Apple has announced a significant price hike for its various subscription services in Canada, with some prices surging by as much as 50%. The price jumps are as much as 50% for Apple Arcade, while Apple TV+ has also seen a big increase as well.
“The subscription prices for Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, and Apple One will increase in the US and select international markets beginning today. Existing subscribers will see these price increases 30 days later, on their next renewal date,” Apple told MacRumors.
The new pricing structure is as follows for the following popular services:
Additionally, the Apple One bundles that include these services and more will also see a price increase:
It’s clear with these price increases, the Apple One bundles are starting to make more sense and that’s what Apple wants you to sign up for, especially if you have a family.
In a statement shared with MacRumors, Apple stated, “We are focused on delivering the best experiences possible for our customers by consistently adding high-quality entertainment, content, and innovative features to our services.”
Notably, there are no price increases for Apple Music and Apple Fitness+ today. This comes after a previous round of price increases in Canada in October of last year for Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple One.
What do you think about these latest price increases for Apple services? What are you currently subscribed to?
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It will soon be time to go back to cable!
Imagine if cable made a come back?
Lower prices to about the price of two streaming services, include a bunch of perks (premium channels), and adding on demand for every show out there.
Turn the world upside down. It would be entertaining.
If your mind has melted enough to support the horrible ads
If your mind has melted enough to support the horrible ads
Apple Arcade is worth $6/mo. but $9? No thanks! I’ll stick with my $35/year Google Play Pass.
It’s absurd at $9! I only have it due to my Apple One sub, but with another price hike to that as well I feel like it’s time to cancel.
The jump is way too high. I am already cutting a lot of services and time to go back to ol’school pirating.
I don’t know if I’d go back to cable, but it’s definitely coming time decide which one or, at most, two services to keep and which to cut loose. Right now, surprisingly, Apple TV+ is the service I watch the most, and I almost never check Netflix or Disney+ anymore. Those could easily go.
Thats insane! Its already overpriced
More greedy companies taking advantage of people. Disgusting.
Apple TV+ has no business being so expensive for so little content.
I agree but at the same time it’s not about the quantity, but the quality. I have enjoyed everything I watched on Apple TV+, my brother shared his Prime account with me and there is like 3 good series on the whole service
Agreed! I like the service, but that’s rich for the library size.
I will keep searching for free trials.
Time to get my family members to contribute.
Crazy. We’ve gone from $33.95 to $44.95 in less than a year for One Premier. And no major improvements… I would understand if they added some new features or upped storage from 2 to 5TB.
Apple wants to increase prices to make up for lost sales on iPhone 15!
21% increase in a year and they just increased prices the year before. Is it that the media costs that much more now? Apple seem to like to keep a certain margin and don’t vary much from that. Anyway, that’s a whole lot of inflation!
If only Apple were to justify the price increase for Apple News on getting rid of ads. Seriously, why am I reading and watching ads for PAID service????? And how are these companies justifying increases 5-6 times inflation which is already high at 4% a year? I have received 1.5% pay increase in the last 8 years.
Well I’m with everyone on this when it comes to the Apple TV+ Canada library size. Its small for the price you pay.
At the same time the Canadian dollar might as well be re-named to the Canadian rupee, pretty much worthless. Try and go to the US or the EU. Those same strawberries are still $4.99, in USD.
Got the email this morning, promptly cancelled subscription. Catalog is decent but tiny. I’ll just torrent the Apple stuff I want thank you very much. 44% increase = adios.
My annual is about to renew. I switched to monthly and will make sure I deactivate the subscription for about six months out of the year. A 40% increase is ludicrous with a library as small as theirs.