You Should Check if There Are Cheaper Subscriptions for Your iPhone Apps

Those recurring subscriptions can kill you. First it’s 4 bucks a month here, then it’s $30 a year there. It adds up. And if you set up your subscription payments to be automatically deducted, you may not even see how much you’re paying each month.

If you’re an Apple user and have monthly subscriptions, you may have paid for these with Apple Pay, which means these subscriptions can be managed from your Apple ID. And having all of these subscriptions in one place can be a good thing, because it allows you to quickly and easily check if there are cheaper options.

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I’ll quickly explain where you can find your app subscriptions on your iPhone or iPad, and how you can check to see if there is a way you can pay less for the apps you’re already subscribed to.

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How to check your iPhone for cheaper app subscriptions

If you’ve bought a monthly subscription via Apple Pay, you can find all your monthly or yearly app subscriptions in one place on your Apple device. In the Settings app, tap your name at the top of the page and then go into Subscriptions. Here you’ll find all the active app subscriptions connected to your Apple ID, as well as inactive, or applications that you used to pay for but no longer do.

To check if an app has a cheaper subscription option that you might not know about, tap a subscription and then hit See All Plans.

 Here you’ll see a list of every subscription option you can choose from, including the price per month you would have to pay.

Sometimes apps come out with cheaper subscriptions. Maybe they introduce a tier with advertisements, like the $7 a month ad-supported plan that Netflix has.

Other times, you might simply not know about certain subscription options, like family plans, which you can save money on if you have enough family and friends to add to the account, or student plans, which you can save money on if you’re currently a student in a degree-granting university. You could also save money on paying for an entire year instead of monthly, but that does require more money upfront.

Either way, it doesn’t hurt to check to see if there are cheaper subscription tiers. And worst (or maybe best) case, you just cancel your subscription instead, and end up saving a whole lot more.