Apple has announced that it has made changes to its App Store pricing policy. According to the statement, there will be no need to renew the subscription for the hikes to be made under certain conditions. The user will start paying directly at the new price.
US-based technology giant Apple, in App Store policies He announced that he had made a small but effective change. In the statements made by the company’s website, for every price increase to be experienced in active subscriptions from now on, user consent will not be taken specified. However, there will be some limits and conditions for price changes that will be applied without user approval.
Apple’s old policy was pretty clear. The user receives information when the price of a purchased subscription changes, He was renewing his subscription even if there was a difference of 1 cent. Now that will not happen. There will no longer be user approvals for raises up to a certain level. Users will start paying up-to-date prices “without even knowing” of the price change. This situation is public can lead to some controversy looks like.
Why did Apple take such a decision?
According to the statement on Apple’s website, the reason for such a decision is that users’ active subscriptions unconsciously lost. According to Apple, users can still receive notifications or messages in the old system. they skip notifications and they were losing their subscription to a service. Because they were not doing subscription renewal manually. Here, Apple is declaring that it has made a policy change to prevent this.
The hike amounts that Apple will not inform in accordance with its new policy are as follows:
According to Apple’s statement, developers pay 50 percent of the annual subscription fee (the upper limit of the raise is 50 dollars) or 50 percent of the monthly subscription fee (the upper limit of the raise is 5 dollars) will not receive approval from users for the hikes they will make. The App Store will automatically renew the existing subscription and the user will be able to continue using the service they purchased without losing their subscription right. Apple states that auto-renewal hikes must be limited to once per year and must comply with local laws. Otherwise, user approval will be required. Well this is the case For iPhone owners in Turkey what does it mean?
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How about auto-renewal limits for iPhone owners in Turkey?
Instead of using the international exchange rate in countries that don’t use the dollar, Apple self determined using limits. This is also called a “tier”. For example, according to Apple’s official statement, an application for 10 dollars in the App Store can be purchased for 169.99 TL in Turkey. So Apple’s dollar / TL parity fixed at 16.99 case. If the decision taken for the App Store is implemented in Turkey, the situation that users will encounter will be as follows:
- For the increase up to 50 percent of the monthly subscription fee (upper increase limit is 84.99 TL). will auto-renew.
- For the increase up to 50 percent of the annual subscription fee (upper limit of 849.99 TL) will auto-renew.
If you want to reach Apple’s dollar / TL parity table here You can use the link.