Spotify’s iPhone app will now let you easily buy audiobooks

It’s yet imaginable to acquisition an audiobook from Spotify’s iPhone app with conscionable a fewer taps. On Monday, Spotify announced that Apple approved an update that allows users successful the US to spot audiobook pricing wrong the app and bargain idiosyncratic audiobooks extracurricular the App Store.

The update besides lets Spotify Premium subscribers acquisition further audiobook listening hours. This alteration follows past month’s Epic Games vs. Apple ruling, which upended the iPhone maker’s control implicit the App Store. Under the ruling, Apple can’t cod fees connected purchases made extracurricular the app store, nor tin it govern however developers constituent to outer purchases.

Spotify submitted the update past week, but present it’s official. The euphony streaming work pulled audiobook purchases from its iOS app successful 2022 aft accusing Apple of “choking competition” with App Store rules that made it much hard to acquisition audiobooks. Spotify besides started letting iPhone users purchase subscriptions extracurricular the App Store earlier this month.

The iOS apps for Kindle, Patreon, and Delta’s emulator person besides taken vantage of the tribunal ruling, but Epic Games is still warring to bring Fortnite back to the App Store. “This alteration lowers the barriers for much users to clasp their archetypal — oregon tenth — audiobook, portion allowing publishers and authors to scope fans and entree caller audiences seamlessly,” Spotify said successful its announcement.