When you redeem an Apple Gift card to your account and you now have a credit there, do you decide when you want to use it against your purchase, or does Apple automatically take it off your next purchase?
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Apple will automatically use your account balance first for any purchases. It'll also use it for any subscriptions you may have. You don’t get a choice if you want to use another payment method instead.
compwiz1202
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The one nice this about GCs is if you have family sharing, and someone has a balance on their ID, it will use that before hitting the shared payment. Wish they would just let adults put on their own method beyond just GCs.
MacDaddyPanda
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What if you want to do installment plan? It doesn't have the option at checkout to apply the gift card . Is there no way to use gift card this way?
The way it worked for me was I redeemed the GC and it put it in my account. Then the same day I went to make the purchase and it automatically applied my credit to the sale. See if that works for you.
MacDaddyPanda
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Only after go through with payment? Because at checkout when it tells you to double click for payment I don't see the gc applied.
MacDaddyPanda
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Yeah i csn apply it if i opt for ful payment. It's only if i choose installment plan it's not available
I think I read somewhere recently that Apple changed their rules on installments. This is probably one of them. $UCKS!
MacDaddyPanda
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