A status report highlighting what is known to date about the implementation of the Social Media Minimum Age obligation since it took effect on 10 December 2025. 

The compliance report shows there has been some progress in the first three months, including large scale account removals and more visible underage reporting pathways. However, insights from a range of sources including platforms’ responses to legally enforceable information-gathering notices, public reporting and eSafety’s pulse survey, show major gaps remain.

A number of poor practices are observed that give rise to compliance concerns outlined in the report. These include:

• ​prompting children to attempt age assurance even where their declared age prior to 10 December 2025 was under 16
• ​enabling children aged under 16 to repeatedly attempt the same age assurance method to ultimately obtain a 16+ outcome
• ​failing to provide accessible or effective pathways for reporting age-restricted accounts 
• ​insufficient measures to prevent new under 16 accounts being created.