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I installed an app recently that had a 7 day free trial. Cool, I'll do that, I'm excited for the app. I immediately cancelled the autopayment on the trial after signing up because I wanted to explicitly evaluate at the end of the trial instead of have it assumed i want to continue. The app then immediately cut off my trial access. It's frustrating that Apple even tells the app developer that it was cancelled.



This is one of the anti-consumer things about the Apple App store and it applies to Apple's own apps too..

I subscribed to Apple Music with their 3 month trial and shortly after redeeming, I hit cancel on the subscription to prevent auto-rebill.

It immediately revoked my access to Apple Music and my 90 day trial disappeared. Same with Apple TV trials, etc.

Now I'm forced to set a Calendar reminder when I activate any kind of trial to remind me to cancel before the automatic rebill.




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