Apple to allow ‘reader’ apps to use external links

Apple has announced that it will now allow reader apps to offer a link to an external website so users can create and manage accounts outside of the App Store.

The company announced that reader apps can now link their users to the developer’s website for account creation and management.

With the update of App Store Review guideline 3.1.3(a), developers of reader apps can now request access to the External Link Account Entitlement, the company said in a statement.

Reader apps are apps that provide one or more of the following digital content types magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music or video as the primary functionality of the app.

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