The App Store does not protect consumers
&gt;Do you want to get out of the trial and avoid getting charged? Well, that&#x27;s a problem, an obstacle course for consumers.<p>I&#x27;m sorry what? Settings -&gt; Apple ID &amp; Purchases -&gt; Subscriptions -&gt; Choose subscription -&gt; Cancel Subscription<p>Or if going into the phone settings to manage your app store subscriptions doesn&#x27;t make sense to you, there&#x27;s also App Store -&gt; Account -&gt; Subscriptions -&gt; Choose subscription -&gt; Cancel subscription<p>It even tells you both when the subscription renews and how long you can keep using the features for even if you unsubscribe. Once you unsubscribe that&#x27;s it. Since the purchases go through Apple, unsubscribing means the developer can&#x27;t pull a Comcast and &quot;forget&quot;.<p>I even just now grabbed and app and started a &quot;free 1 month trial&quot; for their service. It shows up in the same subscription list and tells me when it will renew and  how much it will charge me. If I tell it to cancel the free trial, it even lets me know that I can continue to access the trial services until the end of the trial period next month.<p>How is any of that &quot;an obstacle course&quot;? Yes, I agree that it would be nice if trials defaulted to not auto-renewing or you were given a choice when starting a subscription. But managing what you&#x27;re subscribed to is about as simple as it gets.<p>Maybe the author is talking about an app that you subscribe to outside of the app store (e.g. Netflix or Spotify style). Certainly I can appreciate that you can lose track of your subscription there, but I fail to see how apple has any responsibility for &quot;not protecting&quot; you if you don&#x27;t actually go through their processes for being protected.