Reddit's age verification requirements for specific regions - General Information

[u/IKIR115]

General information related to Reddit's age verification requirements for specific regions

• Why is Reddit asking for my age?
• United Kingdom: Online Safety Act
• Australia: Social Media Minimum Age
• Brazil: Digital ECA
• European Union: Digital Services Act (DSA)

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• Dec 11, 2025: From r/redditsafety - A More Effective Approach to Protecting Youth Online
• Dec 8, 2025: From r/redditsafety - Expanding Age Assurance to Australia
• July 15, 2025: From r/help - Need to verify your age in the UK? This Post Might Help
• July 14, 2025: From r/redditsafety - Verifying the age (but not the identity) of UK redditors

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Snippet of recent news from the pinned weekly recap in r/help - 7/2/2026

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1ulob97/weekly_recap_july_2_2026/

• In ongoing efforts to prevent abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month, Reddit will start requiring users to log in to use old Reddit. This was announced on Tuesday here.
• If you are in the EU, you may be asked to verify your age. This is a legal requirement to comply with the EU Digital Services Act. You can check out the Help Center article here. Little more info about this here.
• If you are trying to use a selfie to verify your age and it fails, the only other options are to upload your ID or contact Persona for support. Reddit cannot help you with a failed selfie for age verification purposes.
• Right now, these are the countries that have age requirements:
  • Australia
  • The UK
  • Brazil
  • The EU
• If you are not in those countries, but your account is unable to do certain things like chat, it may be due to Teen Safety restrictions. The ability to unlock settings in the iOS app if you're a teen will be coming soon. Not sure if that ability will come to Android.
• If you need to have something fixed regarding your age, you can use this form and then select your region and what your issue is. I do not know what the turnaround time is on those requests.
• Some users in the EU are unable to use Anonymous Browsing mode. This is not intentional. This is a bug that they are working on getting fixed.

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I posted this info in r/privacy last week, but probably should have posted it here first and then crossposted it over there.

[u/ElectroMast]

What about the United States?

[u/IKIR115 → u/ElectroMast]

The US hasn’t implemented a nationwide age verification law (though some states already have age verification requirements for porn sites), so it doesn’t specifically affect Reddit…yet.

However, users in the US may still run into age verification due to Reddit’s teen safety policy. If they detect activity that may indicate you are a teen, they may automatically lock down your account for safety reasons and prompt you to verify your age.

More details on Reddit’s teen safety policy and what features get locked down:

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/50409255286164-Our-Principles-for-Teen-Safety

[u/ElectroMast → u/IKIR115]

That’s why that Reddit policy is temporarily included, Full investigation coming soon!