Apple - pause / return auto-renew subscription

Question

I have an iPhone / iPad app that offers a monthly subscription to the service. Although this service is absolutely useless for 2 months throughout the year.

Is there a way to suspend the subscription to all my users for 2 months or give them a 2-month return every year so that they do not pay for useless service?

Answer 1

After a good conversation with an Apple employee, it’s not possible to pause an auto-update product.

In addition, $ 0 subscriptions do not exist outside NewsStand applications at the moment.

To solve our problem, we will need to remove the product in the application in iTunes Connect. This will automatically cancel all active subscriptions that we have so that users do not charge for anything.

The big drawback of this solution is that we will lose all current subscribers, so next year we need to create a new subscription bank from scratch.

Answer 2

Perhaps you can give two months to your users for free rather than return them.

Answer 3

Have you found a better alternative as you post your answer about canceling all subscribers every year?

In addition to 1-year subscriptions, the apple also allows you to fulfill other conditions, including 1-month subscriptions, for both renewable and non-renewable subscriptions.

Perhaps you can make your external interface in the application as if the user has signed up for a long-term subscription, but behind the scenes your application sends 1 month non-renewable subscription request for apple. Then each month, your application automatically requests another subscription for 1 month, and another ... just skip the months that you want to skip.

The user fills out the subscription form in your user interface 1 time. Your application logic remembers how many times to start a new subscription for 1 month.