Can I cancel immediately after I start the trial (so I don’t have to remember to cancel at the end of the three months) and still have the full three months?
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Apple News+ Offering Extended Three-Month Free Trial Through Monday
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If you cancel the free trial, you lose access. Just set your calendar to cancel 48 hrs before it ends. Simple.
I'm really unhappy that Apple duped me (and so many people) into paying for what looked like a free trial. I am used to the idea of authorizing free trials with the double-click/face ID thing (since it is agreeing to turn into a subscription after the trial).
To pop up the offer (and I'd honestly forgotten at the moment I'd tried a free trial before) and then just bill you without a warning is pretty sleazy and very much NOT a good look any way you cut it.
**** like this is what will assure that I will NEVER subscribe to their service in the future. Good job, Apple.
To pop up the offer (and I'd honestly forgotten at the moment I'd tried a free trial before) and then just bill you without a warning is pretty sleazy and very much NOT a good look any way you cut it.
**** like this is what will assure that I will NEVER subscribe to their service in the future. Good job, Apple.
You can thank content providers for that. Same as it was with Banks dragging their feet to Support Apple Pay. It's not the fault of Apple people refuse to make agreements and I would also say that the collective Population of Australia, Canada, United States and United Kingdom is hardly something one can call "small" as a total.
News+ isn’t that bad although I want to see it keep adding features. For those who keep asking who News+ is for, it’s a digital solution to those spending almost double per month on a single newspaper. Audio stories and Apple News Today are great for the car, and local news itself is great to have (although they need to add way more local locations for people to have). In the future, I hope Apple can add CNN, Fox News and MSNBC as Apple TV Channels to watch live feeds and on demand episodes like other Apple TV Channels function (may have to increase the price for something like that, but if it’s affordable enough it would complete the package in my opinion).
The way I see it, $10 a month for WSJ, Rolling Stone, and Men’s Health magazines alone make it a pretty good deal to me.
The way I see it, $10 a month for WSJ, Rolling Stone, and Men’s Health magazines alone make it a pretty good deal to me.
Feels like propaganda these days. I have the Apple One $29 tier and don't even use the app.
I signed for the trial, but was billed immediately. It was clearly stated that my first charge would be February 26.
Almost fell for the bait and switch of offering me something I’m ineligible for like some others did here.
I wish apple one had a way to mix and match only the services one wants and needs. I’d take News+ and iCloud max storage but have no interest in the rest. The way it is now is like the annoying cable company approach of separating and bundling the channels people want with a bunch of filler that they don’t want to make a few extra bucks. Not a good look, Apple, but I still love and support y’all!
I wish apple one had a way to mix and match only the services one wants and needs. I’d take News+ and iCloud max storage but have no interest in the rest. The way it is now is like the annoying cable company approach of separating and bundling the channels people want with a bunch of filler that they don’t want to make a few extra bucks. Not a good look, Apple, but I still love and support y’all!
I responded to a Twitter ad for the three month free trial. There was no mention of eligible users in the ad. Like others, I thought I had three months free when in fact the charged me immediately. Apparently I had a free month of it a long time ago. Again, this was not stated in the ad I responded too. Thirty bucks for three months doesn’t mean much for me individually with the tones of money I pay to Apple every year but I still think it was a big oversight on their part to not be clear with the terms.
This is like the 7th time they are trying to keep AppleNews+ on life support? They can keep giving free trials all they want, but at the end of three months.... the vast majority will still not pay for it. It's not because it's a "bad product" or even a bad idea. The reality is that most people can and do obtain their news free.... from numerous digital sites, so the incentive to pay for a curated news service is low for many.
Also the reality that most of us already are subscribed to dozens of other things, and we pay monthly for those subscriptions. A subscription newstand service is at the very very very bottom of most people's list of "necessary things" to pay for monthly. About as low-priority as having a monthly auto-shipment subscription to "TidePods" from Amazon's service.
The only hope I can see is for AppleNews+ to succeed as an item in a bundled subscription service, which is why AppleOne is actually a good idea.
AppleNews+ on its own, as an a la carte service.... methinks it cannot survive at the $9.99 price point. At $4.99 maybe?
Also the reality that most of us already are subscribed to dozens of other things, and we pay monthly for those subscriptions. A subscription newstand service is at the very very very bottom of most people's list of "necessary things" to pay for monthly. About as low-priority as having a monthly auto-shipment subscription to "TidePods" from Amazon's service.
The only hope I can see is for AppleNews+ to succeed as an item in a bundled subscription service, which is why AppleOne is actually a good idea.
AppleNews+ on its own, as an a la carte service.... methinks it cannot survive at the $9.99 price point. At $4.99 maybe?
That’s why you need to pay attention to the price before you double click that Face ID. I took advantage of this same deal when they offered it last year. Normally under the “price” section it will say “3 month trial/9.99 monthly after” but this time, since I’ve used it before, it just showed “9.99 a month.” To be fair it does say for new subscribers only, so be careful to anyone else wanting to use this. It’s definitely a GREAT TRIAL, but not worth paying for. Most of the “News+ exclusive” articles, you can usually google the headline and the publisher website will let you view 2-3 “premium” articles free. 😘 hope this helps
No thanks. I don’t even want this for free. News is awful. I spent 2+ hours configuring it for types of news I want (science, politics, and international namely) and still would get a majority of celebrity gossip drivel, plus way too many clickbait ads. Just an awful service.
The whole point of plans like Apple One is for companies to coax consumers into using additional services that they wouldn't normally have bothered with, for a reduced price or even free. For example, there will be Apple One subscribers who normally wouldn't bother with Apple TV+, but now Apple can report them as paid subscribers to the service which ties them tighter into the Apple ecosystem. Same with Health, when that launches it'll already have thousands of subscribers, and maybe some of those will be tempted into Apple Watch purchases to make full use of it.
Just allow people to choose what they want, and all you do is lose income compared to what they were willingly paying before.
If Apple News+ actually provided some quality newspapers for the UK - currently all they offer is The Times - then it might be worth it.
They need to provide _some_ quality and variety. Some choice. They need to offer the Financial Times, The Economist, The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Prospect, Harvard Business Review. In depth, interesting article based news sources.
As a Uk reader they offer the Times and the Atlantic which is occasionally relevant. That's not enough.
They need to provide _some_ quality and variety. Some choice. They need to offer the Financial Times, The Economist, The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Prospect, Harvard Business Review. In depth, interesting article based news sources.
As a Uk reader they offer the Times and the Atlantic which is occasionally relevant. That's not enough.
I don't use Apple News for the same reason I don't use Flipboard. I don't want to see Fox or Breitbart, or, for that matter, some of the phony "science" pages that were, at least when I used it, always popping up and telling me "proof of aliens on Mars" had been discovered alongside legitimate science and spaceflight items, or similar other content in my news feed. Maybe Apple News has changed but I can tailor Microsoft News and never be bothered by that crap. It is my go-to news aggregator on the iPhone. I truly wish MS would export the Win 10 News app to the Mac. It's wonderful and looks amazing in widescreen mode in 4K or on a tablet. I realize Apple News is more than a news aggregator like MS News but I'll be damned if I'll pay for what they offer. I suppose if you subscribed to real magazines it might be worth it.
apple news is annoying. it keeps trying to redirect from websites into it. Nope! Not interested.
mainstream news is fake and propaganda anyway
mainstream news is fake and propaganda anyway
There was not a link to terms and conditions. There was no explanation of ”eligible”. What does Microsoft and Samsung have to do with this?
Why so sensitive? 😆
I followed the link from here and landed on a page offering 3 months. When the purchase pop up appeared it said I had to pay straight away too. Luckily I spotted that so didn’t purchase.
You can always tell how despreate Apple wants people into AppleNews+ by the fact they keep offering trials, wherever necessary.
Its good for users, but Apple's never gonna make money if they keep giving users what they want... When are the charges starting?
Its good for users, but Apple's never gonna make money if they keep giving users what they want... When are the charges starting?
