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alleging the platform damages young users' mental health and they're not the only ones who think it. It turns out that Apple apparently privately pressed TikTok to raise its age recommendations from 12 and over to 17 and over,. The comments from Apple showed up in South Carolina 's compliant against TikTok and were supposed to be redacted but, oops, they were accidentally made public.
Let's dive into what was said, shall we? In 2022, Apple had a team review TikTok's age rating and found the platform had"frequent or intense mature or suggestive content." Apple added,"We hope you will consider making the necessary changes to follow the App Store Review Guidelines and will resubmit." We don't know all the details of what Apple requested as only some of the redacted content was made public.
Yet, there's plenty of evidence in these momentarily not-redacted documents about TikTok being not so age appropriate. In fact, outsiders and TikTok's own employees found issue with what the company did to reduce content like profanity and eating disorders. The former was found in one out of every 50 pop-up alerts that minors in the US and UK received within a month's time.
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