Apple One Family & Premier Plans Shared Purchases & iCloud Explained

Apple One Family & Premier Plans: Shared Purchases & iCloud Explained

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Apple One sharing means one person gets the bill for subscriptions, but might also pay for movies, music and games, depending on how it’s set up.

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Apple One Family & Premier Plans Shared Purchases & iCloud Explained

Apple One is a recently-introduced subscription bundle that has three price-tiers. The lowest cost option, the Individual plan, has questionable value. It bundles four of Apple’s services but is only a good deal if all four services are used regularly. The Family and Premier plans offer some nice potential savings, though. With the benefits able to be shared among six people, they can reduce the cost by up to 83 percent for each person.

Apple currently offers five services that have monthly fees, including Apple Music, TV+, Arcade, iCloud, and News+. Fitness+, which is coming soon, will be a sixth subscription service. The Individual and Family bundles include the first four services mentioned, while the top-level Premier Plan includes all six. Pricing ranges from $5 to $15 for each, so the total for all six would be $55 per month. At $30, it’s a good value for families and begs the question of whether friends can be added to the plan as well.

By allowing sharing among up to six family members, Apple One’s Family and Premier Plans give much better potential value than the Individual plan, but only if a user has enough relatives with Apple devices. If there are fewer than six Apple devices in the family, more people can be added at no extra cost, but is this a good idea? Family Sharing can potentially bill app, book, movie, and music purchases to the person that set up the sharing. Location may be tracked, iCloud storage shared, purchase history viewed, and videos and music purchases played. Thankfully, Apple includes ways to limit, disable, and hide most of these features, allowing a bit more virtual distance between those sharing a plan.

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Limiting Apple One Purchases & Sharing

Clearly, parents will want to limit the ability for young children to make purchases and Apple has a way to add members that must ask to purchase. The request is sent to the owner of the plan, and optionally a second person, to approve or deny. If friends are added to the plan, setting them up as children is probably not a good idea. Purchase requests from a friend may feel awkward and the only other way for a ‘family member’ to purchase apps or content is by preloading credit to their account with an Apple gift card. In other words, family sharing, at least when it comes to purchases, is really meant for families that share expenses or those that have a very good understanding with one another. This option can be switched off entirely, preventing members of the group from accessing apps and content that has been purchased by the plan owner. Subscriptions will still be shared even if purchase sharing is disabled.

Sharing is nice, but when iCloud storage begins to fill up, it might be difficult to clear it up when using a family plan. Unfortunately, there is no way to set limits on how much each member can use. Instead, Apple relies on relatives to work out any inequalities. It may be easier to simply purchase more storage than to complain to a loved one about unfair usage. Managing iCloud storage is not necessarily easy, but there are ways to cut back if space is tight and this may not even be an issue for a few years, given that the storage allotment is 200 GB for the Family Plan and 2 TB for the Premier Plan. There is enough value and are sufficient sharing controls to make Apple One an interesting new option for anyone currently subscribing or potentially interested in Apple services.

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