{"id":123293,"date":"2022-01-15T06:28:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T06:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=mbbs4zql"},"modified":"2022-01-15T06:28:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T06:28:25","slug":"update-on-dating-apps-distributed-on-the-app-store-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/15\/update-on-dating-apps-distributed-on-the-app-store-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on dating apps distributed on the App Store in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/update-on-dating-apps-distributed-on-the-app-store-in-the-netherlands.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Apple designed the App&nbsp;Store to be a safe and trusted place for people to discover and download apps. Apple\u2019s in-app purchase system, an integral part of our world-class commerce platform, offers people a private and secure user experience across apps and Apple devices, and makes it easy for them to manage their purchases and subscriptions for digital goods and services. Recent orders from the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) will allow developers of dating apps on the App&nbsp;Store in the Netherlands to share additional payment processing options with users. Because we do not believe these orders are in our users\u2019 best interests, we have appealed the ACM\u2019s decision to a higher court. We\u2019re concerned these changes could compromise the user experience, and create new threats to user privacy and data security. In the meantime, we are obligated to make the mandated changes which we\u2019re launching today and we will provide further information shortly.<\/p>\n<p>To comply with the ACM\u2019s order, we\u2019re introducing two optional new entitlements exclusively applicable to dating apps on the Netherlands App&nbsp;Store that provide additional payment processing options for users. Dating app developers who want to continue using Apple\u2019s in-app purchase system may do so and no further action is needed. Before considering applying for one of these entitlements, it\u2019s important to understand that some App&nbsp;Store features that you may use won\u2019t be available to your customers, in part because we cannot validate the security and safety of payments that take place outside of the App&nbsp;Store\u2019s private and secure payment system. Because Apple will not be directly aware of purchases made using alternative methods, Apple will not be able to assist users with refunds, purchase history, subscription management, and other issues encountered when purchasing digital goods and services through these alternative purchasing methods. You will be responsible for addressing such issues with customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/support\/storekit-external-entitlement\/\">Learn more about <span class=\"icon icon-after icon-chevronright nowrap\">these entitlements<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple designed the App&nbsp;Store to be a safe and trusted place for people to discover and download apps. Apple\u2019s in-app purchase system, an integral part of our world-class commerce platform, offers people a private and secure user experience across apps and Apple devices, and makes it easy for them to manage their purchases and subscriptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}