📢 A Quick Heads-Up for iOS App/Apple Pay Users! 🍏💸
Added 2025-08-01 20:14:01 +0000 UTCJust a little PSA for anyone signing up, thinking of signing up or managing their membership via the Patreon iOS(Apple) App…
Apple charges a whopping 43% fee on all payments made through their app. That means if I’ve set a membership at £6, and you're subscribing via the Patreon app on your iPhone or using Apple Pay, you'll see it showing as £9(they round it up) — with that extra money going straight to Apple.
You're not getting extra perks for that price, and I'm not receiving any of it either. It’s just their cut for using the app. Which is completely ludicrous.
💡 My advice?
If you want to avoid that extra cost (and who wouldn’t), simply sign up or manage your membership through a browser — either on your phone, tablet, or desktop — by logging in directly to www.patreon.com and paying through here. I would avoid using Apple Pay(until I It’s the exact same experience, minus the unnecessary fees. You can then still continue to log in and use the iOS App, just don't use it for making the payments.
I also understand this may be different for different countries. I think in the States, you may have the option of using the iOS App and avoid paying the fee...I am unsure...But one thing is for sure, my membership is not £9. If you are seeing anything much north of £6(or anything north of $9USD) then you are paying a higher fee and likely the apple rate on top of it.
If you’re totally fine with it and want to support regardless — of course, thank you. But I’d rather you are not being overcharged and losing it to an Apple tax! So I would advise to use the browser for setting up payments.
Thanks for being here ❤️
Kacey xx
