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Alex Blake

iPhone age verification is now nagging people who live outside affected regions — but the mystery has been solved

A man looking frustrated at his mobile phone.
  • A user got bugged to verify their identity on their new iPhone
  • They shouldn’t have needed to, as their local laws didn't require this
  • The culprit was their iPhone, which was imported from the UK

Apple has just jacked up its prices across the board, and while the iPhone is safe for now, many users are wondering if it’s only a matter of time before Apple’s best iPhones feel the weight of price rises. If that sounds familiar, you might have snapped up a second-hand iPhone in a bid to get ahead of the game — but that could leave you falling foul of an annoying, unforeseen consequence.

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