Spotify cuts itself off from Apple. iPhone users may be left without a subscription

Spotify stopped offering subscriptions via payments in the Apple app store back in 2016 due to the fees that the California giant charges for such a transaction. For intermediation in each payment, Apple wants as much as 30 percent. commission,

No more paying for Spotify through the App Store

While Spotify has been preventing new users from subscribing through the App Store for years, users who opted in earlier were able to continue to do so (although they had to pay $3 more than directly with Spotify). Until now. The Swedish service began notifying users about the planned cut off from Apple’s brokerage. “We’re contacting you because you subscribed to Apple’s billing service when you joined Spotify Premium. Unfortunately, we no longer accept this billing method as a payment method” – sent out to users.

Spotify explains that users can use the Premium version of the service until the end of their billing period. The day after the subscription ends, they will automatically be transferred to the free version of Spotify. If they still want to use Premium, they will have to decide to buy a new subscription, but this time directly through the Spotify app or website. The service explains in a statement to , that this form of payment gives you a “best-in-class subscription”. Translating to ours, bypassing Apple’s intermediation, users will pay less for exactly the same functions in Spotify.

It is worth recalling that in 2019 Spotify filed a complaint against Apple in the European Union. The service argued that the American company is taking advantage of its dominant position in the market by imposing a huge, as much as 30 percent, tax on the market. commission on payments via the App Store. The Swedes complained in a similar way about Google, which also charges similar fees for payments via Google Play.