Unity Ads in App Store game targeted at kids

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Hi everyone,

So as I am sure many of you know, when publishing to the App Store a parental gate must be added in games targeted at children to stop them clicking on ads and going to an external site etc. or else they get rejected.

I just want to know definitively…

Is there honestly no way of adding a parental gate with Unity Ads?

Thanks!

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@Jimbo_Slice

There are no parental gate features built into Unity Ads, but it should be pretty straightforward to implement something like that.

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The implementation of the parental gate is easy. What I am struggling with is how to trigger the parental gate when the user clicks on the ad.

I can’t find any OnClickEvent or anything similar for the Advertisements API

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I’ve found this asset:

No ideia how it was implemented

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Thanks for the suggestion. I emailed the dev there to see if it works with Unity Ads.

I just downloaded his sample game on iOS and it didn’t have a parental gate on its Unity Ads (just IAP and external links) so he must have published it before Apple changed its policies to include ad clicks.

The other problem I have is even if I can intercept the OnClick event of a Unity Ad how do I render a parental gate over the top of the Unity Ad? I am assuming it is rendered to some layer in front of anything else

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Ah, I see what you’re saying. There isn’t any way to put a parental gate specifically before clicking on an ad. You would have to show the Parental Gate before the ad is started (i.e. using the parental gate instead of calling Advertisement.Show).

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Yeah I tried that but it still got rejected. I take it there isn’t anything on the Roadmap to include the ability for parental gate functionality?

I have definitely learnt the hard way that kids game + ads + App Store = sad times but it’s a shame that we can’t launch the game on iOS (after putting a load of work into it)