Amazon Disables Its Authentic iOS App in India, Clients Required to Change to New App or Use Web site

Amazon has lastly disabled its unique iOS app for patrons in India, and is now asking them to both swap to its new ‘Amazon India – Store and Pay’ app or use the Amazon.in web site to buy from their Apple gadgets. The brand new change comes a number of months after the US e-commerce large positioned a splash display on its older iOS app encouraging customers to change to the brand new app that features help for scanning Unified Funds Interface (UPI) QR codes and join the Amazon Pay UPI service.

If you have already got the unique Amazon app in your iOS system, you may be taken on to the Amazon.in web site when you open the app. Which means that you’ll not be capable to make any purchases by way of the present app.

Previous to the newest replace, the older Amazon app was displaying a splash display that was warning customers about its disappearance by saying, “Help for this app will cease quickly.” The banner, nonetheless, included a button to dismiss the warning, which is not out there. As a substitute, the brand new change has changed that dismiss button with a hyperlink that reads, “Store on Amazon.in web site.”

Amazon’s outdated app was earlier displaying a dismiss button however is now giving a hyperlink to its web site

As per the main points supplied by Amazon on its help web page (accessible solely by way of cellular gadgets), the brand new change is aimed to “improve the buying and fee expertise of iOS prospects.” The corporate has additionally assured prospects that by switching to the brand new app, their current buying historical past, subscriptions, fee devices, and addresses might be routinely migrated.

An electronic mail despatched to Amazon India for a touch upon the replace did not elicit a response till the time of publishing this story.

You will need to level out that references of the brand new Amazon app for iOS prospects in India are there from as early as January. The brand new app additionally co-existed on the App Retailer with the unique one initially. Nevertheless, Amazon finally hid the unique app from the App Retailer for patrons in India and made solely the native model out there for obtain.

You probably have the unique ‘Amazon – Purchasing made straightforward’ app in your Apple system, you need to uninstall it as it’s of no use now. You’ll be able to obtain its new model from the App Retailer, ‘Amazon India – Store and Pay’. Alternatively, you’ll be able to proceed buying on Amazon by accessing its web site out of your iPhone or iPad.

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