{"id":17203,"date":"2017-06-21T16:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=17203"},"modified":"2017-06-22T08:36:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T06:36:54","slug":"apple-music-launches-annual-subscription-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/apple-music-launches-annual-subscription-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Music Launches Annual Subscription Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you love streaming music services then the odds are that you&#8217;ve at least considered getting Apple Music.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17204\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8277-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8277-169x300.png 169w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8277-576x1024.png 576w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8277.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a first time user, Apple offers you a free 3-month trial. Once the trial period has elapsed, you&#8217;re able to continue using the service for a monthly fee or R59.99 for an individual membership, R89.99 for a family plan or a reduced cost of R29.99 a month for students.<\/p>\n<p>A new option is the annual plan which costs R599 for a full 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>In order to access the annual subscription option, you&#8217;ll need to have an active Apple Music subscription.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for the plan from your iOS device (iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch) here&#8217;s how to find it (or change to the plan if that&#8217;s what you&#8217;d like to do):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the App Store app<\/li>\n<li>At the bottom of the Featured tab, tap on your Apple ID<\/li>\n<li>Tap on View Your ID<\/li>\n<li>Sign in by either entering your password or using your fingerprint<\/li>\n<li>Tap on Subscriptions<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll see any and all subscriptions you have that are linked to your Apple ID, including your Apple Music subscription<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll see the option for the Annual subscription<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re accessing Apple Music from your computer, you&#8217;ll need to open the iTunes app and then:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17205 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-21-at-4.26.37-PM-300x162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-21-at-4.26.37-PM-300x162.png 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-21-at-4.26.37-PM-768x415.png 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-21-at-4.26.37-PM-1024x553.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select Music in the dropdown on the left hand side of the app<\/li>\n<li>Select Store<\/li>\n<li>Scroll to the bottom of the page where you&#8217;ll see a Manage heading<\/li>\n<li>Below\u00a0it, you&#8217;ll see Account, which you need to click on<\/li>\n<li>You might be prompted to enter your Apple ID password<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to Settings and tap on Manage<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll then see the Apple Music plans and the option to switch to the annual plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this stage, the annual subscription appears to be limited to the individual plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love streaming music services then the odds are that you&#8217;ve at least considered getting Apple Music. If you&#8217;re a first time user, Apple offers you a free 3-month trial. Once the trial period has elapsed, you&#8217;re able to continue using the service for a monthly fee or R59.99 for an individual membership, R89.99<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/apple-music-launches-annual-subscription-plan\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[166,2179],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/US_Listen_on_Apple_Music_Badge.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17220,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203\/revisions\/17220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}