Apple One is Now Available: Save Money by Bundling Apple Music, iCloud Storage, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and More

[oldsuttree]

With iTunes Match you can upgrade your library to higher quality, non-DRM'd versions, that you can keep even after you cancel your Apple Music subscription. I don't think you can do this with a regular Apple Music subscription.

The difference is, if I remember right, I looked into it years ago is this. If I have Match and download the tracks you uploaded or matched they will download without DRM. If you download anything with Apple Music you get DRM, whether it was matched or not. Can't remember what happens with unique stuff you uploaded.

The clearest answer is: “If you cancel Apple Music, any matched, uploaded, and purchased tracks you've downloaded will remain on their various devices and fully playable, but you'll lose your ability to stream any non-downloaded matched or uploaded tracks and access iCloud Music Library.”

“In short: All non-Apple Music tracks you own are matching to the iTunes Store catalog, with audio fingerprinting for better results, and they will show up as Matched or Uploaded on your auxiliary devices. DRM matching is gone: The only tracks encumbered by DRM from here on out will be those downloaded from Apple Music directly.”

and:

From Jim Dalrymple at The Loop:

This is, in fact, the same version of iTunes Match that iTunes users could pay for as a separate subscription since Apple began offering it years ago. I am one of those users. However, all subscribers to Apple Music will get the new version of iTunes Match at no extra cost.

 

[LazyMonkIE]

Apple Music includes iTunes Match.

Are you sure Music contains Match? I'm being billed for it separately still.

 

[eas]

Now that I've signed up for the trial I've discovered that Apple Arcade won't run on my wife's old iPhone 6. I guess I'll be cancelling at the end of the trial unless we really love AppleTV+.

 

[CE3]

Hopefully this means Fitness+ will be rolling out any day now.

 

[JBaby]

Except with Apple Music you have to deal with DRM. That's the defining difference between the two and why folks like me keep both subscriptions running.

It wasn’t a big deal to me. I’m already listening to Music. So I don’t care if my uploaded music has that same DRM because I have all of my DRM-free music backed up in three different plays. Plus that music is still DRM-free in the Music app on my iMac because I didn’t replace it with Music versions.

 

[DotCom2]

My Apple TV+ free subscription is due to end only in February 2021, if I sign up to Apple One will they discount Apple TV+ off the Apple One billing?

Why would they discount something you never paid for in the first place?

 

[RossMak]

I have signed up but my girlfriend isn’t getting Apple Music but is getting everything else

 

[rclmac]

I have the same question. Please let me know if anyone figures this out.

Yes it works. After you sign up for Apple One, it asks if you want to use the Apple One storage for your other iCloud account.

 

[jclardy]

So...any consensus on what happens to existing trials? I have 3 months Apple TV+ and 3 months Arcade, meaning if I subscribe and start paying it'll cost me more than just waiting...I'll probably wait till Fitness+ is out as well.

I currently pay $15 for music family, $10 for 2TB iCloud. So for $5 more a month I would get Fitness+, Arcade, News, and Apple TV.

 

[RoadRunner505]

Apple fixed their support link regarding AppleOne iCloud storage (it was dead earlier): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211784

 

[Biorunner]

Just upgraded to Premier - found it really easy. Already had the following and was paying £34.95 pm

Apple TV+
Apple Arcade
Apple Music (Family plan)
2TB iCloud (me only using 600GB)
200GB iCloud (wife only using 60GB)

Now it's £29.95 pm and I gain Apple News+ and Apple Fitness when it launches.

We already had a family group set up so iTunes/App store purchases were already coming out of one bank account.

iCloud storage sharing:
My wife was already in my family group so set up was simple. For the iCloud storage it sent her a message asking her if she wanted to keep her current 200GB plan or move to my 2TB plan - she chose my plan and the transition was seamless. Her plan gets a pro-rater refund as her 200GB was charged a few days ago.

Two email accounts:
I have a .mac email address for my data/settings etc and a gmail email address for iCloud purchases. AppleOne asked me if I wanted to continue this set up and I said yes.

Looks like they really thought this through unlike when Me accounts launched about a decade ago.

Well done Apple!

 

[Dorv]

Are you sure Music contains Match? I'm being billed for it separately still.

It's in the thread. Some of us (me included) were bamboozled, though apparently it's been well-discussed that it was included.

Based on the discussion though, it looks like whatever you get from Apple Music is DRM, even if it's your personally sourced and uploaded content. So if that matters to you, the annual $25 might still be worth it.

(The more I read this thread, the more I'm thinking I made the conscious decision back in the day to protect my sourced music for the $25/year).

 

[ukbootlegs]

Hopefully this means Fitness+ will be rolling out any day now.

Maybe in time for the November challenge

 

[rmoliv]

Why would they discount something you never paid for in the first place?

I have an Apple TV+ free trial so they shouldn't charge me the full Apple One price until my ATV+ trial ends... Got it? It's not that hard...

 

[NightFox]

I have the $9.99 2TB plan right now.

Just signed up for the Premier plan and now I have 4TB of iCloud storage! Guess I need to turn that off! lol.

Let me know how you get on with that - I downgraded my existing 2TB iCloud storage plan to 'none' but it's still showing I have 4TB (though I can't downgrade it to 'none' anymore so it must have gone through). Maybe it's leaving my original 2TB live till the next billing period, but that's pointless as I'm clearly not going to be needing to use any of that extra 2TB - it would only be sensible to issue a pro-rata refund.

 

[Dorv]

Two email accounts:
I have a .mac email address for my data/settings etc and a gmail email address for iCloud purchases. AppleOne asked me if I wanted to continue this set up and I said yes.

Might be worth subbing just to finally get this fixed. I'd much rather have one single Apple ID.

 

[bobenhaus]

Can someone check how much it is to add 2TB to the 19,95 family plan?

Probably an arm and a leg ?

 

[Dorv]

I have an Apple TV+ free trial so they shouldn't charge me the full Apple One price until my ATV+ trial ends... Got it?

They get it; they are saying they disagree that your FREE trial applies to Apple One.

 

[cpa100]

Apple Music includes iTunes Match:

Subscribe to iTunes Match - Apple Support

iTunes Match gives you access to all of your music on all of your devices, even songs that you've imported from other sources such as CDs.

support.apple.com

This isn’t so straightforward; yes it does but with a caveat. This is it -

Apple Music Uses DRM, iTunes Match Doesn't​

There can be long-term consequences for your music if you replace iTunes Match with Apple Music. The reason has to do with digital rights management.


Since the music in it are copies of your files, iTunes Match doesn’t use DRM. Apple Music, on the other hand, uses DRM to prevent access to Apple Music songs when a subscription has ended.


So, if you have a DRM-free song on your hard drive or in iTunes Match, and cancel your subscription, you can still enjoy the song. If you replace that song with one from Apple Music, the new version has DRM and only works while you have a subscription.

 

[dan71]

Premier’s subscription done ;-)
my mom was waiting to have it for news+ and I received notification from my son to approve game download...
nice !

 

[richie510]

PSA, if you are already paying for storage, you have to cancel that after upgrading to an Apple One plan, unless you just want like double storage.

 

[JBaby]

I pulled the trigger on the premier. No complaints so far except the 3 free months of apple tv+. wonder if they'll do something with that. no biggie if not.

I agree. The way I figure is tv+ was supposed to end in November anyway. The three month grace period while nice isn’t required for me. I would be paying for it anyway because I have CBS All Access and Showtime tv Channels.

 

[TImm3h]

Why would they discount something you never paid for in the first place?

You paid for it... The cost is baked into what you bought your phone for. For me I just activated the TV+ trial, its worth $72 CAD. I would hope to get a discount, otherwise there is no incentive to join Apple One. Its just like how everyone says Canadians get free health care. They don't its baked into the cost of their taxes.

 

[TImm3h]

I agree. The way I figure is tv+ was supposed to end in November anyway. The three month grace period while nice isn’t required for me. I would be paying for it anyway because I have CBS All Access and Showtime tv Channels.

The grace period is nice for you, but what about the rest of us who just activated a free year for the first time.

 

[compwiz1202]

Hopefully this means Fitness+ will be rolling out any day now.

Yea we're more excited about Fitness+ than One