Apps disappearing after iOS 26 update due to restrictions on iPhone

Hello,

my mother set restrictions on my iPad when I was a child, but I am now 18 and my IPhone knows that, but when I updates to IOS26, all of my social media apps offloaded. I can’t redownload them because it says restriction when I have no restrictions on. Please help.

My daughter who is over 13 is having the same issues with her apps now. She does have some restrictions on her phone like screen time but her DOB is on her phone and apps are set for 17+ so quite sure why they keep disappearing.

I have the same problem, except, the apps disappear for an hour or two and then Reappear. It’s getting very annoying and aggravating because the apps that I use the most like YouTube, google, ChatGPT, etc keep disappearing. Please fix this Apple!!!!

I had the same problem. On my iPhone 13, after the update, the apps just disappeared. I thought this was just a visual glitch or apps disappearing from home screen due to update changing but I looked from App Store and it said the same thing. I was going to lose my mental health from apps coming and going if this post wasn’t here.Thank you.

I have a related issue that's slightly different. I am a parent and have a Family designated on my iphone that include 3 children profiles with different age-related restrictions. I am the only one that has installed iOS 26. Once installed, some key apps disappeared (of the ones that I am aware of) like X, MyChart (health), and Tumblr. I am sure there are a few others that I am not aware of. When I got to the App Store, I can find the app in question and see the "update" button. However, the update button is greyed out and there is a message that states: "This app can't be downloaded because content restrictions are enabled on your device." The content restrictions are not for me, they are on my children's profiles....and I do not share apps with my family. I have one into each one of their profiles and toggled the "Content & Privacy Restrictions" to off and restarted my phone. Still my apps are gone and I receive the same update error. I am perplexed why the content restrictions for the child profiles I control on my account/phone are prohibiting apps/content from downloading/updating on my personal phone.

I am not seeing any response besides the crappy one that says “if your device is jail broken” or whatever, this is still a issue, but I’m thinking on apples api there is a syncing issue causing duplicated apps like the image below.

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Hello, I updated my phone maybe around early last month and it had not worked, if it was a software issue then it should’ve been fixed by now. But Apple really needs to fix it. It’s really irritating me and it’s making me have to restart my phone and start it back up just to use apps that my parents already let me use. Like what?! They let me have it for a reason? Apple fix this please!! I want to be able to use my apps without it kicking me out mid call!!!

Daughter also having this issue, I allow 12+ apps in the restrictions but she can’t use apps that are rated 12+ after updating her phone..this is a bit ridiculous! I don’t want to move to 17+ because she’s 14.

we Are experiencing this issue as well with my 12 year old. And it is making life unbearable. Looking forward to a bug fix pronto.

How do you add exceptions so it doesn’t change the whole age category?

How would iI fix this

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Same! I have 13+ restrictions, but I finally updated my phone and now it’s 9+?!?! It may be because I’m not 13 yet but my sister put it as 13+ for a reason, it should stay like that

Idk because it changed the age for me (I’ll die without Pinterest)

I have 13+ restricions and i cant even use roblox 😭

That happened to me too! For some reason it’s changed itself so I can’t have any app that’s rated above 9+ even if I had it before, and I am a LOT older than 9.