Check little-known iPhone menu to find ‘vampire bill’ that silently drains your bank account
DON’T end up paying over the odds for an app you never use.
A “vampire” subscription may be draining your bank without you realising.
Many apps on the Apple App Store allow you to sign up for a subscription.
Maybe you once needed a service and were willing to pay for it.
Or perhaps you signed up for a free trial and simply forgot to cancel it.
Whatever the case, it’s important to check your iPhone Subscriptions tab to see what you’re forking out for each month.
You might find that you can instantly save a bit of cash.
How to check iPhone subscriptions
To find your subscriptions, load up the Apple App Store.
Now tap on your profile picture in the top-right corner.
Look for the word Subscriptions and then tap it.
This will show you a list of your active subscriptions, as well as inactive ones at the bottom.
If you tap on an active subscription, you’ll see the fee it charges you.
And you’ll also be able to see the date that the subscription is set to renew.
There may be a See All Plans button so that you can change the type of subscription you have with that app.
And there should be a big red Cancel Subscription button.
This will typically prevent the subscription from renewing, but still allow you to access the perks of the plan until the final day pre-renewal.
If you have a lot of subscriptions, a good idea would be to use the Sort function in the top-right.
That way you can arrange the apps by their price, or even their renewal date.
It should make it easier to quickly go through your Subscriptions and cull any that you don’t need any more.
It’s also important to make sure that Renewal Receipts is turned on on at the bottom of this page.
“A receipt will be sent to you each time one of your subscriptions renews,” Apple explained.
“Receipts are always available in Apple ID settings > Purchase History.”
That way you can easily keep track of your renewing subscriptions.