To promote payments using the Apple ID balance, the company is now offering a 20 percent bonus to users in India who add funds to their ID. Users in the region can now benefit from this incentive by simply adding funds to their Indian IDs.

Interesting, Apple giving 20% extra to Indians who add funds to their Apple ID pic.twitter.com/WQEIPqUI1q

— Mustafa (@mufasaYC) October 16, 2021

The news arrives after the Cupertino based giant notified developers regarding a change in Indian’s local payments system. Now, the iPhone maker is asking developers to promote the payments being made through the Apple ID balance, with the company now offering a 20 percent bonus to Indian users that are adding funds on their IDs. This was also shared by developer Mustafa Yusuf on Twitter (Via 9To5Mac).

Furthermore, this promotional offer is valid through 31st October 2021 and will be available when adding 100 to 15,000 INR (roughly from 1 to 199 US Dollars) to the Apple ID. In other words, if a user adds 2,000 INR to their Apple ID, they can avail a bonus of 400 INR on their account. Similarly, if the funds being added amounts to 10,000 INR, then the bonus amount will include an extra 2,000 INR.

Notably, the move from the brand arrives as a new directive from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) mandates banks to require user approval through a new authentication system in order to approve recurring transactions using credit and debit cards. The smartphone maker stated that the new directive will impact apps with the auto renewable subscription payment systems, so it has asked developers to promote payments from its the company’s ID balance as it won’t be affected by the new changes from RBI.

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In a recent Apple ID theft case in China, where Apple has denied compensation for some victims has got under the China Consumer Association lens. It has directed the Cupertino company to compensate all the users who have been the victim of the recent Apple ID scam in China. In the recent past, Apple cited an internal investigation that took place and revealed that the consumer accounts were hacked by phishing critical data via different schemes.

Even, consumers get to know about the Apple IDs being hacked when they received a bill of few thousand dollars in the statements. Those victims than appealed to Apple for compensation of the scammed amount. Apple compensated for some users, but many were left without any return. Later, the users who denied any kind of favour from Apple’s side reported the issue to China Consumer Association. Now, after a few days, the Chinese consumer body has criticised the Cupertino giant. They said in a statement that the company should understand its responsibility and compensate consumer’s full amount back.

In its own words, the association said, “Apple should not shift the blame, play down its own safety issues and divert consumers’ attention.”

Earlier, Apple directly pulled the blame on users by saying that the theft has happened because the two-factor authentication was not active on those accounts. Later Apple even said it in an official statement that, “small number of our users’ accounts were accessed through phishing scams where two-factor authentication was not enabled”. Even, Apple marked it as an issue that is related to the fraudulent iPhone warranty replacements which already costs billions to Apple.

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Yesterday, the case was trending in the top 10 topics on Weibo in China. Apple remarks are awaited on the matter as yesterday they declined to comment on it.

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