Apple faces a dilemma that will haunt it for a long time: the conditions it imposes in the App Store for in-app purchases and the commissions imposed on in-store payments. It is a problem that has led thousands of applications to leave the App Store and even the European Union to make decisions such as the arrival of alternative stores to iOS. Following this affair, Netflix will no longer allow Basic Plan subscriptions to be paid for in the US and Canada through App Store purchases to users who purchased the subscription before 2018.
Users will no longer be able to pay for Netflix through the App Store
Until 2018, users could subscribe to Netflix and pay for the subscription through the App Store as a payment gateway. This implied that Apple took a 15% commission for each payment subscription. This changed in 2018 when Netflix restricted access to this payment method, leaving only the option to make a payment with other methods. However, It allowed all users subscribed through the App Store to pay with this method until they canceled the subscription.
However, thousands of users have continued to pay for the subscription since 2018 and Apple continues to take 15% of the payment, in such a turbulent period regarding the conditions that the App Store imposes on its developers. It seems Netflix has lost patience and will prohibit payment of subscriptions through the App Store to the thousands of users who still use this payment method:
Some members billed by Apple in certain countries may need to add a new payment method to continue their subscription.
Netflix has already confirmed that This restriction only concerns the United States and Canada, and users with a subscription to the basic package. This means that users who meet these conditions will have to add a new payment method to their account or will be left without access to the Netflix catalog.
