Google Play's Age Signals API Goes Worldwide This Year

Google is expanding the Play Age Signals API from Brazil to Australia and Canada in mid-August, with a global rollout promised later this year. The API lets parents share a child’s age range through Family Link so apps can adapt content and safety behaviour, with nothing shared by default and settings revocable at any time. Google is explicit that it is not imposing rules: developers choose how, or whether, to use the signal. That framing matters as age-verification mandates spread across jurisdictions — the platform is supplying a compliance primitive and leaving the compliance judgement with the app.