to things such as signing up for the developer program and using apple wallet, **** I can’t even see it on my iPhone except when you go to the App store.


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Posted on Jul 9, 2024 3:04 PM

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Jul 10, 2024 10:05 AM in response to Steph9688

If the age is set to less than 13 years old, only Apple Support can change it. Nobody else can.


click here ➜ Update the birth date associated with your Apple ID - Apple Support


If Apple Support has said they cannot change it, then there's nothing else that can be done but wait until it ages and can then be updated.


With that said, why does it matter what age it has set?

Are you trying to add a credit or debit card to your Apple Wallet?

Are you trying to leave Family Sharing?

The Apple ID's birth date / age, does not affect anything else but the 2 items above.


If your trying to download apps for a older age, that is controlled in Screen Time Settings, and has nothing to do with the Apple ID birth date.

Jul 10, 2024 2:41 PM in response to Steph9688

As I said, the Apple ID age does not limit anything else. What is not fun about he age? It should not prevent you fro doing anything other than those 2 things. And Betas are an entirely different issue.


Its really not recommended to participate in Betas, unless you know what you are doing and are ready to deal with issues stemming from the usage of betas on your own and are prepared to have a bricked unusable device. Betas often will have issues, some of them device breaking and Apple will not help you. You will be on your own with such issues., and may need to restore the device to factory settings and not use any backup, losing any and all data on the device. Betas are not a wya ot have fun or access OS versions early. They are meant as a development tool.


Apple offers no support or help for betas unless you are an actual registered developer, and for that you need to be 18 or older.


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Jul 12, 2024 5:14 PM in response to Phil0124

Thats so gnarly dude, but yes maybe having more options for things such as using apple wallet and participating in betas of future iPhone Operating Systems would be nice. So does that answer your un necessary question? Because I see no need for you to know my business with this. I mean if you aren’t into anything like developer betas and such or family dynamic stuff on you iPhone, would you want to be under 13 when you are older than 13 alone? I would assume not, so if that is something that you wouldn’t appreciate, you should consider the fact that many others don’t like it. I see that others aren’t super happy about it either.

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