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0 pointsthreeseed2y ago0 comments

a) They always require your password for in-app purchases unless you disable it.

b) People have been conditioned over 15 years to treat all app purchases as being managed by Apple. So they expect refunds, disputes etc to be done in the App Store. This is changing. And so it's completely reasonable to clearly inform users about this. Because we have a long history of IAP being a major addiction vector.

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newZWhoDis2y ago

>They always require your password for in-app purchases unless you disable it.

No they don’t. Biometric only is the default for all IAP/in app subs.

Android is the only one who makes you enter a password to subscribe, because Google is incompetent.

tadfisher2y ago

That is only for the first purchase via Google Play on a device, as there is a checkbox to skip the password and use biometrics for future purchases.

turquoisevar2y ago

No, password is default.

Biometrics is offered as an alternative after the first time, but it is opt-in.

If you restore or transfer settings then it’ll ask for password first time and then honor biometric preference if that’s what you opted-in for on the other device.

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