- I'm Andru Edwards.
You're watching Gear Live
and the new Apple One subscription bundles
are now available.
I'm gonna give you a look at the different options,
and I'm gonna pick a bundle to subscribe
to myself in this video.
Obviously Apple has built up its portfolio
of subscription services,
especially over the last few years.
They now have Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, Apple Arcade,
Apple News Plus, Apple Fitness Plus is coming
and they even have iCloud storage plans as well.
What Apple One does is offer savings to users and families
who use multiple services.
But before we jump into the plans,
I have a bunch of upcoming Apple content dropping
over the next couple of weeks.
So be sure to hit the subscribe button and bell icon
so you know when those drop.
Okay, first here's how to find the different bundles.
On iPhone or iPad, go into settings,
tap on your Apple ID at the top.
Then tap on subscriptions.
At the top of the list above all your active subscriptions,
you'll see the get Apple One option,
tap on that and it'll show you
all the different plans available.
And then you can also do this from a Mac,
but for some reason it's nowhere near as obvious.
You go into the Mac App Store,
tap on your Apple ID at the bottom of the left column.
Then click on view information,
scroll down to subscriptions and click manage
and you'll see the Apple One options there. Okay.
Now let's take a look at the three different bundles
and how much money they can save you.
So first, if you're an individual,
you can get Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, Apple Arcade,
and 50 gigabytes of iCloud storage
for $14.95 a month.
Now that's down from the $21 per month that it would cost
to subscribe to all of those things individually,
which is actually a pretty decent savings of 28.57%.
Now, again, that's the individual plan.
The next plan is for families who wanna share access
to these services.
And by the way, Apple's family sharing allows you
to share access to the various services
with five other family members,
which gives you six people in total
who can access everything.
So with the family plan,
you get bumped up to 200 gigabytes of shared iCloud storage.
And everyone in the family can share Apple Music,
TV Plus and Arcade for $19.95, which is down from $28.
And that is also a savings of 28.57% similar
to the savings on the individual plan.
But then there's the Apple One Premier bundle,
which I'm hearing is only available in the US.
Now, this is also a family plan and it includes access
to Apple Music, TV Plus and Arcade
but also throws in Apple News Plus, Apple Fitness Plus,
and two terabytes of iCloud storage
for a total of $29.95 per month,
which is down from the $55 that it would cost individually
to subscribe to all these various services.
Now that's actually the biggest savings of all.
That's a savings of 45.5% of the cost of subscribing
to all these various services on their own.
So for me, I have a family of three,
so it's me, my wife and my son.
So right off the bat, a family plan would be in order.
Now I currently subscribe to Apple Music, Apple TV Plus
Apple Arcade and I have a plan
for two terabytes of iCloud storage.
So the cost for all of those right now is $35 per month.
So as you can see for 29.95,
I can keep the services that I'm already subscribed to
and get access to News Plus and Fitness Plus
for the entire family and pay $5 less
than I'm paying right now.
So even if I never use either of the two new services,
News Plus and Fitness Plus,
this still saves me $60 per year to go
with the Apple One bundle rather
than subscribing individually.
So that's the one I'll pick and there we go.
I subscribed and I get the splash screen,
welcome to Apple One, ready to enjoy right now,
all your services are already on your Apple devices.
And that's it.
Now we can see Apple One has been added
to my active subscriptions.
Now I've got to admit,
I figured that the bundles Apple we'll put together
would save you maybe five or 10% at most.
So seeing savings of 28 to about 45% is cool to see.
Now, as an aside,
you'll also be able to buy extra iCloud storage
in addition to your bundle,
which I've been waiting for for years
as I inch closer and closer to my two terabyte storage limit
with every passing day.
So now you can get Apple One with up to two terabytes
of storage,
and you can still add an additional two terabytes of storage
through a standard iCloud plan,
bringing the new total maximum to four terabytes
of iCloud storage.
I should also mention that if there are any services
that you aren't currently subscribed to,
let's say Apple News Plus, or Apple Arcade,
those services will be free for the first month
of your Apple One subscription so that you can try them out
and see if you like them.
After the free trial, then the plan will automatically renew
as a monthly subscription.
Now let me know in the comments,
if you plan to subscribe to an Apple One bundle,
and if so, which one will you be trying?
I'm curious to know how many people
are gonna take advantage of Apple One
and also how many people even realize that it's a thing.
So let me know in the comments below,
and I'll meet you there for further discussion.
Thank you so much for watching as always guys.
I appreciate your support. I'm Andru Edwards,
and I will catch you in the next video.
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