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macOS is a popular operating system in the desktop market. While Microsoft Windows’s popularity is more than half, Mac OS X (A previous version of macOS) and macOS itself are in 2nd and 3rd place in popularity respectively.
macOS is a popular operating system in the desktop market. While Microsoft Windows’s popularity is more than half, Mac OS X (A previous version of macOS) and macOS itself are in 2nd and 3rd place in popularity respectively.


[[File: OS Market Share United States 2026.jpeg|thumb|The macOS operating system is 3rd most popular in the United States desktop market.<ref> {{Cite web |date=1 Feb 2026 |title=Desktop Operating System Market Share United States Of America Feb 2025 - Feb 2026 |url=https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america#monthly-202502-202602-bar |access-date=9 Mar 2026 |website=Statcounter}}</ref>]]
[[File: OS Market Share United States 2026.jpeg|thumb|The macOS operating system is 3rd most popular in the United States desktop market.<ref> {{Cite web |date=1 Feb 2026 |title=Desktop Operating System Market Share United States Of America Feb 2025 - Feb 2026 |url=https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america#monthly-202502-202602-bar |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260228221512/https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america#monthly-202502-202602-bar |archive-date=28 Feb 2026 |access-date=9 Mar 2026 |website=[[Statcounter]]}}</ref>]]


==Incidents==
==Incidents==
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===OS Level Age Verification (''2026'')===
===OS Level Age Verification (''2026'')===
Apple requires users to upload a credit card in order to access features deemed by the OS as unsafe for children. This is Apple’s compliance with age verification legislation in certain countries and states.<ref> {{Cite web |last=Perez |first=Sarah |date=24 Feb 2026 |title=Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws |url=https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/apple-rolls-out-age-verification-tools-worldwide-to-comply-with-growing-web-of-child-safety-laws/ |access-date=9 Mar 2026 |website=TechCrunch}}</ref>
Apple requires users to upload a credit card in order to access features deemed by the OS as unsafe for children. This is Apple’s compliance with age verification legislation in certain countries and states.<ref> {{Cite web |last=Perez |first=Sarah |date=24 Feb 2026 |title=Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws |url=https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/apple-rolls-out-age-verification-tools-worldwide-to-comply-with-growing-web-of-child-safety-laws/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260301165411/https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/apple-rolls-out-age-verification-tools-worldwide-to-comply-with-growing-web-of-child-safety-laws/ |archive-date=1 Mar 2026 |access-date=9 Mar 2026 |website=[[TechCrunch]]}}</ref>


===Creator Studio (''2026'')===
===Creator Studio (''2026'')===