{"id":218664,"date":"2025-05-02T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/apple-2\/apple-updates-app-store-guidelines-to-allow-links-to-external-payments\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:45:25","slug":"apple-updates-app-store-guidelines-to-allow-links-to-external-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=218664","title":{"rendered":"Apple updates App Store Guidelines to allow links to external payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/track-manage-apple-app-store-subscriptions.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"App Store payment\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/track-manage-apple-app-store-subscriptions.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/track-manage-apple-app-store-subscriptions.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/track-manage-apple-app-store-subscriptions.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/track-manage-apple-app-store-subscriptions.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Apple has <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/\">officially updated<\/a> the App Store Guidelines to comply with the injunction <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/04\/30\/epic-games-claims-victory-as-apple-sanctioned-for-defying-court-order-over-app-store-rules\/\">handed down yesterday<\/a> in its legal case with Epic Games. According to the new App Store rules, \u201cthere is no prohibition on an app including buttons, external links, or other calls to action\u201d in the United States. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-999633\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe App Review Guidelines have been updated for compliance with a United States court decision regarding buttons, external links, and other calls to action in apps. These changes affect apps distributed on the United States storefront of the App Store,\u201d Apple said in an email to developers on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the full changes to the App Store Guidelines with today\u2019s revisions: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>3.1.1: Apps on the United\u00a0States storefront are not prohibited from including buttons, external links, or other calls to action when allowing users to browse NFT collections owned by others.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>3.1.1(a): On the United\u00a0States storefront, there is no prohibition on an app including buttons, external links, or other calls to action, and no entitlement is required to do so.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>3.1.3: The prohibition on encouraging users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase does not apply on the United\u00a0States storefront.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>3.1.3(a): The External Link Account entitlement is not required for apps on the United States storefront to include buttons, external links, or other calls to action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The changes come after a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/04\/30\/epic-games-claims-victory-as-apple-sanctioned-for-defying-court-order-over-app-store-rules\/\">scathing injunction<\/a> from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers yesterday in the Epic Games v. Apple case. The judge determined that Apple \u201cwillfully chose not to comply\u201d with the previous injunction in the case, which ordered the company to allow developers to steer users to external payment methods. Apple had attempted to charge a 27% commission on external purchases. <\/p>\n<p>Multiple companies <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/05\/01\/spotify-patreon-among-major-apps-already-working-to-bypass-apple-fees\/\">are already hard at work<\/a> updating their apps to take advantage of these App Store changes. Music streaming service Spotify submitted a new version of its app <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/05\/01\/spotify-has-just-submitted-its-app-update-including-links-out-to-the-web-for-payment-heres-how-it-will-change-the-experience\/\">earlier this afternoon<\/a> with links to external payments and other changes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly disagree with the decision. We will comply with the court\u2019s order and we will appeal,\u201d Apple said in a statement to <em>9to5Mac<\/em> yesterday. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorite iPhone accessories:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Chance<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@ChanceHMiller\">Threads<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/chancemiller.me\">Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chancehmiller\/\">Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ChanceHMiller\">Mastodon<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- post ad --><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with the injunction handed down yesterday in its legal case with Epic Games. According to the new App Store rules, \u201cthere is no prohibition on an app including buttons, external links, or other calls to action\u201d in the United States. \u201cThe App Review Guidelines have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11768],"tags":[4364,1332,21585,26573,1538,15676,2075,12572],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-218664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-2","tag-app","tag-apple","tag-external","tag-guidelines","tag-links","tag-payments","tag-store","tag-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Apple updates App Store Guidelines to allow links to external payments - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=218664\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Apple updates App Store Guidelines to allow links to external payments - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Apple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with the injunction handed down yesterday in its legal case with Epic Games. 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