Have to buy the IF app again?

So I admittedly have not touched IF since the summer began. Xplane 11 grabbed my interest and I thought I’d play them while I waited for global. But since FVA has an event today, I went to the app and reloaded it (dusted it off) and went to by a live subscription. I entered all the stuff I needed to and right before it purchased the subscription…the whole app crashed. I went back to my desktop and it was missing.
I speant maybe five minutes confused and looking for it before I went to the App Store to just open it from there. I found the photo above.
Do I seriously have to pay for an app I already bought? I mean yes I haven’t played in a bit but I’ve never had an app that I have bought that requires a payment after you’ve bought it.
I was hoping someone could help me out with this before the FVA event.

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This shouldn’t happen unless you´re on a different Apple ID, eventually try and click restore purchases in the bottom of the App Store page.

Or perhaps FDS just really need money ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Go to your purchases in the appstore. Should be there.

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Okay…how do I find that lol. I’m not the best at figuring these things out.

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As @emil mentioned, this can’t happen if you’re on the same Apple ID you were as when you purchased the app to begin with. You should see a cloud with an arrow pointing downwards.

However, if you are signed in to the same account and App Store still tells you to purchase it you have to contact Apple.

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In the bottom you should have the “categories”, “updates”, etc. Right there.

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I just went there and IF is not under purchased “on iPad” or “not on this iPad”

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Then you have to contact Apple, as it´s most likely an issue on their end.

I personally haven’t changed my Apple ID but I know my dad was working on his new iPhone and we are connected via the cloud. So maybe that messed things up?

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Then I have no idea what is going on. As Seb said, I think it is up to Apple.

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Thank you Nicochile2 and @emil and @schyllberg for your help guys. Means a lot.

That Cloud family thing can mess up a whole lot of things. If you were to disconnect from that it’ll probably work.
Speaking from experience there…

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Ran out of likes 😉. Wish you luck.

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Okay I’ll make sure to look into that. Thank you.

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