New types of subscription status alerts have become available in the App Store

Apple has added two new notification types to the App Store. Both are associated with subscriptions. At the same time, one of the old types of subscription status notifications will disappear from the store in March 2021.

The company announced the changes on its blog.

• with the help of the new DID_RENEW alert, developers will be able to find out that the user’s subscription has been automatically renewed;
• PRICE_INCREASE_CONSENT signals that the App Store has started asking users to switch to a subscription at a new price. According to Apple, this will allow developers to once again remind subscribers about the benefits of their service;
• RENEWAL notification will stop working from March 2021. The same applies to the top-level objects latest_receipt, latest_receipt_info, latest_expired_receipt and latest_expired_receipt_info.

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