Following the discharge of iOS 17.4 earlier this month, Apple has launched an enhanced redesign of the Buy Historical past part in your Apple ID, permitting you to view significantly extra element on every buy and filter by date and sort of buy.
Though iOS 17.4 made a slight change to make Buy Historical past extra accessible, this merely supplied a quicker strategy to get into the Buy Historical past part immediately from the App Retailer app. The Buy Historical past pages themselves remained unchanged.
Particularly, getting an inventory of your previous App Retailer purchases beforehand required a visit into the Settings app, the place you then needed to browse down by way of your Apple ID (your title on the high of the display screen) after which choose Media & Purchases > View Account, after which scroll down and faucet Buy Historical past.
That methodology nonetheless works, but it surely was cumbersome and never simply discoverable. So, Apple added a shortcut in iOS 17.4 to allow you to get there straight from the App Retailer by tapping your profile picture within the top-right nook after which deciding on Buy Historical past from the following display screen that appeared. That’s arguably a extra logical place to search for this info, and it’s additionally solely two faucets quite than 4 faucets and a swipe.
Nevertheless, this alteration additionally seems to have been in preparation for a revamp of the acquisition historical past pages. Since these pull info out of your Apple account, they’re pushed by Apple’s back-end servers quite than baked into iOS.
Whereas it’s not fully clear when this occurred, someday over the previous few days, Apple turned a key on that back-end, unlocking some extra helpful methods to view your buy historical past.
Beforehand, the Buy Historical past display screen solely allowed you to flick through your most up-to-date purchases and filter by date. Tapping on a person buy would present further info, together with the fee sort used, billing deal with, and any tax info, and supplied a button to resend your receipt by electronic mail.
The redesigned buy historical past adjustments that detailed structure whereas additionally including a button to report an issue with a purchase order to Apple — one thing that might solely be completed by way of an online browser earlier than. When viewing a subscription, you’ll additionally see a button to handle your subscription, which takes you on to the web page for that particular subscription, with choices to cancel an lively subscription or renew one which’s expired.
What’s extra vital is which you could now filter and search in your buy historical past.
Filtering standards have expanded past merely a date vary, letting you slender down your outcomes by paid or free apps, the kind of buy, and the member of the family who made the acquisition (for those who’re a part of a Household Sharing group).
Sort of buy enables you to filter the checklist to see solely apps, in-app purchases, subscriptions, music, movies, books, AppleCare+ plans, or “Different.” That final class contains issues like cash added to your Apple account
You too can now search by way of your buy historical past by title, worth, or order ID by tapping the sphere on the high. Looking out by worth is a very helpful means to determine what a seemingly mysterious App Retailer transaction in your bank card was for.
Sadly, there’s a catch right here that’s a bit disappointing: your search is simply carried out inside your filter standards. In different phrases, if you wish to seek for one thing you bought final yr, you could set the filter date vary to “Final Yr” earlier than conducting your search.
To make issues much more sophisticated, there’s no strategy to take away the date filter to look by way of your total buy historical past. At most, you may filter by an entire yr, however for people like me who’ve practically 20 years of buy historical past, looking out a yr at a time remains to be a bit cumbersome. Looking out archived iTunes receipts in Gmail is far quicker (which is why I by no means delete any of my receipts).
However, this new Buy Historical past display screen is a giant step ahead for individuals who want to trace down latest purchases. The default date ranges of 30 days, 90 days, this yr, and final yr must be all that most individuals want to make use of usually, and the power to filter by sort and search by title and worth is a recreation changer when that you must match issues as much as reconcile your bank card assertion together with your App Retailer habits.