FAQ: How Apple’s new App Store subscriptions affect you

Seemingly out of nowhere, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, gave interviews to several news outlets about significant changes to certain App Store policies around subscriptions—notably letting all apps potentially offer automatically renewing subscriptions. The company followed up with a page on its developer site describing what’s coming.
This update might have far-reaching effects, or they might fizzle. For current owners of apps that imple