You forgot to mention that the (provisional) driving licence can be issued to 16 year olds. Full (A1) licence to 17 year olds. It's a proper, full licence, jus

You forgot to mention that the (provisional) driving licence can be issued to 16 year olds. Full (A1) licence to 17 year olds. It's a proper, full licence, just for a limited power/displacement. Looks proper, "adult". I don't have iPhone in my household but but I'd very happily ask my nearly 17yo child to try to pass as an adult using their licence to point to the utter stupidity of this. And to address your last point - the difference is not that Apple is barring adults from the huge portion of the internet (and no, I'm not talking about porn, to address inevitable strawman) unless they submit to the intrusive check. What proves for me it's malicious, subversive pattern is that it hasn't been widely advertised. The right way to do it would be to NOT turn it on, but allow to switch "I'm not an adult" option in the settings and then require age check to turn it off. It would require a parent to do it in their child's phone ONCE. The way it is now is stupid, hostile, so utterly British Government in a way. Great job.