There are surprises and unpleasant surprises. And then there is discovering on your bank statement a payment for an application that you have only tried and are not interested in at all. Well, this is what Apple wants to avoid, which is why it has protected iPhone and iPad users. It has done so with a simple pop-up window in its App Store, with which it prevents Face ID or Touch ID from accidentally subscribing users to different services offered.
From now on in the App Store, when you interact with a paid application or service, a pop-up window will make you question the process. This will appear right after making the transaction effective. Either with Face ID or with Touch ID. In this way, informs the user that he is about to subscribe to a service And, next to this text, he asks if he wants to confirm or not the action he has finished to perform. A step that seems trivial, but that is very well thought out to avoid many problems, as well as to also give transparency to the purchase process in the App Store.
Whoa! Apple added an additional confirmation step for subscriptions. This new alert comes after you confirm with Touch ID/Face ID. I hope they address this in a more elegant way in iOS 13, but I'm thrilled Apple took a definitive step to curb scam subscriptions. ?? @pschiller pic.twitter.com/oktaEVdx0o
- David Barnard (@drbarnard) April 11, 2019
The system arrives as a result of a problem that was no longer just an error on the part of the user. And it is that, as reported in The Verge, some developers were making use of certain tricks to subscribe users without properly informing them. For example, there is talk of he alth applications that required a press on the iPhone's Home button, where the Touch ID fingerprint sensor is housed, with the excuse of collecting fitness data of some kind. What these applications did not tell the user is that with this they were giving their consent for the subscription to a paid service
There are also other cases where this subscription alert message is useful. And it is that many of the applications do not inform the user properly. Many of them ask for your bank details to enjoy the free trial What is not always so clear is that, after that period, the subscription is activated and the payment it becomes effective.With the consequent charge to the user's account.
Apple takes care of the user of its App Store with care. It has already demonstrated this since January when it asked developers to specify the full amount of the subscription on the information screen of these services A process of transparency that it intends to leave us No news in the future similar to that of children who spend thousands of euros for their parents for a game, or who are left in ruins by involuntarily subscribing to different services.
