After someway shirking Apple’s App Retailer fee charges for years, Patreon knowledgeable its steady of creators this week that they’ll quickly be topic to the identical 30 p.c payment as everybody else—and is providing a technique to offset these prices.
In a submit to its website on Monday, Patreon explains, “Apple is requiring us to change over to their in-app buy system for all iOS transactions or else threat being kicked out of the App Retailer altogether.” The brand new phrases will apply to all new memberships bought by means of the iOS app and creators who’re utilizing first-of-the-month or per-creation billing plans might want to change to subscription billing to proceed incomes within the iOS app.
Patreon says “most” creators use subscription billing and would require all creators to make use of subscription billing by November 2025. Of observe, the change doesn’t apply to current memberships, solely new sign-ups. It goes into impact starting November 1.
To assist with the transition and supply creators a technique to offset prices, Patreon has created an non-compulsory instrument that may routinely enhance costs by 30 p.c inside the iOS app in order that they received’t lose income. The worth enhance will probably be enabled by default until creators disable it.
It’s unclear why Patreon was beforehand exempt from the App Retailer phrases or why Apple is imposing them now. The submit says the Patreon staff will probably be out there on its Discord neighborhood type from August 12 to August 16 to reply any questions.
