Statement by Alex Kekesi, VP Brand and Community, on behalf of Aylo

Nicosia, Cyprus (October 6, 2026) – For years, Aylo has advocated for device-based age verification as the most effective and privacy-protecting approach to help prevent minors from accessing age-inappropriate content online. With their recent Australian update, Apple set a benchmark by enabling child safety features automatically for users who have not verified that they are adults, ultimately, making every phone or tablet kid-safe as a starting point. As a result, today Aylo welcomes eligible age-confirmed Australian iOS users back to Pornhub.

Aylo is taking a measured step to restore access to Pornhub for eligible adult users in Australia who have confirmed their age through Apple's Australian age-verification process. In our view, Apple's Australian device-level age-verification update offers one of the strongest and hardest to circumvent protections currently available for helping prevent minors from accessing age-inappropriate content. Like Aylo this view is echoed by several child protection groups. Moving forward, age-verified iOS users in Australia reaching Pornhub will be served a standard adult user experience.

We congratulate Apple on their extended age requirements for Apple accounts in Australia. This update was first rolled out in March in the United Kingdom, continued into Australia and globally. With these recent announcements Apple is demonstrating they already have the available technology to verify age and the integrated security to access the device. The same is true for shared devices with accounts or profiles. This is the best and most appropriate place to integrate controls on age restricted material.

The iPhone 18 Pro & iPhone Duo could be the first devices that protect kids by default. With these changes, John Ternus, in his new role as CEO, is clearly making child safety Apple's #1 priority. We welcome the leadership demonstrated by Apple's new CEO and welcomes the opportunity to work with Apple and other operating system manufacturers alike to keep kids and adults safe on all devices.

Operating system companies, such as Apple, can make minors safe globally by giving every user the ability to identify as an adult and retaining child safety features enabled until then.

We believe phones, tablets and computers could and should start as kid-safe devices by default. This method protects minors without requiring adults to surrender unnecessary personal information to multiple apps and websites. It also avoids creating systems that are easily circumvented through tools like VPNs.

We urge Apple to expand the UK and Australia deployments globally and for Google and Microsoft to implement the same solution. The technology exists. A precedent exists. The responsibility now lies with Apple and platforms, like ours, to pursue solutions that truly protect children across the entire internet. We are determined to be part of this solution and want to collaborate with government, civil society and tech partners to arrive at an effective kid-safe-by-default solution.