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I'm pretty fastidious about making sure I read the fine print and don't get caught paying anything for apps when I don't purposely press the button knowing I'm making an "in app purchase." I downloaded a QR code/bar code reader and found out it was charging me $49.99/yr for it's "premium" version of the app! Also paying $7.99/wk for one other game that I played exactly once.

Here are the mistakes I made:
- My appleID is an old email address that I do not check unless I'm expecting something (like I ordered something from the apple store to check tracking).

Here is what I did to correct those mistakes:
- I changed my appleID to an email I check regularly so that any purchases based on my appleID can be seen in my inbox easily.
- I normally don't pay too much attention to activity on my bank account but my debit card is linked to my AppleID, so I check now for any "itunes" purchases.

There is a way to check your "subscriptions" but the process is very unfriendly. I stumbled across this while upgrading my Hulu subscription to commercial free.

In the FAQs I found this link:

https://help.hulu.com/en-us/ma...-billed-subscription

It rolls to logging into the appleID maintenance page. There you can view all of your subscriptions. Ironically, there is a section in settings in iOS to view subscriptions but I could not find the button to actually show me the subs; it only let me see after clicking the link from the hulu page. I have an AppleTV and can see any subscription service I subscribe to on this page.

The real irony is I was just re-upped for the of QR code reader premium for $49 in September... Yay... Ugh.



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