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Apple tree One is the new subscription service launched past Apple in Fall 2022 that includes the ability to subscribe with different tiers to multiple Apple tree services for a single toll per month. This gives users a cost break for subscribing to multiple Apple tree services, plus the ability to share services with family members.

In this article, we'll have a look at what the Apple One subscription is, what the tiers are, how to subscribe, and how to share your subscription with multiple people. We'll also cover how to allocate your shared iCloud Drive file storage to users and how to use the binder and file sharing of iCloud Drive to share your files stored in the iCloud service.

What is Apple One?

As Apple has introduced more and more services over the past few years, information technology has become increasingly difficult for users to manage their subscriptions to the various services and figure out which services they want to subscribe to. Apple One aims to make this process easier.

Apple tree One comprises different levels of subscriptions that iOS and macOS users tin subscribe to in order to parcel together multiple Apple services under one cost and subscription.

At the fourth dimension of this writing, Apple is offering three tiers to choose from, depending on the services that y'all'd need to admission. Each tier offers a slight discount on what's offered when bundled monthly nether the Apple Ane subscription:

Individual Tier – $14.95/mo
Includes:

  • Apple tree Music
  • Apple TV+
  • Apple Arcade
  • 50 GB iCloud Storage

Family Tier – $19.95/mo
Includes:

  • Apple tree Music
  • Apple TV+
  • Apple Arcade
  • 200 GB iCloud Storage

Premier Tier – $29.95/mo
Includes:

  • Apple Music
  • Apple tree TV+
  • Apple Arcade
  • 2 TB iCloud Storage
  • Apple News+
  • Apple Fettle+

Currently only the Family and Premier tiers have the ability to share the business relationship benefits with up to 5 users on your business relationship. The pricing listed is in USD, and not all of these plans are available in all countries. Please bank check with the Apple website in your land to determine eligibility for features and pricing.

How to subscribe to Apple One

When you're set to subscribe to Apple 1, you can visit ane.apple.com on your iOS device to start the sign up procedure. Alternately, yous can start the sign up process by performing these steps:

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Tap your name.
  3. Select Subscriptions.
  4. Select Apple One.

If you don't take the choice, ensure that yous take the latest update by performing these steps:

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Navigate to General | Software Update.

When you subscribe to an Apple I plan, so existing Apple tree services that you're subscribed to volition be affected by your subscription to Apple One and you will be refunded for the residual of the time flow left on the individual service subscriptions. For example, if you have an iCloud Storage subscription and subscribe to one of the Apple One tiers, so your individual iCloud Storage subscription will be canceled and refunded for the residual of the subscription period.

How to share an Apple One subscription

Ane of the key features of the Apple One subscription at the Family unit Tier and higher is the ability to share all of the benefits of the Apple I subscription with upwards to five others.

To begin sharing, you first need to invite some other person's iCloud business relationship into your Apple tree One business relationship. To practise this, yous'll practise the following:

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Tap your name at the tiptop.
  3. Navigate to Family Sharing | Add together Fellow member.
  4. Tap Invite People to begin, or create an account for a kid by selecting the appropriate option (Figure A).

Figure A

Tapping on Invite People will let yous transport an invite via Messages, Email, or AirDrop.

If you're creating an business relationship that will need to be restricted, then you can create a new account for a child, or if the child already has an account that's age restricted, y'all tin can just invite unremarkably through the Invite People flow. By tapping on Invite People, y'all'll exist prompted to send the invitation via Messages, Electronic mail, AirDrop, or another app that'due south included in the Share Sheet.

As the person doing the inviting into the Family Sharing, you'll exist considered the organizer and will have the part of managing users in your family account. This ways that you will be able to add or remove users at will. It'due south important to note that you lot tin only join 1 family unit at a time, and joining a family will prevent you from joining another family for a period of i twelvemonth to minimize abuse of this sharing feature.

Once the other user has accepted your Family Sharing request, and so you tin can run into which services are shared with whatever given user by going dorsum to Settings and navigating into this Family unit Sharing section of iCloud. Here there will be two sections: Shared With Your Family and More To Share.

The Shared With Your Family section

This department volition show everything that's automatically shared when starting the Family Sharing characteristic. By default, many Apple Services including Apple tree TV+, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, and Shop (iTunes Shop, App Store, and Apple Books) purchases will be shared.

You cannot keep users from sharing Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple tree Arcade, or Apple News+, but you can prevent sharing of purchases past tapping on the Purchase Sharing section and selecting Stop Purchase Sharing (Effigy B). Any apps, books, or other purchases that yous had shared will no longer be accessible on the other fellow member's devices.

Figure B

Stop sharing with family for any service and they will no longer take access to the benefits of that service on their devices.

In addition to these services sharing, Apple also enables Location Sharing with all family members. This ways that you can view their location and devices inside of the Find My apps on your Apple devices. If you don't wish to share your location with these members, you can navigate into the Location Sharing section and disable the feature labeled Share My Location.

The More To Share section

Nether the More To Share section, yous tin can set up sharing of Apple Subscriptions, iCloud Storage, Apple tree Cash, Ask To Buy, and Screen Time.

The main thing nosotros're interested in enabling hither is iCloud Storage. This volition let yous share a single iCloud Storage plan of the organizer's account with all of the family unit members as a single bucket of storage. To practice this, tap iCloud Storage, then tap Share Storage Program (Figure C).

Figure C

Sharing your storage plan with family unit members ways they tin can apply the storage from the organizer's storage saucepan for their ain documents, files, etc.

How to figure out how much information storage you're using

After you've started sharing your iCloud Drive storage with family members, yous may wish to check on how much storage you're utilizing off of the organizer business relationship. You tin can practise this by post-obit these steps:

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Select your proper noun at the meridian.
  3. Navigate to iCloud | Manage Storage.

In this view, you volition become a breakout of every app and user'south storage beingness utilized. If you are nearing your quota, Apple does allow upgrading your storage account beyond the 2 TB of their highest tier Apple One plan for an additional per month subscription.

Using iCloud Drive file and folder sharing

Of course, now that all the users of the family have additional storage added to their accounts, information technology's piece of cake to share files and folders between users of the family and beyond. This is great for sharing large files and folders for work, school, or even family files.

Folder sharing requires iOS thirteen.4 and beyond, and yous tin can learn all nigh how it works in this TechRepublic article: How to share files and folders in iCloud Drive with iOS 13.4.