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Apple One is Now Available: Save Money by Bundling Apple Music, iCloud Storage, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and More
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My biggest frustration with this is they didn’t think through prorating Apple Music annual subscribers, which was introduced in June 2015. So, many of us just had our annual subscription renew a few months ago and our choice is: 1) wait ~8-months until your miscellaneous trials and annual Apple Music subscription end before bundling, or 2) bundle now without receiving a prorated refund of the majority of your $99 payment -even though you’re keeping Apple Music and paying more money for it. Apple did not think this part through and did a terrible job explaining it, which is why we’re all scrolling through pages of this forum looking for answers to reasonable questions. Apple should have kept this simple, “Apple One customers will receive a prorated refund for all other Apple subscriptions (e.g. Apple Music, Apple Arcade, etc.) replaced by their Apple One subscription.”
Also not feeling optimistic how the Fitness+ free trial will play out for those of us who bought an Apple Watch Series 6...
Also not feeling optimistic how the Fitness+ free trial will play out for those of us who bought an Apple Watch Series 6...
Seems to be a right mixed bag of success with this.
My wife and I both subscribed to Apple Music separately and we also each pay for additional 50gb iCloud storage. I also have a free Apple TV+ subscription that has been recently extended until end of February. I decided to go through the family plan and not only has it given me a free month until end of November (which is when we would pay our next Music subscription) and I have previously trialled Arcade), but now for what we were paying for Apple Music, we get Apple TV+, 200gb of iCloud storage, plus Arcade (which my 8 year old will love).
I found the process seamless, including sharing with my wife to accept. My subscriptions are also showing as updated too.
My wife and I both subscribed to Apple Music separately and we also each pay for additional 50gb iCloud storage. I also have a free Apple TV+ subscription that has been recently extended until end of February. I decided to go through the family plan and not only has it given me a free month until end of November (which is when we would pay our next Music subscription) and I have previously trialled Arcade), but now for what we were paying for Apple Music, we get Apple TV+, 200gb of iCloud storage, plus Arcade (which my 8 year old will love).
I found the process seamless, including sharing with my wife to accept. My subscriptions are also showing as updated too.
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Lucky duck; all in total I got less refunded to me then the cost of Apple Music alone. Maybe I’ll get more later?
Totally agreed. I have a new watch and phone, with the accompanying free trials, along with an annual music subscription. I shouldn't have to do the math to see when it's cost-effective for me to sign up to One.
Difficult to tell at the moment with so much happening. As soon as I subscribed my refunds showed up.
It's a ridiculous jump, 500 GB for the middle tier seems more appropriate. 200 GB is a joke, especially considering most people with the bundle will use it with family sharing.
If you subscribe it’s free for the first month you can then check the subscription automatically and it shows whether you are saving money or not by hitting choose individual services .... it gives you a breakdown by cost .... no math required
Yeah, they indicate in your purchase history that it is refunded, turns out. They just don’t tell you that they are doing it
Nope. Haven’t seen a refund yet for anything.
My 4tb adjusted to the 2tb as the other icloud services as add ins to my existing plan, like many of you all of my services got billed today and got refunded as we speak for the charges of this month!
I have an important question. If you use 2 Apple IDs, one main one that you use for Mail, Messages, Photos, etc., and another for media (ie. iTunes) purchases, which account should the Apple One subscription be on, assuming you want family sharing? Right now everything works and my family members can use everything I have, I don't want to choose the wrong thing and screw it up.
I purchased mine with my Apple ID that I use for all purchases as normal .... I have a separate Apple ID that I use for iCloud ..... once you subscribe it let’s you nominate the account that you want to use for iCloud storage. So mine is split.
it gives you a breakdown by cost .... no math required
Respectfully, I think you’re missing the point.
Apple TV+: Paid subscription extended to February; Apple One adds no value to me here until end of February 2021
Apple Music: Paid subscription through June 2021; Apple One adds no value to me here until June 2021.
Fitness+: “Late 2020”. I get a 3-month free trial for buying an Apple Watch; Apple One adds no value to me until ~ March 2021.
iCloud: Already paying monthly; paying more money for Apple One does not make sense, until above subscriptions end.
Arcade/News+: I don’t pay for these; this would be the only value I gain but it would be cheaper to add them individually, again, until the above subscriptions end.
Loyal Apple Music annual subscribers are not incentivized to bundle for months, especially if they bought an Apple Watch this cycle. Apple could fix that by prorating annual subscription refunds which would convince these customers to start paying Apple more money immediately.
How do you sign up for free Arcade? Is there a date restriction for when the iPhone 12 was ordered?
Here's what I want to know... I have an iTunes account associated with an old @hotmail account from my PC days... but I also have an iCloud email account that is my primary email account. My purchases, data, and subscriptions are tied to my Hotmail ID... when you sign up, can you see all your purchases from one account? Or do you still have to flip back and forth between the 2?
Do you know they don’t refund annual subscriptions?
Reality is not everyone will save !
my point is .... subscribe and look at the automatic breakdown .... it will tell you if you are saving and if not gives you the option to carry on subscribing individually (or keeping your existing subscriptions)
Can anyone share a screenshot of a prorated refund of their annual Apple Music subscription? I see screenshots of refunds for monthly services, but I haven’t seen any for annual services. Thank you!
For the life of me I can't get all services on MacOS. I've signed out of iCloud and rebooted but even setting it all up again only News+, Arcade and iCloud drive seem to work. TV+ and Music aren't seeing the subscription. I still have an active TV+ sub also and it worked fine on Mac before Apple One but now it's just suggesting a trial/sub. My wife's phone is lacking Music and TV+ also. Only my phone seems to be working on all services.
Anyone else having problems or tips to fix it?
Probably just going to be janky for a few days or something. I hope that's all. Still happy it came out though.
EDIT: Hitting the trial/sub prompt on TV+ then prompted for my Apple ID which then just seemed to load it all in. It fixed music also. Huzzah!
Anyone else having problems or tips to fix it?
Probably just going to be janky for a few days or something. I hope that's all. Still happy it came out though.
EDIT: Hitting the trial/sub prompt on TV+ then prompted for my Apple ID which then just seemed to load it all in. It fixed music also. Huzzah!
Yes, 14.1, no luck yet, as I said before maybe need to wait until tomorrow because Apple Music got renewed today and iCloud storage yesterday.
Ditto here (refunds on News+ and Storage, but not on Family Music, which just renewed a couple hours after I upgraded to Premier).
I'm in Germany and can get Apple One subscription under Aplle id, Subcriptions, Get Apple One.
Did it via my iPhone