IsEligibleForAgeFeatures behavior in Brazil

Thank you for your post and your patience. There are many other developers here with more extensive knowledge of this subject. Please review the two resources we have published regarding your questions, as well as the FAQ. If your questions are not addressed there, please let me know, and I will ensure that someone takes over to address them and add them to the FAQ.

https://developer.apple.com/kids/

https://developer.apple.com/support/age-assurance

Albert Pascual
  Worldwide Developer Relations.

@DTS Engineer None of the above linked documents answer any of these 4 questions.

Based on https://developer.apple.com/documentation/declaredagerange/requesting-people-share-their-age-range-with-your-app we can answer questions 1 and 4 ourselves. We can expect that for all users with Brazilian App Store accounts:

• Before the date, isEligibleForAgeFeatures will return false.
• After the date, isEligibleForAgeFeatures will return true.

For Question 3, the Brazilian law says:

This Law shall enter into force six months after the date of its publication.

And I think it was published on September 17, 2025, so it should be effective March 17, 2026.

I don't know anything about Question 2's answer.

Thanks a lot!

Re "we can answer questions 1 and 4 ourselves": eventually yes, but we don't have clarity from Apple today, and there's no way to find out from sandbox testing or otherwise today.

I agree IsEligibleForAgeFeatures will return true for Brazil. I didn't phrase it right, but my question for 1 is more on, after "true", what's the age range for someone who hasn't picked anything. I would assume the answer is "nil" as if they have declined, but a prompt may be reasonable too.

I was reading the documentation and it states that regulated regions will enforce the age sharing, so for those regions, there won't be a popup (at least that's what I understood), since the law enforces users to share that information.

I don't know if this is true for all regions that are regulated, but my understanding of the docs, is that if isEligibleForAgeFeature is true, then no prompt for the user is needed... I was just thinking about a way know if we need to ask, or if the information would come right away, because that will matter for me to measure impact here.

Thank you for your inquiry. Unfortunately, I am unable to provide information on future dates. We have an API that is designed to cover the law as it becomes effective, not prior. However, I am not involved in that team. When the law becomes effective, please let us know if the API does not cover any of the requirements from the country and the correct team will take care of resolving any issue.

Albert Pascual
  Worldwide Developer Relations.

Hi @tomatomato, @jarrodlombardo-eventbase, @raphaelkohncr,

Thanks for your continued patience. Before I begin, the answer below applies to current regional requirements as of the iOS 26.4 release, and should also be used as guidance for any upcoming regional regulations.

You wrote:

​1. What's the return value of IsEligibleForAgeFeatures for a Brazilian user who has NOT touched the age range feature at all, thus hasn't picked one of the three options?

The intended usage of isEligibleForAgeFeatures is to determine whether associated laws or regulations may apply to your app based on the person's region and account settings.

If your app is eligible for age-gated features and needs to support age assurance for the current user, the property returns true; otherwise, it returns false. It's a simple boolean value—if you require more granularity for the specific regulatory requirements, use requiredRegulatoryFeatures as well.

Next, you wrote:

​2. How can we test these cases? From the updated sandbox doc, there's more information on declined/approved, will those the same behaviors as a future Brazilian user? The doc used to say Texas, now it doesn't say any region.

The intended use case for the sandbox settings to test age assurance-related API invocations and the expected results of the mock user data within your apps. It is not expected to be used to mock the end-to-end experience provided by the system, or the complete user experience.

Then, you wrote:

​3. On which date will Apple START to return true for IsEligibleForAgeFeatures for Brazilian users? I cannot find the exact date anywhere.

Your app will receive true for isEligibleForAgeFeatures when the user's Apple Account meets the eligibility requirements of the regulated region. The heuristics of eligibility may differ across local laws and regulations.

Lastly, you wrote:

​4. Will ALL of Brazil return true overnight, or is there some ramp up that developers need to be aware of?

Use a combination of isEligibleForAgeFeatures and requiredRegulatoryFeatures to determine your app's obligations. For more information, please see my answer on the post below:

isEligibleForAgeFeatures and different legal requirements for different regions

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/815952?answerId=880880022#880880022

Cheers,

Paris X Pinkney |  WWDR | DTS Engineer