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Apple to Reduce Apple TV+ Free Trial to Three Months From July 1

I my case I don't see that. Ordered Disneyplus through iTunes. In the iTunes subscription page it says:

"if you cancel now, you can still access your subscription until <date>"

Thumbs up for Disney!


Apple TV+ says:
"if you cancel, .. will immediately lose acces to AppleTV+ .. You cannot reactivate this trial"

How customer unfriendly, not so Apple.

It is strange, since with iTunes Match Apple says:
"if you cancel now, you can still access your subscription until <date>".

So the policy with Apple is sometimes direct cancel, sometimes not...


Maconplasma said:
Well tell that to Disney too. They do the same thing with Disney+.
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Apple seems to do that with subscriptions. I canceled their game service one month into a 3 month trial and it was inactive immediately.
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That makes sense. Can't imagine someone needing more that three months to determine if an Apple TV+ subscription is right for them.
 
neliason said:
I’ve not found anything to watch. I’m not interested at all in the Oprah aesthetic.

I tried an animal show. It was OK, but also slightly irritating. I strongly dislike reality TV as it is a lie. The animal show was like that. It tried to tell a story about the animals. But I know, like all reality TV, it is picking and choosing clips to make up the narrative they decided to tell. Rather than feature an angry ice road trucker they used a cute little mouse. But it’s all the same lies. Give me Marlin Perkins. He told it to you straight.
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Marlin would stay safely out of harm’s way to do the narration while sending Jim in to wrestle the alligator.
 
mva68 said:
I my case I don't see that. Ordered Disneyplus through iTunes. In the iTunes subscription page it says:

"if you cancel now, you can still access your subscription until <date>"

Thumbs up for Disney!


Apple TV+ says:
"if you cancel, .. will immediately lose acces to AppleTV+ .. You cannot reactivate this trial"

How customer unfriendly, not so Apple.



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Well that's not the experience Disney offers to customers who subscribe to them directly. During the trial they state that if you cancel they will instantly shut off the service even if your trial isn't over anytime soon.

LMAO you call what Apple is doing is "Customer Unfriendly" when you're cancelling a free subscription that you have no intention of continuing with a paid subscription. How silly to say such a thing. FYI you're not a customer if you're not buying anything. 🙄
 
citysnaps said:
That makes sense. Can't imagine someone needing more that three months to determine if an Apple TV+ subscription is right for them.
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It was part of the deal for buying quite expensive Apple gear, to save 12*monthly subscription and now only save 3*monthly subscription is not an improvement. Actually it is a benefits reduction of 75%.
 
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Maconplasma said:
Well that's not the experience Disney offers to customers who subscribe to them directly. During the trial they state that if you cancel they will instantly shut off the service even if your trial isn't over anytime soon.

LMAO you call what Apple is doing is "Customer Unfriendly" when you're cancelling a free subscription that you have no intention of continuing with a paid subscription. How silly to say such a thing. FYI you're not a customer if you're not buying anything. 🙄
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uhm, you have to buy a eligible Apple product, so yes, I am a customer and the 1y Apple TV is part of the deal. I only ment customer unfriendly for their cancellation policy. It is a marketing tric to fool people in forgetting to cancel because when you want to cancel in the end of the subscription it is not possible while other companies take no advantage of this.

Strange that Disneyplus cancellation policy is different through iTunes then when ordered directly!
 
HBO Max, Disney+, Amazon Prime(free), Netflix, Paramount+(free), Apple+

My choice is easy on which to get rid of

I might give Ted Lasso a chance before it ends.
 
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Maconplasma said:
It's pretty interesting that if someone doesn't like something then that means nobody else should. 🙄.

Does it ever occur to you that some may like one or two shows (Ted Lasso for example) and that's enough for them to subscribe to the service? Not everyone needs a large library of crap content bundled in order to find value of something. For you to say ATV+ should just be "thrown in" with other services is saying, "As long as I don't like ATV+ then everyone else should agree with me". SMH.
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My point is that TV+ just doesn't have the content to justify a charge right now. Most people might like maybe 1 or 2 shows at a push and is that worth £4.99 a month? No.
 
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Somehow or other, I haven't managed to purchase any compatible new Apple devices over the past couple years. (Not sure how that happened tbqh.)

I plan on subscribing in the fall for John Stewart's new show. Would it make financial sense to pick up e.g. the cheapest iPod Touch (or maybe something else) exclusively for the one year trial?
 
mva68 said:
It was part of the deal for buying quite expensive Apple gear, to save 12*monthly subscription and now only save 3*monthly subscription is not an improvement. Actually it is a benefits reduction of 75%.
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I understand what the previous free subscription plan was. And Apple's motivation.

Now that the public is familiar what AppleTV+ is about, three month's seems appropriate. It's not meant to be an improvement or a freebie for buying "expensive" Apple gear. It's about getting Apple's customer base acquainted with the service. Three months is more than enough for that.

Many here proudly proclaimed they'd let their subscription lapse after a year because they hated the service. That's fine too. I like AppleTV+ and can handle the 16 cents/day cost.
 
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So I had my free trial since launch of Nov 2019. Got all the covid extensions and share it as part of family sharing between her and I an my 16 year old. My fiancee just got a message today was the last day to claim the free year of AppleTV+.

So I cancelled my trial which immediatly removed it and she accepted hers. Now we got at least another year without having to pay for it as its the subscription shes sharing via family sharing.
 
Steve121178 said:
My point is that TV+ just doesn't have the content to justify a charge right now. Most people might like maybe 1 or 2 shows at a push and is that worth £4.99 a month? No.
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Two shows I like for 4.99 a month is worth more than one movie in a theater that costs even more. So, yeah, it is worth it for some people.
 
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I think it should be 1 year free with every Apple TV or iPhone purchase. So it could always be free for those loyal customers. It’s a nice free feature but I haven’t found anything that warrants me converting to being a paid user.

transend looks pretty cool though, but not $5 a month cool
 
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Kebabselector said:
Has anyone ever paid for it? (apart from in a Apple one bundle) My free offer expires 1st July, so I've cancelled it. Enjoyed a few shows, but on the whole I often forget I have it. (I don't subscribe to any other service*)


*Well, I'm in the UK so have to pay for the BBC - yeah I know there's ways around it.
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Not here.... My free trial went for a year and then was extended several more months (some kind of free bonus extension thing they did, likely due to COVID delaying a lot of production of new content?). Mine ends in July too. I have no plans to pay for it after it expires either. I doubt I've watched more than maybe 6 hours of programming on it the whole time I've had it. Amazing Stories might have been the only series I really watched most of on there. Most of their other shows didn't pique my interest or I watched one episode and didn't get motivated to watch the rest.

I'm mainly a fan of good science-fiction though, so shows like "The Expanse" on Amazon Prime were more my speed. Apple TV has been a little light in that genre.
 
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mva68 said:
uhm, you have to buy a eligible Apple product, so yes, I am a customer and the 1y Apple TV is part of the deal.
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It's a thrown in deal which will come to an end.
mva68 said:
I only ment customer unfriendly for their cancellation policy. It is a marketing tric to fool people in forgetting to cancel because when you want to cancel in the end of the subscription it is not possible while other companies take no advantage of this.
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Um okay. You do realize that's common practice with any subscription service? No company will hold your hand throughout the process to make sure you don't get charged. That's how subscription services work. Even with Amazon when you hit the cancellation button they will nag you to death about features you will be missing if you don't renew up until the final day of your subscription until you give in to try it for One More Month. Apple (and Disney directly) is not forcing you to cancel before the subscription ends. Simply set your phone to remind you on the last day. It's up the customer to be smart when it comes to streaming services.
mva68 said:
Strange that Disneyplus cancellation policy is different through iTunes then when ordered directly!
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Yes I had to have my iPhone remind me to cancel on the last day since there was a couple of programs I wanted to watch. Disney cuts customers off for the exact reason Apple does. Perhaps they do it differently on iTunes since it's on a different platform and they may want to make it easier to retain customers.
 
I think many people, including myself, will have the subscription as bundled in the apple one service (the 15$ tier is actually really good value); I don't know a single person who subscribed to the service as it is.

Anyway while Apple TV+ is not going to catch up with the competitors anytime soon, I find it a lovely companion on the side and it's growing quite a lot.
At the moment there are quite a few cool shows and documentaries added all the time.

I really don't mind what apple's doing
 
ipedro said:
While Apple is to blame for confusing names and a consolidated UI, I can’t believe people still don’t know the difference between the TV app and tv+.

Go to the tv+ section in the TV app and if you have a subscription *every tv+ show is free*.

The TV app consolidates content from other apps, both from Apple (tv+ and itunes) and third parties. For example, Disney+ shows appear in the TV app but you wouldn’t expect to get those shows free with an tv+ subscription.
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Believe it. I now went to take a new look at the PS4 appletvapp and yes, there is a selection for appletv+, and I never made the connection that's where I should go to find the movies, instead of "movies". So thanks.
But I still don't think I'm the only one who found the app unintuitive and confusing to use.

Looks like I still have a month of trial left, would have cancelled right now,
but I'd lose access immediately, so it'll have to wait a few weeks.
 
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Just a thought, what if Apple wants to at least have the possibility to kill the service in some time, then it is not smart to have a lot of 1 year 'free' subscribers... Paid 1y subscribers you can refund. For the free subscribers you made a promise, but how to pay them back?

Reason of the thought, the market looks overcrowded and Apple for now is not going to win. Three players max? 1. Netflix 2. PrimeVideo 3. Disneyplus. Also customers, at least myselves, don't want all this fragmentation.
 
Plan on cancelling mine in a couple before it renews. The shows are OK but most not good enough to spend money on. I did notice that many of the season 2 stuff comes after the July 1 end for many people -wonder if on purpose.
 
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The entitlement of people amazes me. Demanding that this be free for always and forever. $5 a month isn't that expensive. You spend more than that on a cup of fancy coffee these days.

Apple's content is all quality stuff, well worth the cost. More so than Netflix's expensive dumpster of content. I'm paying $13 a month to watch maybe one show or movie that is remotely interesting and doesn't entirely suck in that time frame.

Even if I go a month without new content on Apple TV+, $60 a year overall is worth it for shows like For All Mankind, Mythic Quest, Ted Lasso, The Morning Show and Central Park. And it looks like the upcoming Foundation show is going to further increase the value of that $60 a year.

Also, there are ZERO ads. What other $5 a month streaming service with quality shows is there that doesn't bombard you with 2 to three segments of 2 minute ads for every title you watch.
 
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