Apple May Soon Let Apps Charge Higher Prices Without Asking First

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A new TECHCRUNCH report Details This could be a new model for subscription renewals on Apple devices. Ulysses App developer Max Seemen first noticed that something was disabled on March 24, 2022, when he received a notice that Disney +’s monthly subscription price was going to increase – and the wording was a little different from this period.

So far, whenever a service is in place for renewal via Apple – for example, with an iOS application – users have been presented with the option to manually accept the new subscription fees or to leave subscription and be canceled automatically. In this way, if someone did not want to renew their subscription at the increased price, all they had to do was ignore the notification and it would take care of itself.

What Seemen noticed with the Disney + app, however, was that it seemed to consider inaction as acceptance of the new prices. In other words, ignore the notification would result in automatic renewal at the price increase.

The inclination could be to believe that it only turns in hand on a bad choice of words, but it may not be the case here. TechCrunch says it is kept at Apple on Disney + issue apparently being detained with a standard different from that of other iOS applications that lacks unsubscribe if users do not accept new pricing conditions. Apple’s response does not increase exactly these concerns.

Depending on the response to TechCrunch, the ability of applications to sign users at increased subscription rates without its consent (nor possibly even to their knowledge) is a feature currently under test via a pilot program. The spokesman did not specify who was part of this program, nor what she trained (other than a different approach to subscription price increases), but said to expect to see more details “in the next weeks”.

Until Apple or a company that participates in the pilot program advances more information, we can not do much information to wait, hope that this automatic agreement is not a problem for users and to see what’s going on.