Current Spotify subscribers who’ve been paying for the service via Apple’s App Retailer can not pay utilizing this cost technique. The customers paying via that mechanism can be moved to a free account on the finish of their present billing cycle. They’ll then must buy a paid plan via the web site.
Selection, which first noticed the change, famous that the music streaming firm just lately began emailing customers utilizing the App Retailer as their cost technique. Spotify confirmed this transfer in an announcement.
“We just lately started notifying a small variety of customers {that a} legacy cost technique, that their Premium account is connected to, is being deprecated. Customers notified by e mail will routinely transfer to a Free account from their subsequent billing cycle. Customers will then have the choice to improve to a Premium account by logging into their account at Spotify.com. These actions will assist be sure that we are able to proceed to offer a constant best-in-class subscription expertise for all our customers,” an organization spokesperson mentioned.
The corporate has disabled the choice to subscribe via in-app purchases on iPhones since 2016. The corporate provided subscriptions via the App Retailer just for two years beginning in 2014. Put up that, Spotify confirmed a message saying “You possibly can’t improve to premium within the app, We all know, it’s not very best” on iPhones.
Spotify and Apple have been at loggerheads on the latter’s App Retailer charges for years now. The Cupertino-based firm is at present presenting its case to European regulators to dismiss Spotify’s antitrust fees.
The Sweden-based streaming firm has additionally had comparable arguments with Google relating to charges on in-app purchases made via the Play Retailer. Nonetheless, each firms signed an settlement final yr to let Spotify experiment with third-party billing choices.
Earlier this yr, throughout its Q1 2023 earnings name, Spotify mentioned that it has greater than 500 million month-to-month lively customers and over 210 million premium subscribers.