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Saturday, June 15, 2024

I'm Arresting This iPhone For Theft

So, I recently noticed that my iPhone was popping up with all of these random subscription renewal notices. Most of them weren't much, just little apps I've collected over time and now can't live without.

They make this way too easy. 
But one popped up for some obscene amount of money, like $60, and I remembered that somewhere, back in the Mists of Time, I had desperately needed to create a meme involving Donald Trump's head photoshopped onto the body of Jaba The Hut, and I was probably drunk at the time, and anyway shut up all of you, there's a reason I was spent two weeks in one of South Florida's finest rehabs. 

This immediately set me upon an iPhone safari. How many of these damn things did I have attached to my account? What did they even do? And most important, how much were these things costing me each month!? 

My bank app was no help. The only thing showing up was a generic "APPLE.COM" in the description. Eventually I stumbled into my settings, and found a menu item for subscriptions. There I saw them all listed, with a picture of the app so I could identify what it was. 

And, in all but one case, immediately deleted them all. By some miracle, most of them were due to renew at the end of this month. All told, I saved myself about $140 bucks that would have disappeared, for a bunch of apps I never used and won't miss.  



  

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