iOS 11.2 will enable free trial apps

November 7 news As we all know, in the Windows App Store, developers can provide free trials for their paid apps. During the free trial period, users can experience some or all of the app features. After the trial is over, they can decide whether to buy it or not, which is a relatively good experience.

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In Apple's App Store, it is basically a one-size-fits-all approach, either free, paid, or paid for the app subscription. However, this situation will change in iOS 11.2.

Apple pushed iOS 11.2 beta 2 to the developer preview channel early this morning. In the release notes, Apple mentioned an explanation for automatically updating subscription prices:

Soon, you’ll be able to offer discounted introductory prices for auto-renewable subscriptions on the App Store. iOS 11.2 introduces new classes (SKProductDiscount and SKProductSubscriptionPeriod) and new properties on SKProduct (subscriptionPeriod and introductoryPrice) to provide detailed information about the introductory pricing and billing period selected for auto-renewable subscriptions. You can use these new APIs to localize and display information about introductory pricing to your users. You’ll be able to configure introductory pricing on your In-App Purchase page in iTunes Connect soon.

This means that developers can offer free trial versions to users, and this change will introduce the option to offer price reductions for new subscriptions for a certain period of time.

Apart from this, iOS 11.2 beta 2 does not bring any new feature updates, but more performance improvements and bug fixes.