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Amendments to Utah's App Store Accountability Act update how app stores and app developers must handle age verification and parental consent for minors, with all major requirements taking effect May 6, 2027. The bill adds a new category of "pre-installed applications" — apps that come loaded on a phone or tablet at the time of purchase, like browsers or messaging apps — and requires app stores and developers to extend age verification and parental consent processes to those apps as well. It also refines the age categories used for verification (child, younger teenager, older teenager, and adult), removes a previously required state rulemaking process, and clarifies that developers may only use age data shared by app stores for limited purposes like enforcing age restrictions or complying with the law.