Apple launches $20 subscription service to guard your devices

Apple is saying a brand new AppleCare subscription known as AppleCare One that allows you to cowl a number of merchandise with a single plan. For $19.99 monthly, AppleCare One covers as much as three merchandise, and tacking on a brand new product prices $5.99 monthly every.

With the merchandise coated below AppleCare One, you get the identical protection you’ll below AppleCare Plus, together with battery protection, limitless repairs for unintended harm, and 24/7 precedence assist.

If you subscribe to AppleCare One, you may also add merchandise which can be as much as 4 years previous to your plan — an enormous bounce from the 60-day window you need to add AppleCare Plus protection to a product after you purchase it. However, Apple says that older merchandise that you just add to your AppleCare One subscription must be in “good condition” and that the corporate could run diagnostic checks on them earlier than including them to your plan. Apple will even solely mean you can add headphones to an AppleCare One plan if they’re lower than a 12 months previous.

Theft and Loss protection can be out there for the iPad and Apple Watch with AppleCare Plus, and for those who cowl an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch below AppleCare One, Theft and Loss protection can be included.

Apple says you possibly can join AppleCare One out of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac or at an Apple Store starting July twenty fourth.

AppleCare One simply the newest companies push from Apple, which additionally contains the Apple One subscription that bundles collectively a bunch of Apple companies into one plan. Last quarter, the corporate introduced that its companies income reached one other all-time high.