{"id":337498,"date":"2017-04-04T03:49:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T19:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/03\/apple-reimbursing-workflow-purchases\/"},"modified":"2017-04-04T03:49:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T19:49:56","slug":"apple-reimbursing-customers-who-recently-purchased-now-acquired-app-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apple-reimbursing-customers-who-recently-purchased-now-acquired-app-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Reimbursing Customers Who Recently Purchased Now-Acquired App Workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\" readability=\"70.438252058265\">Apple today began sending out emails to customers who purchased popular automation app Workflow in the last few weeks, letting them know that they&#8217;ll be receiving a refund for the purchase price of the app.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is handing out refunds because following its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/03\/22\/apple-acquires-popular-automation-app-workflow\/\">recent acquisition<\/a> of the Workflow app and team, it made the Workflow app free to download and removed some key functionality.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2016\/11\/workflowforios-800x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"707\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-533376\"\/><br \/>A <em>MacRumors<\/em> reader shared his refund email with us, and we&#8217;ve also seen several <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EggFreckles\/status\/848982236707815424\">reports<\/a> of Workflow refunds from Twitter.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12.731034482759\">\n<p>Dear iTunes Customer,<br \/>Thank you for purchasing Workflow by DeskConnect, Inc. Workflow is now available for free in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a>. Since you recently purchased this app, we have issued you a full refund in the amount of $3.23. These funds will be applied to your original payment method and may take up to five business days from the issue date to post to your account.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>iTunes Support Team<br \/>http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/itunes\/ww\/<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with Workflow, which is now owned by Apple, it&#8217;s an automation tool that allows users to create a variety of workflows to automate tasks like creating GIFs from a series of photos, translating an article, posting photos to multiple social networks at once, calculating a tip, and tons more.<\/p>\n<p>Following Apple&#8217;s acquisition of Workflow, there was an update to <a href=\"https:\/\/workflow.is\/whatsnew\">remove certain features<\/a>, including workflow functionality that involved Google Chrome, Pocket, LINE, Telegram, and Uber, likely for legal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Apple plans to keep Workflow available in the App Store, and it is now a free download. [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/workflow-powerful-automation-made-simple\/id915249334?mt=8\">Direct Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple today began sending out emails to customers who purchased popular automation app Workflow in the last few weeks, letting them know that they&#8217;ll be receiving a refund for the purchase price of the app.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is handing out refunds because following its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/03\/22\/apple-acquires-popular-automation-app-workflow\/\">recent acquisition<\/a> of the Workflow app and team, it made the Workflow app free to download and removed some key functionality.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2016\/11\/workflowforios-800x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"707\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-533376\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nA <em>MacRumors<\/em> reader shared his refund email with us, and we&#8217;ve also seen several <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EggFreckles\/status\/848982236707815424\">reports<\/a> of Workflow refunds from Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear iTunes Customer,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThank you for purchasing Workflow by DeskConnect, Inc. Workflow is now available for free in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a>. Since you recently purchased this app, we have issued you a full refund in the amount of &#36;3.23. These funds will be applied to your original payment method and may take up to five business days from the issue date to post to your account.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>iTunes Support Team<br \/>\n<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/itunes\/ww\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with Workflow, which is now owned by Apple, it&#8217;s an automation tool that allows users to create a variety of workflows to automate tasks like creating GIFs from a series of photos, translating an article, posting photos to multiple social networks at once, calculating a tip, and tons more.<\/p>\n<p>Following Apple&#8217;s acquisition of Workflow, there was an update to <a href=\"https:\/\/workflow.is\/whatsnew\">remove certain features<\/a>, including workflow functionality that involved Google Chrome, Pocket, LINE, Telegram, and Uber, likely for legal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Apple plans to keep Workflow available in the App Store, and it is now a free download. 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