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

canyonblue737 said:
Problem. I had subs to family iCloud 2TB, family music, free AppleTV+, apple arcade, apple news. I switched to Apple One Premium.

1. All my service subscriptions correctly indicate they will end and be replaced with Apple One at the end of November. Thats fine.

2. The iCloud 2TB is the issue. Right now my family shares that with me. I have an apple ID account for media and purchases through iTunes, a separate Apple ID for myself (they are not the same, never have been), and an apple ID each for the other 3 members of my family. Everyone shares the current 2TB data pool. Right now settings shows that my $9.99 a month 2TB iCloud data package with renew on Nov 3rd and there is no indication it will be replaced by Apple One. Further when setting up Apple One it asked which family ID I wanted to associate the 2TB data package included in Apple One with... I could pick my media/store account, my personal account, or the personal account of any of my 3 family members. What does that mean? Is the 2TB of Apple One data NOT shared but everyone and all accounts? Is my separate $9.99 going to renew? I wonder what to do?

UPDATE!!! It seems my iCloud 2TB family plan was associated with my personal account and my Apple One associated with my media/store account. I was able to select the Apple One plan and CHANGE the iCloud 2TB association to my personal account and it then canceled my $9.99 family 2TB plan. Nothing was lost and all accounts continue to share the data. Had I missed this, and it would be very, very easy to... I would have been playing for Apple One PLUS $10 a month for 2TB of data. Check this if you have multiple accounts!
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Just done that, and it works really well. It even prompted me afterwards that the storage with Apple One wasn't the one I was using and I should change it.
 
Dorv said:
Might be worth subbing just to finally get this fixed. I'd much rather have one single Apple ID.
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Yeah I thought about this but I like having them separate: emails/files app in one and purchases in another but I totally get why most people would probably want to keep it as one.
 
richie510 said:
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.
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Mine did this automatically but I was already on the 2TB plan. Maybe if you have a lower plan it charges or I was just lucky.
 
Has anyone tried to cancel yet? Does it do the shady stuff where it will kill it instantly instead of allowing you the whole month and just not renewing after. Was thinking of just trying a month and see how it works with the VZW AM overlap, and would be more likely if I can just cancel instantly and get the month instead of forgetting to cancel if it turns out unfavorable

EDIT: just went for it and will watch what is done and weigh which combination of Apple Services and VZW Plans that give us just what we want will cost the least. Noticed that I had the 50GB iCloud and that was gone after we got Premier. Do only the higher ones stay added or is there a specific place I need to look. When I checked iCloud, it stated I had exactly 2TB with no extra 50GB to be seen anywhere
 
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cardfan said:
Good luck. Had to go to my sons iPad and cancel arcade manually. He’s part of my family plan. It should’ve vanished automatically and refunded but doubt I’ll see a refund either.
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I just called and a rep told me to cancel the subs for my daughter and wife under from their devices.
I’m going to do the premier plan as I am currently paying way over $30 for everything we subscribe to.
 
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you can stack your iCloud storage up to 4TB —————— I could transfer my movie/tv show server to here?? :D
 
tgwaste said:
careful to those that already have 2TB of storage. when you get apple one it will say you now have 4TB of space. you will need to manually cancel the stand alone 2tb plan.
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It reminded me to change this? Do you have everything on the same AppleID?
 
I was paying for 2TB of iCloud, it now shows 4TB.

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Is there a yearly plan for Apple One? AppleTV+ yearly plan is $50. Apple Music yearly plan is $99. So basically 16-20% off for yearly subscription. Would be nice if we could get Apple One for $300 per year!
 
Oman said:
Hmm.. so essentially with iTunes Match Apple allows for you to upload your non-drm file and download that file as non-drm as well. With Apple Music Apple allows you to upload your non-drm file but when you download it, it gives you a DRM version even if that file is not offered as part of Apple Music. They convert your NON-DRM to DRM and give it back to you unless you pay them not to do that. LOL
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Is that true? DRM on stuff not in their catalog?? Doesn’t make sense
 
HuRR said:
Not sure if this was discussed. Is there student pricing?
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No there's not. Nor should there be. What's with this student pricing for everything and anything these days? Students should pay the same amount for any product or service like the rest of us. I'm a combat veteran and I certainly don't ask for discounts for that reason. And if I, and my fellow brothers and sisters, don't get discounts a student certainly should not.

< rant mode off >
 
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TImm3h said:
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.
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That's different though. There were no ACTUAL DOLLARS coming out of your wallet that they can refund. If you are worried about it, just wait until your free trial is over and then subscribe.
 
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kayle12 said:
I have the same question. Please let me know if anyone figures this out.
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I just chatted with apple and they said to cancel the subscriptions on our iTunes account and have it under the iCloud. Clearly this isn’t going to work for most including me, so hopefully eventually they will have a solution for this.
 
Yet another Apple service I cannot take advantage of because Apple continues to make it impossible to handle accounts across multiple regions
 
SchizoBoy said:
BEWARE of canceling iTunes Match. Apple Music and iTunes Match use different song catalogs to "match" songs.

I lost HUNDREDS of songs when I canceled iTunes Match after paying for both services for 4 years...
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Wow. Is this true? I was gonna cancel Match and get Apple Music because all these comments saying Match is included in Apple Music.
 
NightFox said:
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.
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Yeah other people are seeing refunds but I see a lot of people getting refunds had prepaid for a year.

I don't see a refund on mine yet - but it is glitchy.

FINALLY it updated to "Expires 11/09/2020" - but I had cancelled it myself. <shrug>. :p I did the same thing for Apple Music and Apple TV.
 
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I am currently subscribed to 6-month free Music trial, and Apple TV+ trial is already extended till February, so I will pay for this from February 2021.

I will save money if I take the family plan to include Music for family, that way I get Apple TV+ for free (that I care about) and Arcade (that I do not care about) basically for a little less than the price I am paying currently for Music and iCloud 200 GB.
 
Someone needs to build a savings calculator. I.e checkbox for the services you currently have to see if it's worth it. Hint.
 
Got the premium plan. Hubby is in my family sharing but hasn’t got access to anything. No news or iCloud storage. Do I need to do anything else? Is it because it’s the 30 day trial?
 
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