Apple says Patreon creators must switch to subscription billing by November

Patreon volition unit creators to determination distant from bequest billing methods this autumn to appease Apple's recently revived subscriptions mandate. The migration volition interaction 4 percent of Patreon creators who inactive usage first-of-the-month and per creation billing models, with Apple imposing a deadline to power to subscription billing by November 1st, 2026. On its support page, Patreon says it volition "automatically transition" immoderate creators who person not manually switched by this date.

If this sounds familiar, it's due to the fact that Apple has already introduced and past U-turned connected this mandate before. In 2024, Apple initially told Patreon to determination its creators to th …

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