Aylo, the parent company of major porn sites including Pornhub, announced today that in the UK, iPhone and iPad users will be able to access its sites again – ending an over three month ban that Aylo introduced because of new age verification laws.
As of Tuesday, following the iOS 26.4 rollout in the UK, users on the new operating system can visit Pornhub and Aylo’s other sites from their iPhones.
This is the first time Aylo has come back to a market after restricting access to its sites.
“As of about 30 minutes ago, we’re now live again in the UK, accessible to Apple users who have updated to the most recent version of the iOS,” Alex Kekesi, VP Brand and Community at Aylo, said.
Visitors to the sites who are using a Windows PC, Android device, or other non-iPhone or other mobile Apple devices such as iPads that use iOS in the UK will still not have access.
In February, Apple expanded its parental controls across iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, adding new default protections designed to reduce children’s exposure to explicit content and make settings harder to bypass.
The update built on Apple’s Communication Safety feature, which uses on-device machine learning to detect nudity and blur images before they’re viewed. Apple says the detection happens on the device, and the company doesn’t receive the content unless a user chooses to report it.
Porn ban lifted in UK for Apple users
In January, Aylo announced that starting February 2 it would restrict people visiting the site from the UK.
Before January, UK-based visitors to Aylo sites, which include RedTube, YouPorn, Brazzers, and others, had to verify their ages by entering a credit card or uploading a government ID or other identification to an age estimation system called All Pass Trust.
After February, anyone in the UK not already verified was locked out of those sites.