We recently announced that Netflix has partnered with Microsoft to be the company that handles your next ad-supported subscription fee. Now, we bring another novelty: Apple users can now start subscribing to Netflix through your website.
In case you didn’t know, earlier this year, Apple began allowing content-on-demand apps to use external links to pay for subscriptions outside of the App Store. And Netflix has been quick to launch an update to the iOS app so that users can subscribe to its service through the Netflix website, so they don’t have to pay Apple anything for it.
As the colleagues at 9to5Mac have reported, the Netflix application now uses a new iOS API for this type of app that allows you to be taken to an external web page before starting the subscription process.
You can now subscribe to Netflix through the web using your iPad or iPhone
Though it is not known when this deployment began since the platform has not reported anything about it, it seems that this update has reached all users globally, so if you have an iPad or an iPhone and want to subscribe to Netflix, now you can do it from the Netflix website. service.
As you will see in the image that heads these lines, the moment you start the process of subscription through the Netflix app for iPad or iPhone, A new window will appear indicating that “You are about to exit the application and go to an external website”, which will be where you will subscribe. In addition, the message indicates that the subscription will not be an Apple thing, but that everything must be managed through Netflix.
As indicated “any account or purchase made outside of this app will be managed by the developer “Netflix”. The App Store account, stored payment methods, and related features such as subscription management and refund requests will not be available. Apple is not responsible for the privacy or security of transactions made with this developer.”
Do you have any advantages as a customer? The truth is that no, since the rates are exactly the same, but Netflix avoids having to continue paying the 30% commission to Apple for each subscription, and that is reduced to 15% once the first year has passed.
In this way, if you are an iPhone or iPad user and want to subscribe to Netflix, do not worry if you see an external website appear as it is completely normal.
