Safe search option request

First of all, this is a user to user only forum, NOT Apple Support. You've got an ID which can be used, but I'm not sure there is any bypass if you're unwilling to use the ID. Keep in mind these requirements aren't Apple's requirements. They are mandated by country or state laws depending on where you are, like the UK, or Texas, for example. All Apple can do is give you a way to validate one's age in a manner consistent with the laws of the jurisdiction one resides. Also note that the ID, once used is NOT stored anywhere if that is the concern. It merely is used to in essence handshake with the system which validates age. But it's not stored once the handshake is made.

This is what Apple says about age verification and I have not seen any workaround to this --> If you're asked to confirm that you’re an adult - Apple Support

Requests to Apple get lost here. To be certain an Apple employee sees your issue, I invite you to take advantage of this link: Feedback - iPhone - Apple

As the driving licence info is known by the government in several departments, that genie is out of the bottle.

As you used "licence" rather than "license" I guess you are in UK like me. For goodness sake Get a credit card. They are free and easy to get

Your elected representatives decided you need to do this for reasons, and they decided what is considered proof.

Your options are to operate within the access restrictions, to obtain and provide the verification info online to Apple (they purportedly don’t keep it), or to obtain ID and put the info online with everybody else running everything else you try to access, or to convince your elected representatives to change the laws.

If I had no government identification, I’d either want and need to obtain that ID, or (if things stay on their current trends worldwide) I’d expect being blocked from voting and blocked from access to government services either already now or in the very near future, beyond the current access restrictions for age-restricted services and content.

Payment cards are currently an option for age-restriction removal. For how long that might remain an option?

Sharing an Apple Account tends to end badly as well, unrelated to the age-related access restrictions.

Johnathan Burger wrote:

“We do not have passports, credit cards or government issued ID. “

A driver’s license is a government issued ID.

But the OP is scared of Apple seeing that they are not allowed to drive a truck over 4 tons, apparently.

“We do not have passports, credit cards or government issued ID. “

A driver’s license is a government issued ID.