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Apple One Subscription Plans Will Support Users Who Have Multiple Apple IDs
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It has been reported that you can add more storage. MacWorld's article implies that you would be charged the normal iCloud price so it would be an additional $2.99 - so $17.94 per month, which is still cheaper than the Family Plan if you only need it for yourself.
I agree with you. That's why I said "I think, lol" I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Here's hoping though.
The official response is that in Apple's eyes, merging an apple ID is synonymous with "sharing" content. I think they need to update their customer service response, because if this were truly the issue then family sharing would not be a thing... I was given this response just yesterday.
Might as well just get the premier plan at that point.
the company I work for also has issues with customers being in the system multiple times with multiple customer numbers and solved it as follows:
It basically allows for multiple customers to to be marked as grouped together and "deactivated" at the same time 1 completely separate NEW customer number was generated from all of that, only with a reference to the group/deactivating process.
This way if necessary it was possible to not only ungroup and reactivate any "old" customer data set for whatever reason required (examples: was falsely grouped and deactivated, still required due to contract x or legal reason y).
And the customer basically got a "fresh" start with 1 number / data set going forward.
OLD (grouped and deactivated, but otherwise left as is)
John Appleton # 123456
John Appleton # 234561
John Appleton # 345671
NEW
John Appleton #012345 (generated and proposed to the customer, then verified or updated by the customer for accurate data, then activated in our system)
So in Apple's case it could look as follows:
ID 1: has movies/apps/music
ID 2: has icloud storage
ID 3: has movies/apps/music/storage from the old IDs while ID1 and 2 themselves get deactivated and signed out. Thus they wouldn't have to worry about ID sharing or whatever.
It basically allows for multiple customers to to be marked as grouped together and "deactivated" at the same time 1 completely separate NEW customer number was generated from all of that, only with a reference to the group/deactivating process.
This way if necessary it was possible to not only ungroup and reactivate any "old" customer data set for whatever reason required (examples: was falsely grouped and deactivated, still required due to contract x or legal reason y).
And the customer basically got a "fresh" start with 1 number / data set going forward.
OLD (grouped and deactivated, but otherwise left as is)
John Appleton # 123456
John Appleton # 234561
John Appleton # 345671
NEW
John Appleton #012345 (generated and proposed to the customer, then verified or updated by the customer for accurate data, then activated in our system)
So in Apple's case it could look as follows:
ID 1: has movies/apps/music
ID 2: has icloud storage
ID 3: has movies/apps/music/storage from the old IDs while ID1 and 2 themselves get deactivated and signed out. Thus they wouldn't have to worry about ID sharing or whatever.
That seems wrong. 200GB costs $2.99 and 2TB $9.99. Shouldn't the customer pay only the difference ($7)?
Yep. All of my iTunes purchases are with an Apple ID using gmail.
Can't you just invite your second Apple ID to family sharing and accomplish this? Did it ever need explicit support?
After all, the Apple One description says it's one subscription for the entire family, so that implies alternate Apple IDs.
After all, the Apple One description says it's one subscription for the entire family, so that implies alternate Apple IDs.
I checked the official Apple One page and under the section for adding more iCloud storage, it sends you to the standard iCloud storage tiers page so looks like you will pay full price and not pro-rated.
You are correct, and while they may price it as you have described, everyone should remember the point of a bundle to a company. They want to make as much money as possible while claiming the customer is "saving". Sometimes, this saving is an illusion as a bundle often includes less popular services that a user would normally not consider. And while they may come at a cost lower than buying all those services individually, the savings is really an illusion if the customer would not normally consider those services.
Yeah that's definitely a copout response from Apple. I own the content/purchases on both so those restrictions wouldn't be an issue.
All I'm asking for at the very least is to allow me to make one my primary Apple ID and the other one a secondary Apple ID, which would then allow me to use just one Apple ID to sign in.
Apple, it can't be this hard.
Well even if you factor in the individual Apple Music price versus the Family Plan price, the Premier plan is still significantly cheaper so even if it is just one person using it...
Please let us finally merge our Apple IDs. Managing two accounts with different subscriptions, email addresses, passwords, etc. is such a pain.
This is exactly the scenario i presented to Apple. They seemed uninterested to say the least.
What about those that received Apple TV+ for a year for buying an iPhone?
If this thread becomes long enough, I am going to reference it in my forthcoming email to Tim Cook.
That is a good question. I got my iphone 11 when it first came out, so my free subscription to Apple TV+ expires soon. I am sure though that many people still have plenty of time remaining in their free trial.
The point of the bundle is to offer a lower price to encourage customers who would not normally consider the service individually to consider it as part of the bundle with the discount. The end result is indeed they make more money if the customer upgrades to said bundle, but the customer also gets value, as well, otherwise they would stay with their existing ala carte services.
I only have AppleTV+ and 200GB of storage, so I do not intend to upgrade because I do not have a need for Music or Arcade. But if I had Apple Music, as well, I would upgrade to Family since I would get Arcade for only $2 more. Even if I seldom used it, it's only $2 (as opposed to $5). And that is what these companies (Apple, Amazon, etc.) hope customers will do.
That might be the case. Or they keep the price "at retail" to encourage upgrading to a higher tier (since Family + 2TB is the same price as Premier and with Premiere you get News and Fitness+).
Exactly! Once they start rolling this out, and people start subscribing and reporting their experiences, those of us with issues will be able to figure out what is best for us.