Pornhub’s parent company Aylo says it will be making the site available again for some UK users.
The company behind the world’s best-known porn site limited access for most UK users in Febrary – only permitting those who had previously registered with Pornhub and verified their age.
It said Online Safety Act (OSA) age verification rules for porn and other adult sites had not been evenly or fairly applied across the industry, and it would no longer take part in what it said it was a flawed system.
But on Tuesday Pornhub’s owners said Apple users who had confirmed their age with the company’s most up-to-date version of iOS, its mobile operating system, would be allowed back onto the site.
This is because the latest version of iOS introduces age checks for UK iPhone users, as well as for iPads running on up-to-date iterations of its own operating system, iPadOS.
Aylo has long argued that so-called device-level checks, of the sort Apple has brought in, are the best way to stop young people accessing explicit content.
“With the release of iOS 26.4 Apple has introduced the world’s first ever device-based age verification solution for its users in the UK, a major first step towards a global solution that stands to better protect children everywhere,” said Alex Kekesi, head of community and brand at Aylo.
“As a result, today Aylo welcomes eligible age-confirmed UK iOS users back to Pornhub.”
This partial U-turn is the latest example of how Pornhub has been affected by the OSA.
