TL;DR
- You must be 18. The acceptable-use rules ban sexual content involving anyone younger.
- Creators: the privacy policy says OnlyFans collects a government identity document and a selfie (and, through a provider, the pass/fail of that check). Fans: email and phone by default, and a third-party age check where OnlyFans runs one.
- The subscribe help text adds extra onboarding based on where you live. OnlyFans does not publish a state-by-state menu of those steps.
- On 27 June 2025 the US Supreme Court upheld Texas H.B. 1181, which makes certain adult sites verify that a visitor is 18 or older. Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton.
- The Free Speech Coalition tracker lists 27 states with an enacted age-verification statute and an effective date. A statute is not proof OnlyFans shows you an ID check in that state, and a court can pause a law.
What OnlyFans itself collects
| Who | In the privacy policy |
|---|
| Creator |
Full name, address, email, phone, a copy of the government ID, a selfie holding that ID. A provider may also take the ID image and a short face recording and return a pass or fail. |
| Fan |
Email and phone as user data. Where OnlyFans runs a third-party age or identity check, the ID and a face recording go to that provider, and OnlyFans keeps the pass/fail. |
| Anyone in someone else’s content |
Release forms can require the same identity fields, marked in the policy as collaborator data. |
That creator check is why “no face on the feed” is not anonymity from OnlyFans. The difference is on doing OnlyFans anonymously.
UK: what Ofcom actually decided
Ofcom opened a case on whether OnlyFans’ age measures kept under-18s away from pornographic material. In February 2025 it closed that part without a finding, and said it could reopen it. A separate part found that Fenix had told Ofcom the age-estimation challenge age was 23 when it was 20. Ofcom fined Fenix £1.05 million on 26 March 2025 for the inaccurate information. The fine is about the wrong number given to the regulator, not a court finding that children were on the site.
US states with an enacted statute
These effective dates are the Free Speech Coalition tracker’s, read for this page. Indiana and Tennessee notes on that tracker mention a second date. Texas’s listing notes a court-related shift to 19 September 2023. We are not re-litigating each statute. If you need to know whether a check will appear, the onboarding screen is the authority, not this table.
| State | Effective date on the FSC tracker |
|---|
| Alabama | 1 October 2024 |
| Arizona | 26 September 2025 |
| Arkansas | 31 July 2023 |
| Florida | 1 January 2025 |
| Georgia | 1 July 2025 |
| Idaho | 1 July 2024 |
| Indiana | 1 July 2024 |
| Iowa | 1 July 2026 |
| Kansas | 1 July 2024 |
| Kentucky | 15 July 2024 |
| Louisiana | 1 January 2023 |
| Mississippi | 1 July 2023 |
| Missouri | 30 November 2025 |
| Montana | 1 January 2024 |
| Nebraska | 18 July 2024 |
| North Carolina | 1 January 2024 |
| North Dakota | 1 August 2025 |
| Ohio | 30 September 2025 |
| Oklahoma | 1 November 2024 |
| South Carolina | 1 January 2025 |
| South Dakota | 1 July 2025 |
| Tennessee | 1 January 2025 |
| Texas | 1 September 2023 |
| Utah | 3 May 2023 |
| Virginia | 1 July 2023 |
| West Virginia | 12 June 2026 |
| Wyoming | 1 July 2025 |
Many of these laws cover sites where sexually explicit material is a substantial share of the content, often around a one-third threshold in the Texas model. Whether a given OnlyFans page meets a state’s definition is a legal question. This desk is not answering it state by state.
Do not send identity documents to anyone who is not the OnlyFans verification flow. There is no unofficial “age check” app. Read the
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