Subscription and account

Fold’em offers two subscriptions and Apple bills both: 1 month and 12 months, with US prices of $9.99 and $49.99.

• Two subscriptions, one job
• The plan is not the protection
• Choosing a subscription
• What this does not do

All three happen in the App Store, because Apple handles the billing and Fold’em never touches it.

• Apple holds the billing
• Cancelling, and what it does not do
• Changing plan
• Refunds

Restore purchases sits in two places: the foot of the paywall, beside Terms and Privacy, and the Subscription page in the Settings tab.

• What restoring asks for
• When you need it
• Why a cold app stays blocked
• The two places it lives

Protection needs two things at once: an active subscription and protection that is still running. Lose the subscription and the phone stops being entitled, so a 72 hour lapse window opens on the server; when it runs out the server releases the shields, whatever you committed to. If you have a keyholder or supporters, they are told your protection is ending, because the news starts from Apple's own notification to our server, so a lapse reaches them even if your phone never checks in again. Renewing inside the window closes it and nothing is released.

• Two inputs, one gate
• The 72 hour lapse window
• What your circle is told
• What you see, and what they see

Every subscriber gets one eight character code, and anyone who enters it before buying gets their first month free instead of the usual 7 day trial.

• One code, eight characters
• Their side: a free first month
• Your side: a free year, at three
• Sharing it, and collecting it

Open the Settings tab, tap Account, then Delete account.

• Why it waits
• The two ways through
• Cancelling stays easy
• What finishing removes

Fold’em keeps the minimum a server needs to hold your lock: your Apple sign in identifier, your protection and the day it started, how many things you blocked as counts, periodic readings saying whether protection is still on, and, if you have one, your keyholder's arrangement.

• What is on the server
• What site blocking sends
• What never leaves the phone
• What Fold’em never does

Some come from Fold’em’s server, some come from people in your circle through it, and some come from your own phone. Settings › Notifications has a master switch and a switch for each kind of news from your people: Encouragement, Reminders, Milestones and Protection ending. Requests have no switch and read Always, because each asks you to act. Every notification is display only: none of them can change your block, and unless you have allowed more they arrive quietly, in Notification Center, with no sound and no banner.

• Where they come from
• One page in Settings
• Quiet by default, and how to change it
• Changing what you get

Preferences is a row in the Settings tab, and its page holds four rows: Haptics, Share usage counts, SOS and Block screen.

• The four rows
• Choosing the block screen
• Finding them
• What this does not do