We have an iOS app with features similar to a blog or most social apps, ie creators can make posts. We want to allow other users to be able to subscribe to a creator to access their premium content, eg the OnlyFans model.

After reading through a ton of threads and docs, I used to think user-to-user auto-renewing subscriptions weren’t possible with In-App Purchases for a few reasons, the main one being that every subscription group has to be created by the app developer and reviewed by Apple before it can be used. I even contacted RevenueCat to ask about this and they said it wasn’t possible without using a 3rd party payment service like Stripe, which we all know is a good way to get removed from the app store.

Recently I’m starting to see more iOS apps supporting this model, such as Instagram and Patreon. I’m thinking something may have changed, but I’m not sure what. Does anyone know how these big companies are implementing auto-renewing user-to-user subscriptions with In-App Purchases?