New subscription renewal rate in TestFlight

Hi! Could you please clarify when and why the subscription auto-renewal rate in TestFlight was changed to a daily cycle? Now, the subscription lasts for 6 days! This is causing significant issues in testing. Previously, the 5-minute auto-renewal for weekly subscriptions was an excellent solution.

Is there a way to adjust the auto-renewal timing for an account in TestFlight?

Documentation link: https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/test-a-beta-version/subscription-renewal-rate-in-testflight.

Thank you for your clarification!

the 5-minute auto-renewal for weekly subscriptions was an excellent solution.

Well it might be good if you’re only testing the subscription renewal process, but if you want your beta testers to evaluate anything else they are going to be totally distracted by the constant subscription noise.

Is there a way to adjust the auto-renewal timing

This is what we really need. ”File a bug”, ha ha ha.

We have the same problem with our apps since a few days: Installing the app via TestFlight and buying a monthly subscription gives a subscription period of 24 hours instead of 5 minutes like all the years before. This makes testing the end of a subscription really hard because it now takes so long for it to expire.

We're having the same issue for all of our apps. We used to be able to get through a full cycle of the monthly subscription in 30 minutes (6 renewals every 5 minutes). Now if it's going to take 1 day for the renewal that means it will take 6 days to test a full monthly subscription which slows down the testing process significantly.

To make matters worse is we can't manage our subscriptions within sandbox settings to cancel and expedite the process a little. We get a "cannot connect" error which is a whole separate issue. Apple please help!!

We're having the same issue for all of our app.

No way to normally testing subscriptions

No way to cancel subscription in testflight because there is no way to cancel or remove subscription

Apple please give us instrument to control renewal subscription rate, 1 day is too much

New subscription renewal rate in TestFlight
 
 
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