Meta Now Requires Quest 2 And 3 Users To Confirm Age

Meta Quest user illustration by children (photo: Meta)

JAKARTA - Meta has announced that they will begin asking Meta account owners in Quest 2 and 3 to confirm their age, by reinserting their date of birth.

"We are doing this to help ensure that everyone using the Meta Quest Platform has access to age-appropriate tools, content and protection," Meta wrote in its announcement.

So now, you can choose one in three age categories in Meta Quest 2 and 3. Among them:

Adults (1+): When setting up an account, you will choose whether you want a personal or public profile and who can see the app you are using and your activity. Active status is displayed to followers and connections by default if you are 18 years of age and older, even if you can disable it at any time.

Teenagers (13-17): Adolescent Meta Account on Quest, profile will be set to private automatically, meaning the teenager agrees to a request for followers. Activities, active status, and applications used are automatically hidden from others unless the teenager decides to share them.

Prejuvene (10-12): Prejuvene has the strictest account settings. A prerejuvent account is called an account managed by parents, and requires parents to create an account. Prejuveled children must get parental consent to create an account.

The prerejuvent profile is determined by default to personal, and activity, active status, and the application used is also set to personal, and parents are given control of this arrangement.

With this new policy, Meta wants to make it easier for developers to better understand the age of people who use their app so that they can provide age-appropriate experiences for prejuvenation, youth, and adults.

In turn, parents can believe that the app provides the most appropriate experience and protection of their child's age, the company continued.