The app should warn you about this, but it’s worth canceling your subscription before you delete the account just to be safe and to avoid paying for a service you can’t access.
Just note that if you delete your account – at least in App Store apps – developers aren’t required to automatically suspend any auto-renewing billing you've set up through Apple.
Other than this, however, both policies seem equally robust and are a great privacy feature that’s sure to benefit the security conscious amongst us. Apple doesn’t mandate those apps give you a web-based way to delete your account and data – only that there has to be an in-app way to remove it if you can create an account in-app. Google’s policy will introduce an extra benefit though, making it a slightly better version of Apple’s policy. Any app published on the Apple App Store has had to let you delete your account since June 30th, 2022. Playing catch-up with App Store PrivacyĪ policy like this is nothing new in the mobile app world – Google is actually lagging a fair way behind Apple in this regard. So it might still be a while yet before you completely regain control over the data apps store about you. However, app creators can file for an extension to give themselves more time to comply with the changes – with the extension lasting until May 31, 2024. Developers will have until Decemto submit answers to new questions in a Data Safety form, with App Store changes set to go live later at some point in early 2024.
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