Kids Mode in Unity SDK

If your Unity application is intended for kids, you must follow the policies of Apple and Google. If you’re using the Adapty SDK, a few simple steps will help you configure it to meet these policies and pass app store reviews.

What’s required?

You need to configure the Adapty SDK to disable the collection of:

IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) (iOS)
Android Advertising ID (AAID/GAID) (Android)
IP address

In addition, we recommend using customer user ID carefully. User ID in format <FirstName.LastName> will be definitely treated as gathering personal data as well as using email. For Kids Mode, a best practice is to use randomized or anonymized identifiers (e.g., hashed IDs or device-generated UUIDs) to ensure compliance.

Enabling Kids Mode

Updates in the Adapty Dashboard

In the Adapty Dashboard, you need to disable the IP address collection. To do this, go to App settings and click Disable IP address collection under Collect users’ IP address.

Updates in your app code

Disable the collection of the Android Advertising ID and the IP address when you activate the SDK:

var builder = new AdaptyConfiguration.Builder("YOUR_PUBLIC_SDK_KEY")
    .SetGoogleAdvertisingIdCollectionDisabled(true) // set to `true`
    .SetIPAddressCollectionDisabled(true); // set to `true`

Adapty.Activate(builder.Build(), (error) => {
    if (error != null) {
        // handle the error
        return;
    }
});

On iOS, you don’t need to call SetAppleIDFACollectionDisabled — enabling Kids Mode for the iOS build (see below) disables IDFA collection in the SDK configuration for you.

Enable Kids Mode for the iOS build

On iOS, Kids Mode is a Swift package trait named KidsMode. Enabling it compiles IDFA, AdSupport, and AppTrackingTransparency out of the SDK binary. It requires SDK 4.0 or later — which installs the native iOS SDK through Swift Package Manager — and Xcode 26 or later, since earlier Xcode versions don’t support Swift package traits.

In the Unity Editor, go to Player Settings > Other Settings and add ADAPTY_KIDS_MODE to Scripting Define Symbols for the iOS platform.
Build your project for iOS as usual. Adapty enables the KidsMode trait on the AdaptySDK-iOS package reference in the generated Xcode project, and forces apple_idfa_collection_disabled in the runtime configuration.

Add the define in Player Settings, not in a build profile. A build profile’s scripting defines reach the Editor assemblies only after Unity recompiles them, so a build started in the same session can produce a binary that reports Kids Mode at runtime while still linking IDFA. Adapty fails the iOS build when it detects that state. BuildPlayerOptions.extraScriptingDefines is not supported at all, because it never reaches the Editor assemblies.

Updates in your Android manifest

If your app targets children only and compiles against Android 13 (API 33) or higher, Google Play requires that you don’t request the AD_ID permission. Disabling the collection in the SDK configuration stops Adapty from collecting the ID, but it doesn’t remove a permission that another plugin declares through manifest merging.

To remove the permission, enable Custom Main Manifest in Player Settings > Publishing Settings, then add the following inside the <manifest> element of Assets/Plugins/Android/AndroidManifest.xml. The <manifest> element must declare xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools".

<uses-permission
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID"
    tools:node="remove" />

What’s required?

You need to configure the Adapty SDK to disable the collection of:

IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) (iOS)
Android Advertising ID (AAID/GAID) (Android)
IP address

Enabling Kids Mode

Updates in the Adapty Dashboard

In the Adapty Dashboard, you need to disable the IP address collection. To do this, go to App settings and click Disable IP address collection under Collect users’ IP address.

Updates in your app code

Disable the collection of the Android Advertising ID and the IP address when you activate the SDK:

var builder = new AdaptyConfiguration.Builder("YOUR_PUBLIC_SDK_KEY")
    .SetGoogleAdvertisingIdCollectionDisabled(true) // set to `true`
    .SetIPAddressCollectionDisabled(true); // set to `true`

Adapty.Activate(builder.Build(), (error) => {
    if (error != null) {
        // handle the error
        return;
    }
});

Enable Kids Mode for the iOS build

Compiling IDFA and AdSupport out of the iOS binary requires Adapty Unity SDK 4.0 or later. Upgrade with the migration guide, then follow the SDK 4.0 instructions on this page.

On SDK 3.x, you can still disable IDFA collection in the SDK configuration with SetAppleIDFACollectionDisabled(true), but the IDFA and AdSupport code stays in the binary. For the native configuration options, see Kids Mode in iOS SDK and Kids Mode in Android SDK.