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Apple tree One is the new subscription service launched by Apple tree in Fall 2020 that includes the ability to subscribe with dissimilar tiers to multiple Apple services for a unmarried price per month. This gives users a toll break for subscribing to multiple Apple tree services, plus the ability to share services with family unit members.

In this article, we'll have a look at what the Apple tree 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 folder and file sharing of iCloud Drive to share your files stored in the iCloud service.

What is Apple tree I?

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

Apple 1 comprises different levels of subscriptions that iOS and macOS users can subscribe to in lodge to bundle together multiple Apple services under i price and subscription.

At the time of this writing, Apple is offer three tiers to choose from, depending on the services that you'd demand to access. Each tier offers a slight disbelieve on what's offered when bundled monthly nether the Apple One subscription:

Individual Tier – $14.95/mo
Includes:

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

Family Tier – $nineteen.95/mo
Includes:

  • Apple Music
  • Apple Telly+
  • Apple Arcade
  • 200 GB iCloud Storage

Premier Tier – $29.95/mo
Includes:

  • Apple Music
  • Apple tree Television+
  • Apple Arcade
  • ii TB iCloud Storage
  • Apple tree News+
  • Apple Fitness+

Currently only the Family and Premier tiers have the power to share the account benefits with up to 5 users on your account. The pricing listed is in USD, and not all of these plans are bachelor in all countries. Please bank check with the Apple website in your state to decide eligibility for features and pricing.

How to subscribe to Apple 1

When y'all're ready to subscribe to Apple One, yous can visit one.apple tree.com on your iOS device to get-go the sign upwardly process. Alternately, yous tin can outset the sign up procedure by performing these steps:

  1. Open up the Settings app.
  2. Tap your name.
  3. Select Subscriptions.
  4. Select Apple tree Ane.

If you don't have the option, ensure that you have the latest update past performing these steps:

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

When y'all subscribe to an Apple Ane program, then existing Apple services that you're subscribed to will be affected past your subscription to Apple Ane and y'all will be refunded for the remainder of the time period left on the individual service subscriptions. For instance, if you have an iCloud Storage subscription and subscribe to i of the Apple One tiers, then your individual iCloud Storage subscription will be canceled and refunded for the remainder of the subscription period.

How to share an Apple One subscription

One of the key features of the Apple One subscription at the Family Tier and higher is the ability to share all of the benefits of the Apple tree One subscription with upwardly to five others.

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

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Tap your proper name at the top.
  3. Navigate to Family Sharing | Add together Member.
  4. Tap Invite People to begin, or create an business relationship for a child by selecting the appropriate option (Figure A).

Figure A

Tapping on Invite People will permit you send an invite via Messages, Email, or AirDrop.

If you're creating an business relationship that will need to be restricted, then you tin can create a new account for a child, or if the child already has an business relationship that's age restricted, you can merely invite normally through the Invite People menstruation. By borer on Invite People, you lot'll be prompted to send the invitation via Letters, E-mail, AirDrop, or some other app that's included in the Share Sheet.

As the person doing the inviting into the Family Sharing, you lot'll be considered the organizer and volition have the role of managing users in your family unit account. This ways that you lot will exist able to add together or remove users at volition. It's important to annotation that you can merely join one family unit at a time, and joining a family unit will forbid y'all from joining some other family for a menstruation of one twelvemonth to minimize abuse of this sharing feature.

In one case the other user has accepted your Family Sharing asking, and so y'all can run across which services are shared with any given user past going dorsum to Settings and navigating into this Family Sharing section of iCloud. Here at that place will be two sections: Shared With Your Family unit and More To Share.

The Shared With Your Family section

This section will bear witness everything that's automatically shared when starting the Family Sharing characteristic. Past default, many Apple Services including Apple TV+, Apple tree Music, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, and Store (iTunes Store, App Store, and Apple Books) purchases will exist shared.

Yous cannot keep users from sharing Apple Tv set+, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, or Apple News+, but you can prevent sharing of purchases by tapping on the Purchase Sharing department and selecting Cease Purchase Sharing (Effigy B). Whatever apps, books, or other purchases that you had shared volition no longer be accessible on the other member'due south devices.

Figure B

Finish sharing with family for any service and they will no longer have admission to the benefits of that service on their devices.

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

The More To Share section

Under the More To Share section, you can ready sharing of Apple Subscriptions, iCloud Storage, Apple Cash, Inquire To Buy, and Screen Time.

The main affair nosotros're interested in enabling here is iCloud Storage. This will permit y'all share a single iCloud Storage plan of the organizer's business relationship with all of the family unit members as a single bucket of storage. To do this, tap iCloud Storage, then tap Share Storage Program (Effigy C).

Figure C

Sharing your storage plan with family members means they tin employ the storage from the organizer'southward storage bucket for their ain documents, files, etc.

How to effigy out how much data storage you're using

Afterwards you've started sharing your iCloud Drive storage with family members, you may wish to check on how much storage you're utilizing off of the organizer account. You can do this by following these steps:

  1. Open up the Settings app.
  2. Select your name at the height.
  3. Navigate to iCloud | Manage Storage.

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

Using iCloud Drive file and folder sharing

Of class, now that all the users of the family unit have additional storage added to their accounts, it'due south easy 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 unit files.

Folder sharing requires iOS 13.iv and beyond, and you tin can larn all about how it works in this TechRepublic commodity: How to share files and folders in iCloud Drive with iOS xiii.four.