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California Age Compliance Checklist for Expo Apps

A practical checklist for solo developers, Expo teams, and React Native CTOs who want to ship age-aware behavior fast. No legal guarantees — just the engineering moves teams actually make.

This is developer guidance, not legal advice. Always review your obligations with counsel.

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Onboarding

Ask for an age signal during onboarding, not after first use.
Make the prompt clear and not buried under dark patterns.
Don't store more than you need — a single age band is usually enough.
Handle the 'declined to answer' case explicitly.

Minor-safe defaults

Default likely-minor users to private profiles.
Turn off personalized ads for likely-minor users.
Restrict DMs from strangers by default.
Hide adult, mature, or unsafe-by-default features.
Use safe-by-default discovery feeds.

Ads & analytics

Switch to contextual ads for minors.
Disable behavioral retargeting for minors.
Avoid sharing minor data with third-party SDKs you don't need.
Review your analytics SDKs for age-aware modes.

Auditability

Log every age-related decision (what changed, why, when).
Keep logs locally and exportable — no third-party PII dump.
Be able to answer: 'what defaults did this user get and why?'

App-store signals

Wire into iOS age-signal APIs as they ship.
Wire into Android age-signal APIs as they ship.
Treat the OS signal as a hint, not absolute truth.

Don't do

Don't claim 'legally compliant' in marketing without counsel.
Don't collect ID documents unless you really need to.
Don't gate everything behind a hard age check on first launch.
Don't ignore the 'I prefer not to say' path.

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