India, July 6 -- After a hiatus of almost of five years, Apple has re-enabled support for credit and debit card payments for subsequent app purchases and subscription transactions on the App Store. This means Apple is now fully in compliance with Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) card transaction tokenisation guidelines.

Currently, credit and debit cards on Mastercard and Visa networks can be set as a payment method to add money to the Apple Account, which can then pay for app purchases and recurring subscriptions including iCloud+. A credit or debit card cannot, for now, be used to make direct purchases on the App Store-those must be paid for through the Apple Account wallet.

The support for Visa and Mastercard cards to add money, is a pha...