Apple has announced monthly subscription payments for apps available on the App Store. With this, Apple device users will be able to pay monthly installments for their subscriptions instead of paying a year’s subscription fee upfront. These monthly subscription payments come with a lock-in period of 12 months. A user would still have to pay for a year’s subscription but the payment will be divided into 12 monthly installments.
However, cancelling the subscription in the middle of the commitment year won’t automatically cancel the payments. Instead, the payments will continue and the subscription will remain active until the year-long commitment period ends. But that will prevent the subscription from renewing automatically after the years’ time frame ends. Also, failing to make a payment will lead the user to lose access to the subscription.
Simply put, with its new subscription plan, Apple is giving users more flexibility in terms of making payments for their app subscriptions. The time frame for the subscriptions made through the App Store, however, remains the same, that is, one year.
Apart from this, Apple is also making it easier for users to track their monthly app subscription payments. App Store page for apps with active subscriptions will show monthly payment amount along with the due date for next payment.
Apple has confirmed that it has started rolling out this feature to all its users except the ones in the US and Singapore. Apple device users will get this feature with the release of iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, macOS Tahoe 26.5, tvOS 26.5, and visionOS 26.5 in May this year.
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