Dear Apple,
while implementing Declared Age Range API in my app, I've noticed a mistake in documentation: the isEligibleForAgeFeatures property is marked 26.0+ in documentation, but 26.2+ in Xcode, which ultimately leads to inability to use it with OS below 26.2.
Moreover, I'm thoroughly confused by this quote from documentation:
This flag returns true on iOS and iPadOS based on a person’s eligibility and always returns false on macOS.
It leads me to two questions:
- Is it possible to use Declared Age Range API for macOS apps? Will it be possible to use it in future?
- Will there be any changes regarding this matter in a meantime (especially after Jan 1st)?
- If yes - when should we expect these changes?
- If no - why this API declares macOS 26+ support alongside iOS/iPadOS, if it simply doesn't work for macOS now?
As of now, my iOS app works flawlessly with given API (on iOS 26.2) while macOS app returns isEligibleForAgeFeatures = false and requestAgeRange request always throws AgeRangeService.Error.notAvailable.
Also, does it mean that one should not use isEligibleForAgeFeatures boolean while implementing Declared Age Range API for apps below iOS 26.2 (I mean 26.0+)? Or implementing given API for iOS 26.2+ is a sufficient way to go? So shouldn't the whole API be marked as 26.2+?
The minimum iOS version in my app is 16.0 and minimum macOS version is 13.0 anyway, so the significant part of users is left out of these updates, but the main goal here is legal compliance.