Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+ Receiving Price Increases

[Velin]

I’ve been canceling streaming services. Starz, gone. Max, gone. Netflix, from highest tier to cheapest. Looks like Apple TV may be next.

Unless a streamer is offering an amazing deal, it’s a hard no. Between mostly free outdoor activities, travel, books, UTube, Rumble, each year we find less reason to stick with the major “platforms.”

 

[Queues]

Yeesh, these are steep increases compared the the previous $1/month ones. Just checked and Costco seems to no longer be selling the yearly Apple Arcade subscription either.

I noticed about a week ago that they weren’t selling the Apple TV+ subscriptions too. I was just about to buy one, sad.

 

[dominiongamma]

Unless AAA are on there then no!

 

[PeterKeller]

This is a 32% increase over the price I originally paid when I first signed up to Apple One in August 2022.
That's WAY TOO MUCH inflation.

 

[Rychiar]

I can’t believe anyone pays for news or apple . Those are silly services with almost no value. Apple TV has gotten better but there’s still only a few things worth watching. It’s not a new good show every week like Netflix. Everyone i know who uses it does so cus they get it free…. And you’ll never convince an android person to signup

 

[ProfessionalFan]

This is a 32% increase over the price I originally paid when I first signed up to Apple One in August 2022.
That's WAY TOO MUCH inflation.

Disney+ I think has gone up more over the same period, along with Netflix. All these companies are using inflation as an excuse to pad profit margins more.

 

[Killerbob]

OMG - the amount of folks saying they will leave Apple then. As if…

 

[ignatius345]

I might be agreeing with you.
I have the cloud whatever one plus subscription.... is called....
The only thing worth there is the Cloud family storage and the Apple TV.
Arcade is a joke (but I don't play on iPhone or iPad) and news is useless in EU.

If they increase this sub again - I won't care, will cancel immediately - exactly on US Halloween.
Hopefully apple users will scare Tim back with such initiatives....

I have the Apple One subscription too, with the 2TB iCloud storage, shared with my family. The storage part we truly need. I use Apple Music and TV+ a lot, but the rest of it could probably go. Thing is, the way the bundle works, I think I'd be paying more for the services we use à la carte, even though we never touch Fitness or Arcade.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

OMG - the amount of folks saying they will leave Apple then. As if…

I don't see anyone saying they are leaving Apple entirely. Canceling your TV+ subscription does not equate to leaving Apple.

 

[gatorvet96]

I only need the iCloud storage for family, Apple TV+ and Apple Music which is now $37. So basically news, arcade and fitness are free. So I guess I will stay.

 

[CalMin]

Slow incremental price increases is why services is so profitable. But a second increase this year may well have boiled the frog for me. I barely use arcade. I like but don’t need news and AppleTV isn’t worth $10 to me. I do need the 2TB iCloud Drive but can get that separately. I like music but have Google music for $7.99.

ugh Apple. Come on.

 

[Quasi26]

Everyone has a different tolerance for prices....they got me with this one. Thats a bridge to far for me on AppleOne for me and the family.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

I have the Apple One subscription too, with the 2TB iCloud storage, shared with my family. The storage part we truly need. I use Apple Music and TV+ a lot, but the rest of it could probably go. Thing is, the way the bundle works, I think I'd be paying more for the services we use à la carte, even though we never touch Fitness or Arcade.

Which is why Apple should want to push more people towards the bundle, I bet the majority pay for services they don't use. If Apple One remained the same price, I guarantee there'd be people upgrading to it.

 

[Andres Cantu]

I’m surprised they haven’t increased the price of the $0.99 50Gb iCloud tier to $1.99.

I bet it’s going to happen any day now…

 

[Cruncher]

TV+ was just increased a year ago from 6 to 8$ in my country. I just quickly renewed for a year to get the old price. I don`t think I will do that again now as I did not watch a lot at the moment.

 

[Isengardtom]

Pretty substantial increases

I think I should do a check on all my subscription services including Non Apple and start slashing a bit

It made sense during Covid but now I’m actually playing games more than watching tv

I think I’ll start rotating them every 3-4 months or so

 

[frumpywumpy]

Yeesh, these are steep increases compared the the previous $1/month ones. Just checked and Costco seems to no longer be selling the yearly Apple Arcade subscription either.

Yup, I just checked too ... and I was about to renew next month ... o well, saved myself some more money I suppose.

 

[zetzetone]

The Netherlands as well : Apple.nl states 'only' 9,99 now..

 

[Student of Life]

I have been looking at Apple One for my family but 37 is pricy.

My main needs are
Apple music
2TB iCloud

Apple TV, News, Arcade etc are ok, I cant remember the last thing I saw on Apple TV other than the snoopy show. Never tried the Arcade or the News, or the fitness thing.

If they sold a year bundle at a discount I would be interested.

 

[Dionte]

They just increased the prices a few weeks ago, wtf.

 

[10anta]

It's a long time ago that Netflix was £4.99/month and had essentially everything ever made on it.

 

[BruiserB]

I was going to rush to Costco.com to buy another year of News+ at the discounted yearly subscription they sold....but it's already been pulled. I guess I'll just let my current subscription run out. I kind of like the access to different sources and the audio articles are perfect for falling asleep to.

 

[BeatCrazy]

I have a family and I only use the 2TB storage, Apple Music for Family and AppleTV+. All of those add up to $37 with the new prices, conveniently(?) only $1 less than subscribing to the 'whole enchilada $37.95' plan. So for $1, I guess I'll pay for News.

 

[Fuzzball84]

I tried Arcade and was disappointed massively...

Are the price increases the result of increased costs.. or just jumping on the bandwagon with the other service providers...

Content and functionality is now spread over numerous different companies and services.. its getting spread thin and prices keep going up.

 

[Steve-Jobz]

Apple One's runaway subscription prices have skyrocketed on the bottom line of users' patience!