If you are an Apple user, you may already know that your subscriptions to various apps and services on your Apple device automatically renew unless there is a price change in the subscription plans. In that case, you will need to select the new plans manually from your Payments and Subscription settings. But with a new App Store rule, Apple plans to change this situation and make it so that developers will be able to automatically renew user subscriptions without having to agree to the price changes. Check out the information below to learn more about this significant change.
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Apple has now officially rolled out the feature to developers via an explanatory blog post. With this change, instead of manually selecting a price change in a subscription plan, plans will now automatically renew in the event of a price increase. Apple says this will prevent service from being accidentally interrupted for users due to price changes in their subscription plans.
For platforms and services to be eligible for the new "auto-renewable subscription price increase" feature, developers must follow certain guidelines set by the tech giant. For starters, developers can raise the prices of their subscription plans only once a year. This is to prevent fraud and scam apps from increasing their subscriptions by a cent or two every now and then.
Furthermore, for monthly and weekly price increases, developers cannot exceed the $5 mark or 50% of the previous price. So if a monthly subscription plan costs $10 and the developer increases the price to $15 (price increase = $5, which is 50% of the previous price), that app will be eligible for the auto-renewable subscription price increase. However, if the price is raised to $16, users must manually opt-in to the newly priced plan.
