Fraud: trial period without the possibility of canceling a subsequent paid subscription

There is at least one app in AppStore (Prisma: Photo Editor, Filters), that suggest 1 day of free trial, but if you accept it, your card will be charged next day for full price of year subscription, even if you already removed app from your device and canceled subscription during this free trial day. This looks like fraud.

Developers refuse to take responsibility for this.

Apple support chat confirms, that such situatioin is a kind of not ok, but they are not going to do anything about it at all.

  1. Is it a known issue of AppStore? Do you know other apps like this?
  2. Is there any chance for people that were forced to purchase such subscription to get a compensation?
  3. How to setup such trial and subscription settings for my app?

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I believe the minimum free trial period is 3 days. If you're really seeing a 1 day free trial offered, then that's hard to explain. Did this happen to you personally, or is this something that you've read about elsewhere?

"How to get compensation" - google "app store refunds". There is a web page with a "report a problem" button. Exactly what happens next may depend on where you live.