Apple is launching AppleCare One, offering multi-device coverage for $20 per month

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What just happened? With its expensive products that can be costly to repair, many Apple fans take out AppleCare Plus for extra protection, but it only covers one device. Now, Cupertino has announced a new plan that offers all the benefits of AppleCare Plus to three products: AppleCare One.

Standard AppleCare Plus costs from $2.99 per month to $10.49 based on device type – Apple introduced a 50-cent increase earlier this year.

Thanks to Apple's device ecosystem and walled garden, most people have more than one Cupertino product. It means multiple AppleCare Plus subscriptions are required for those wanting extra coverage for several devices.

But the new AppleCare One is a $19.99 per month subscription service that essentially adds AppleCare Plus coverage to three different Apple devices, be they iPhones, iPads, AirPods, Apple TV boxes, or even the $3,499+ Vision Pro headset – though few people own one, and only a single unit can be covered per plan.

If you're a big Apple fan and own more than three of its products, it's possible to add extra devices at a cost of $5.99 per month each. Apple says they have to be under four years old and in good working condition. Still, that's quite an improvement over the 60-day time limit customers are given to add AppleCare Plus coverage to a product after they buy it. Another caveat is that headphones can only be added to the plan if they are under one year old.

Items that are part of an AppleCare One package have unlimited covered against accidents like drops or spills. You also get battery coverage, 24/7 priority support, and up to three annual claims of theft or loss for an iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

If you're wondering whether you could take out AppleCare One and include devices belonging to family members in the same household – no, you can't, unless your family members keep their devices signed in with your Apple ID. Apple specifies that only devices in the customer's Apple Account can be covered under AppleCare One.

Apple says AppleCare One will be available tomorrow (July 24). You can sign up via your iPhone, iPad, Mac or at an Apple Store.

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Apple is launching AppleCare One, offering multi-device coverage for $20 per month

 

[Megalomaniac]

Everyone is now desperate to get you into a subscription. I say NO to subscriptions beyond my utilities.

 

[Greggs]

Be sure to include the deductible cost! Companies loves selling service contracts to consumers because emotional security is 100% profit.

Buy a quality product, take care of your stuff. Skip the contract, save cash

 

[Vanderlinde]

240$ a year.

Usually devices last, up to a good year before battery's start to give up.

A swap will cost you what, 60 to 90$ ?

3 phones? Interesting deal.

 

[ScottSoapbox]

Profit on these kind of extended warranties is usually around 80% after accounting for the repair/replacement costs and the overhead of managing the warranty claims. Which means you could put $2-3/month into your own bank account to self-insure.

I've done this for years and usually have zero issues. The rare issue I pay for the repair/replacement without a jumping through a single warranty claim hoop or the dreaded "oh that's not covered" (which you then pay for yourself too).

 

[ScottSoapbox]

This is proof most recent iProducts' batteries will make it 4 years above the 80% replacement level.

 

[p51d007]

We had 2 HUGE rain/wind events within 6 weeks of each other. First one took 50,000 without power for up to a week. Second one took 30,000 for 4 days.
The local news had a story where one guy had one of those "home warranties" that wouldn't cover the weather head for his power & meter because it wasn't "within code", but when the home warranty people inspected before issuing the warranty, they said it was ok.
That's how warranties, insurance works. You pay, they deny.

 

[toooooot]

A lot of these devices are highly breakable. Watches, phones, tablets. They all break unless you cannot afford to lose them and buy cases. To some people it is the only way beside spending hundreds of dollars on new screens.

 

[LordVile95]

240$ a year.

Usually devices last, up to a good year before battery's start to give up.

A swap will cost you what, 60 to 90$ ?

3 phones? Interesting deal.

AppleCare saved me about £700 on a Mac repair and is useful for when I drop my phone, by accident of course, and smash the display just before I intended to sell it. They send me a replacement device and I go on my merry way.