Freebies Offered by Apple

[ttibsen]

The wife has just received her new iPhone 15 Plus.
I am awaiting the arrival of a Mac Mini and the Studio Display that goes with it.
With respect to a free subscription to Apple TV that Apple gives to purchasers of new devices - do all three of these qualify?
My understanding for the iPhone is that she's good for a free 3 month subscription to Apple TV.
Do the Mac Mini and the Studio Display also qualify and if so, are the subscriptions then additive?
Meaning that if all 3 devices qualify, then we get 9 months free?

 

[mmkerc]

Generally it is 3 months from date of purchase/ or delivery. Additionally Apple TV/Music/Fitness + etc are user defined not device defined.

 

[AZhappyjack]

The wife has just received her new iPhone 15 Plus.
I am awaiting the arrival of a Mac Mini and the Studio Display that goes with it.
With respect to a free subscription to Apple TV that Apple gives to purchasers of new devices - do all three of these qualify?
My understanding for the iPhone is that she's good for a free 3 month subscription to Apple TV.
Do the Mac Mini and the Studio Display also qualify and if so, are the subscriptions then additive?
Meaning that if all 3 devices qualify, then we get 9 months free?

Apple is all over the map with regards to the freebies. The official policy is that once you've used a freebie for a service (Music, Arcade, Fitness, TV, etc), you cannot redeem another freebie for that service. In practice, however, it's a real crap-shoot.

However, it is extremely doubtful that no matter what you do that you will be able to redeem the TV free trial three times back-to-back. I have had some success by redeeming one code and letting it run through, then cancelling and after a day or so redeem another code... But sometimes even that doesn't work. And there are also other types of freebie promos for TV... Will Smith offered one via Instagram a while back as a promotion for his movie Emancipation... and Jennifer Garner did something similar to promote The Last Thing He Told Me. These promos seemed to work for everyone, unlike the "new device" promo... as with most promotional things, YMMV.

 

[ttibsen]

{However, it is extremely doubtful that no matter what you do that you will be able to redeem the TV free trial three times back-to-back} - sigh, that is exactly what I was trying to do. So, OK, I will give up on that approach and try your suggestion about allowing one subscription to run its course and then trying again - I've got nothing to lose.

Another problem with the Freebie that I do have from the purchase of the iPhone 15 Plus - a 6 month free subscription to Apple Music is the following. AM works just fine on the iPhone, it works on my iMac but it does not work on Apple TV. Here is the screenshot of the AM app on the TV, notice the search icon is not visible

When I move the mouse over to where the search icon should be, it does materialize but instead of opening up a search window where I could type in, it remains just an icon and I get the endlessly spinning gear showing up

clicking on the search icon gives me this

What? This is an unexpected restriction! OK so I can see that maybe, being a Freebie, it's not going to be as versatile as a paid subscription but to upgrade, check this out

I would be back to a paid subscription! Kind of defeats the idea of a Freebie. But all right, being a Freebie I will have to live with the restriictions. The question then becomes - as I would do most of my listening to AM in the living room through the Apple TV, how can I "turn off" the iMac and my new iPhone so that the Music app on the Apple TV would be the only device playing music?

 

[mmkerc]

I am not a familiar with the individual plan issues of recent as I have had the family plan for years now. However, this is acting just like MS Office single user does if I am work within it on my Mac, and my wife goes to open it on her Mac. It only allows one device to be using the program at a time. How they do this I do not know but I was traveling out of the country once and MS still flagged me.

Digression aside, I think AM was running in the background on one of the other machines. I would check to see if the app was actually closed.