Spotify Cuts Off Subscribers Who Pay Via Apple's App Store
- Spotify will no longer allow subscribers who pay through Apple's in-app purchase system to do so and is switching them to Spotify's free tier.
- Apple charges a 30% commission on in-app purchases which Spotify wants to avoid paying.
- Spotify stopped allowing new subscribers to pay through Apple's App Store in 2016 but existing subscribers could continue until now.
- Spotify has long clashed with Apple over App Store policies and filed an anti-trust complaint against Apple with the European Commission.
- Other companies like Netflix have also removed in-app subscription options from their iOS apps to bypass Apple's fees.