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A couple of months ago, my wife asked me about her iCloud+ storage plan, which she’s been paying for for years.
I’m also subscribed to iCloud+ storage — and on a shared family plan that, unbeknownst to me, she was completely unaware of.
So I decided to look into our family subscriptions, and discovered that two of my sons and my daughter are also paying separately for iCloud+ storage.
Wait a second, I said — I pay nearly $40 a month for the Apple One Premier plan, which includes 2TB of iCloud+ storage that can be shared among family members.
Apparently, no one in my family was aware of the great Apple One subscription that I’d been shelling out cash for every month.
Apple One comes with a ton of great benefits, including family access to Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Fitness+ and a lot more (depending on which plan you buy).
Now my wife is happily reading a lot of paywalled content in Apple News+, and my daughter has started doing a bunch of Apple Fitness+ workouts. One of my sons has been bingeing Severance.
As for me, I just learned of several other Apple One features I had no idea about, despite paying for the service for a long time.
Also in today’s newsletter:
Apple published details of its titanium 3D printing process for Apple Watch, which we compiled into an instructive, explanatory video.
Wow: Apple once again proves its expertise in making chips. The new N1 wireless chip Cupertino developed for the iPhone 17 is coming out of the gate with a bang.
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