{"id":622,"date":"2026-07-22T13:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=622"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:58:12","slug":"apple-music-subscription-prices-rise-due-to-higher-licensing-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Apple Music subscription prices rise due to higher licensing costs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Apple is raising prices on Apple Music subscriptions as well as certain Apple One plans as the company faces higher licensing costs.<\/p>\n
The tech giant last week hiked prices for Apple Music plans across subscription tiers. Individual plans will rise by $1 a month to $11.99, while student plans will increase by the same amount to $6.99 a month.<\/p>\n
Prices for the Apple Music family plan are also rising by $3 per month to a new monthly rate of $19.99.<\/p>\n
The company also hiked prices for some tiers of Apple One \u2013 the company’s bundle that allows consumers to subscribe simultaneously to Apple TV, Music, iCloud+, Arcade, Fitness+ and News+ or the first four services.<\/p>\n
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Apple raised prices on Apple Music plans as well as some Apple One packages.<\/span> (CFOTO\/Future Publishing via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Prices for the Apple One family tier are set to rise by $2 to a new total of $27.95 per month. Family plans may be shared with up to five people and have up to 200 gigabytes of iCloud storage, though they don’t include News+ or Fitness+ in the package.<\/p>\n
The individual Apple One subscription, which includes the same four services but with 50 gigabytes of iCloud storage, is unchanged at $19.95 a month.<\/p>\n
Apple One’s Premier package, which includes all six of the company’s subscription services with up to 2 terabytes of storage and may be shared among five people, will rise in price by $2 to $39.95 per month.<\/p>\n
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The price increases apply to consumers in the U.S. as well as other countries around the world.<\/p>\n
The moves weren’t announced by Apple, which adjusted the prices for the various subscriptions and tiers on its website on Friday. Apple told 9to5Mac, “As a result of rising licensing costs, Apple Music is increasing its subscription price beginning today.”<\/p>\n
FOX Business reached out to Apple for comment.<\/p>\n
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In late June, Apple announced price hikes for its iPad tablets and MacBook laptops amid rising memory chip costs.<\/p>\n
The company raised the price of the MacBook Air by $200 to a new total of $1,299, while the budget Neo laptop price rose from $599 to $699. The price of a MacBook Pro with 1 terabyte of storage rose $300 to $1,999, while the iPad Air with 128 gigabytes of storage rose from $599 to $749.<\/p>\n
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Apple said at the time that it has “never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly,” adding that it had “shielded our customers from these increases so far, but we have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices on a number of products.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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