{"id":444756,"date":"2022-05-17T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=444756"},"modified":"2022-05-17T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:47:53","slug":"apple-launches-automatically-increasing-subscription-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/444756-apple-launches-automatically-increasing-subscription-fees.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple launches automatically increasing subscription fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=tpgp89cl&amp;1652741582\">announced<\/a><\/strong> changes to the way auto-renewing subscriptions function.<\/p>\n<p>Subscription-based apps now allow developers to implement automatic price hikes without requiring user confirmation, provided they are within a specific range.<\/p>\n<p>Before this, users had to accept any increases to a subscription\u2019s price to continue with the service.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to do so resulted in the subscription being automatically cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Developers wishing to take advantage of Apple\u2019s automatic price increase support must adhere to some rules and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe specific conditions for this feature are that the price increase doesn\u2019t occur more than once per year, doesn\u2019t exceed US$5 and 50% of the subscription price, or US$50 and 50% for an annual subscription price, and is permissible by local law,\u201d Apple stated.<\/p>\n<p>Any subscription price increase above the limit or breaching the conditions cannot be set to renew automatically and will still require users to accept it or risk being unsubscribed.<\/p>\n<p>Customers will still be notified of any price increases ahead of time via email, a push notification, and a message within the app itself.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/444552-apple-testing-usb-c-port-on-iphones.html\">Apple testing USB-C port on iPhones<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple users no longer have to manually accept all subscription price increases from services in the App Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341094,"featured_media":411572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[2412,77428,605,691],"class_list":["post-444756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-app-store","tag-app-subscriptions","tag-apple","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444824,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444756\/revisions\/444824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}