UK users- Age Verification Gone wrong!

UK users- Age Verification

The ios 26.4 update was sprung without warning on UK users.

Having accepted the now mandatory age- verification (Apple states- to comply with UK law), eg a ‘credit card check’ , which gets accepted and then disappears,

*How do we check that’s actually worked and what age APPLE, or the device NOW thinks we are?*

Despite being well over 18, I was recently blocked from making any phone calls to anyone not already in my contacts book! Unlwss I got parental a

(both are long dead!). This cannot be right, but it seems some of the age related restrictions were now blocking phone calls (primarily what a phone is for?).

so, how do we check the age the system now, currently, thinks we are and how do we alter it if it’s wrong?

thank you