App Store subscriptions can now charge you more without your approval

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Up until today, if you subscribed to an App Store service or app and enabled auto-renew, you would have to manually opt-in to a price hike before it affected you. While this meant that you had more control over your spending habits, it could also lead to interrupted services if you forgot to opt-in.

Apple thinks that this is not a desirable situation so it has now modified its subscription policies to allow developers to increase subscription prices in some cases without requiring you to manually opt-in and agree to the hike.

An announcement from Apple notes that auto-renewal without your prior approval is allowed under specific circumstances. Basically, if the price hike happens doesn't happen more than once a year and is not more than $50 or 50% of the annual subscription price, your explicit approval won't be required. For subscriptions with smaller durations, the threshold is set at $5 or 50% of the subscription price.

App Store subscriptions can now charge you more without your approval

Apple has updated its App Store policies to allow developers to charge you more for auto-renewing subscriptions under specific circumstances without your prior, explicit approval for the price hike.

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