Apple One Subscription [/]
Jun 29 2026
Apple One bundles several Apple subscriptions into one package. I have Individual for $20 per month which gives me:
iCloud storage is fairly useful. For free you get 5 GB but once now that it's 50 GB I'm using 11.9 GB with Messages (5 GB) and my iPhone+iPad backups (4.6 GB) being most of that usage. Useful enough that I'd pay the $1 per month.
Apple TV I'd probably also subscribe separately. There are some excellent Apple TV shows and the sports content is enough to keep me satisfied (I'm fairly ambivalent about all sports other than NFL so some sports is good if it's high level play but which sports I don't think I care as much). Having said that Viki Standard ($80 / year is $6.67 month) + Netflix with Ads ($9 per month) is only a little more and I watch those two much more than Apple TV (which is still third and more than Prime, Tubi, Xfinity Stream maybe combined).
Apple Music I wouldn't use at all. I have thousands of songs I've bought over the years so I almost never stream random music that I don't already own.
Apple Arcade is much the same. I do play a lot of their games and many are quite good and entertaining and hours of play. But if I didn't have it I have hundreds of Steam/Epic/GOG games and I've only played a few so I wouldn't miss Apple Arcade.
I guess right now it's more of nice to have package subscription than critical. It started at $15 and a couple of price increases later it's now at $20 per month. I'm not sure how I'd feel if there were a price increase from $20. There is a certain amount of "I like Apple so I feel I should be subscribed".
- Apple iCloud+ 50 GB storage ($1 per month)
- Apple TV ($13 per month)
- Apple Music ($11 per month)
- Apple Arcade ($7 per month)
iCloud storage is fairly useful. For free you get 5 GB but once now that it's 50 GB I'm using 11.9 GB with Messages (5 GB) and my iPhone+iPad backups (4.6 GB) being most of that usage. Useful enough that I'd pay the $1 per month.
Apple TV I'd probably also subscribe separately. There are some excellent Apple TV shows and the sports content is enough to keep me satisfied (I'm fairly ambivalent about all sports other than NFL so some sports is good if it's high level play but which sports I don't think I care as much). Having said that Viki Standard ($80 / year is $6.67 month) + Netflix with Ads ($9 per month) is only a little more and I watch those two much more than Apple TV (which is still third and more than Prime, Tubi, Xfinity Stream maybe combined).
Apple Music I wouldn't use at all. I have thousands of songs I've bought over the years so I almost never stream random music that I don't already own.
Apple Arcade is much the same. I do play a lot of their games and many are quite good and entertaining and hours of play. But if I didn't have it I have hundreds of Steam/Epic/GOG games and I've only played a few so I wouldn't miss Apple Arcade.
I guess right now it's more of nice to have package subscription than critical. It started at $15 and a couple of price increases later it's now at $20 per month. I'm not sure how I'd feel if there were a price increase from $20. There is a certain amount of "I like Apple so I feel I should be subscribed".