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

[Shanghaichica]

What a joke...200 GB for a family is a crock. They give 50 GB to a individual, but a family of 6 get's 200...math dont add up. I know this is why they do it, but I'm a family of 2 forced into a 2 TB plan because I'm just over 200 GB...

I’m at 243GB and I’m on the 2TB and I honestly don’t care that I’m paying for the higher tier. I have 2 iPhones, 2 iPads and 2 MacBooks to back up. I also use iCloud Drive across all my devices and icloud photos. I’m only going to use more space s as time goes on.

 

[Shanghaichica]

Anyone know how I can share Apple Music with an android user. My husband uses an android phone. At the moment I share my YouTube premium family plan with him which is great for the YouTube features but now that they have closed down google play music, YouTube music is rubbish.

 

[Shanghaichica]

Signed up for teh family premiere, though also go charged music today so hopefully one of those gets refunded.

I’m sure you’ll get refunded. I signed up for the premier plan and I got refunded for News+, Apple Music, iCloud storage and arcade.

 

[Shanghaichica]

This thread is huge so apologies if covered but to put your mind at ease. I used iTunes Match years ago to upload rare Oasis live tracks and demos that have never seen the light of day on AM or iTunes. I cancelled Match when I subscribed to AM and am listening to them now via my AM account on my 11 Pro Max.

How do you get it to upload music? I’ve been subscribed to Apple Music since 2018 and it hasn’t uploaded any of my music which doesn’t have a match in Apple Music. I have to connect my iPhone to iTunes and have it transfer over manually from my iTunes library.

 

[Shanghaichica]

Crap, I didn't see a prompt to cancel existing subscription first... now to fight with Apple Support to make that happen, I guess.

All my other subscriptions were automatically cancelled and refunded when I signed up.

 

[matrix07]

Anyone know how I can share Apple Music with an android user. My husband uses an android phone. At the moment I share my YouTube premium family plan with him which is great for the YouTube features but now that they have closed down google play music, YouTube music is rubbish.

I’m guessing your husband has to sign up for Apple ID (using browser), then you need to add this ID to your family and now he can install Apple Music on his Android phone and get the music.

 

[matrix07]

How do you get it to upload music? I’ve been subscribed to Apple Music since 2018 and it hasn’t uploaded any of my music which doesn’t have a match in Apple Music. I have to connect my iPhone to iTunes and have it transfer over manually from my iTunes library.

In Apple Music settings turns on Sync Library if you haven’t done so already. Next on your Mac just drag an album you want to upload into Apple Music. It will try to match that with whatever it has. When it finds no match it will upload yours.

 

[iRobz]

How do you get it to upload music? I’ve been subscribed to Apple Music since 2018 and it hasn’t uploaded any of my music which doesn’t have a match in Apple Music. I have to connect my iPhone to iTunes and have it transfer over manually from my iTunes library.

I can’t comment on how it works now but before Apple Music I used iTunes and iTunes Match to upload music.

All that music I uploaded is still available to me despite cancelling Match ages ago and only using the music app on my iPhone to play music in ‘Apple Music’ as well as music in my ‘library’.

 

[cdcastillo]

It’s alive in México as well!!

 

[thartwick]

I just signed up for the Premier Bundle and everything works except for Apple Music. It keeps asking me to join when I try to listen. Anyone have that issue?

 

[BeatCrazy]

What? Me and my GF have family music and we definitely use our own cards for app and iTunes purchases. Just don’t enable purchase sharing.

If you have Apple Music family in plan you can share the music without purchase sharing. That’s what we do. Everyone in my family have they own credit cards. Works perfectly for us.

Ah, I see now.

This mostly solves my problem. I guess we’ve been taking advantage of Purchase Sharing for my kids. Sometimes they use Apps that I buy, or one kid will buy and shares with the other.

 

[Fried_Gold]

Signed up for the top tier, auto cancelled my current subs and gave me a month free of One, nice.

 

[Denny23]

Apple Music includes iTunes Match.

How?? For me they are separate services and have always been.. I'm paying for Apple Music yearly and I'm paying for iTunes Match yearly.

 

[pauloregan]

Now the dust has settled and the excitement of paying the richest company in the world in a slightly different way has died down, how may of us can say we are financially better off because of it all.

 

[BigMcGuire]

This email isn't entirely comforting. I got Apple Premier as a trial for 1 month (no other option) and then proceeded to cancel Music and iCloud and Apple TV.

Just got the above today. (I guess I hit 200GB instead of NONE, lol).

 

[MrCubes]

Well I, for one, am grateful for the Apple One bundle, and this thread. I have Music (family), Arcade, TV+, and 2TB of storage shared between us right now. I tried News+ and it sucks (not least because of all the ads!) and Fitness+ is not of any interest (I have my own programme).

So I'm currently paying £24.97/ month (or at least would be once my TV+ extended free year finishes). Was thinking paying an extra 2p/ month for News+ and Fitness+ isn't so bad, even if I'm not really interested in them (its occasionally nice to be able to see some of the paywalled News stories - and I like the idea of it).

But, in the course of this thread, I learnt that Music (as well as Arcade and TV+) have yearly subscriptions options at a discount (in the case of Music it's significant - a> £80 saving a year). I could be paying £16.58/ month for everything I need!

Suddenly £14ish/ month for two services I don't really want is not so attractive. I've switched my Music subscription over to yearly - will do the same for TV+ when it renews. Arcade I'm undecided on as the kids rarely use it now.

Now if merging my iCloud and store accounts was actually possible as part of this I might consider it!

 

[LestâtMayfair]

I called Apple Support and they said my pending Apple Music charge (which hit my credit card today) should come off and if it doesn’t within the next 1-2 days then I should call back. They also said if you upload music to the cloud that is not available in iTunes then you need iTunes Match (which is not included in Apple One).

That Support rep should likely be retrained, as iTunes Match has been included as a feature of Apple Music since day one! In fact, when you subscribe to Apple Music, Apple automatically refunds and cancels your iTunes Match subscription. The same as when you subscribe to Apple One, Apple refunds all of the individual subscriptions that are now within your bundle, that have renewed within the 30days prior to joining Apple One. Unless you subscribe to a bundle that has less iCloud storage than you already pay for. Apple One will upgrade storage but will not downgrade; you will continue to pay for the additional storage plan unless you cancel it, thank you.

 

[JBaby]

Ah, I see now.

This mostly solves my problem. I guess we’ve been taking advantage of Purchase Sharing for my kids. Sometimes they use Apps that I buy, or one kid will buy and shares with the other.

You may want to continue to share purchases now that Family Sharing supports sharing in-app purchases.

Now the dust has settled and the excitement of paying the richest company in the world in a slightly different way has died down, how may of us can say we are financially better off because of it all.

I am! I split the cost 3 ways. We used all the services except for News+, my Mom wanted it so I was going to subscribe for her. I’m the Family Organizer. Both Mom and sister want Fitness+. I wanted 2TB. The only service we didn’t pay for was tv+ because we had the free year. I don’t mind forfeiting the free extra three months because we were going to stay subscribed because we have CBS All Access and Showtime tv Channels. Essentially Showtime is free if you’re subscribed to tv+. We really liked the shows on tv+.

 

[mcdj]

How?? For me they are separate services and have always been.. I'm paying for Apple Music yearly and I'm paying for iTunes Match yearly.

From Apple.“If you have an Apple Music membership, you get all of the benefits of iTunes Match”

I would take a good look at my bill(s). If they have been double charging you, they should issue a refund.

 

[JBaby]

From Apple.“If you have an Apple Music membership, you get all of the benefits of iTunes Match”

I would take a good look at my bill(s). If they have been double charging you, they should issue a refund.

I doubt they’ll be a refund since it’s on the user to unsubscribe from Match.  allows both to be subscribed to at the same time because some people still want their uploads to be DRM-free and they’re willing to pay a premium for that.

 

[CorranQ]

I just signed up for the Premier Bundle and everything works except for Apple Music. It keeps asking me to join when I try to listen. Anyone have that issue?

I had this problem on my computer, I only needed to reboot and it connected to Apple Music finally. Probably the same for you.

 

[Ethosik]

Yet it went over your head. It’s included but only if Apple Music has it. Anything unique and not in Apple Music that u upload you need iTunes Match.

Nope completely false. I have created my own music, and ripped CDs all uploaded to my library with only Apple Music.

 

[xyz01]

you can have a separate iCloud sub, so it’s whatever Apple One tier you choose + whatever iCloud tier you choose. That goes for $ and GB/TB. So, yeah, you can have a 4TB plan if you really want it.

I like this flexibility as You could go for 400GB instead, for about $23, if you don’t care about Fitness+.

I would much prefer that you could just if you have Apple One, the price to upgrade storage from 200 GB to 2 TB is the difference between 200 GB and 2 TB storage subscriptions rather than having to have both. Having 2.2 TB makes no sense.

There's no timeline at all for Apple Premier here (Norway).

I was expecting to subscribe to Apple One, but this storage pricing makes it a bit less attractive as quite a bit of the savings disappear.

Me and my wife don't use Apple Arcade, and we could definitely do without AppleTV+. We've got quite a few of other streaming services already, all of which are admittedly better than AppleTV+ (Netflix, HBO, Disney+, Amazon Prime plus some Norwegian TV stations).

 

[H-B0mb]

I signed up for premier but I can’t use or even share Apple Arcade. What’s going on. I was on a separate trial of arcade which I cancelled but it makes no sense that i can’t use arcade. The app is making me sign up again and pay 4.99.
This is terrible from a ux/cx perspective

 

[mainemini]

If you have Apple Music family in plan you can share the music without purchase sharing. That’s what we do. Everyone in my family have they own credit cards. Works perfectly for us.

How do we set up our family under Apple One but keep app purchases separate? We'd like to share the Apple One subscriptions but don't feel a need to share (and pay for) everyone's apps.