Amazon has lastly disabled its authentic iOS app for patrons in India, and is now asking them to both change to its new ‘Amazon India – Shop and Pay’ app or use the Amazon.in web site to buy from their Apple gadgets. The new change comes a number of months after the US e-commerce big positioned a splash display on its older iOS app encouraging customers to modify to the brand new app that features help for scanning Unified Payments Interface (UPI) QR codes and join the Amazon Pay UPI service.
If you have already got the unique Amazon app in your iOS machine, you may be taken on to the Amazon.in web site when you open the app. This signifies that you’ll now not have the ability to make any purchases by the present app.
Prior to the most recent update, the older Amazon app was displaying a splash display that was warning customers about its disappearance by saying, “Support for this app will stop soon.” The banner, nonetheless, included a button to dismiss the warning, which is now not obtainable. Instead, the brand new change has changed that dismiss button with a hyperlink that reads, “Shop on Amazon.in website.”
Amazon’s outdated app was earlier displaying a dismiss button however is now giving a hyperlink to its web site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 offered by Amazon on its support page (accessible solely by cellular gadgets), the brand new change is aimed to “enhance the shopping and payment experience of iOS customers.” The firm has additionally assured prospects that by switching to the brand new app, their current procuring historical past, subscriptions, fee devices, and addresses will likely be mechanically migrated.
An e mail despatched to Amazon India for a touch upon the update did not elicit a response till the time of publishing this story.
It is necessary to level out that references of the brand new Amazon app for iOS prospects in India are there from as early as January. The new app additionally co-existed on the App Store with the unique one initially. However, Amazon finally hid the unique app from the App Store for patrons in India and made solely the native model obtainable for obtain.
If you may have the unique ‘Amazon – Shopping made simple’ app in your Apple machine, you must uninstall it as it’s of no use now. You can download its new model from the App Store, ‘Amazon India – Shop and Pay’. Alternatively, you possibly can proceed procuring on Amazon by accessing its web site out of your iPhone or iPad.
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This post was last modified on June 27, 2020 4:30 am