{"id":551539,"date":"2026-07-15T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551539\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:33:12","slug":"apple-bumps-monthly-applecare-for-ipad-mac-by-50-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551539\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple bumps monthly AppleCare+ for iPad, Mac by 50 cents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple has marginally increased the cost of its individual AppleCare+<\/a> subscription, costing consumers an extra 50 cents per month to protect their Mac or iPad. <\/p>\n

Just like any other subscription, warranty and repair services often go up in price over time. On July 15, Apple did just that to AppleCare+. <\/p>\n

The price for the monthly AppleCare+ packages increased by 50 cents per month, or $5 per year for the annual plan, reports<\/a> Bloomberg. <\/p>\n

For example, the AppleCare+ package for a 13-inch MacBook Air<\/a> now costs $7.99 per month or $79.99 per year, versus $7.49 and $74.99 previously. The Mac mini<\/a> now starts at $4.49 per month or $44.99 per year for coverage, while a 16-inch MacBook Pro<\/a> is $15.99 per month or $159.99 per year. <\/p>\n

On the iPad side, a base iPad is $5.99 per month or $59.99 per year, and an 11-inch M4<\/a> iPad Air is $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year. The M5 iPad Pro<\/a> is either $10.99 or $11.99 per month or $109.99 or $119.99 per year, depending on the size. <\/p>\n

AppleCare One<\/a>, Apple’s plan for protecting multiple devices for a flat rate, still starts at $19.99 per month to cover three devices. Additional products can be added at an unchanged $5.99 per month. <\/p>\n

While the price is going up for sign-ups for new plans, existing subscribers will be grandfathered in under the old pricing. It’s not clear right now how long the grandfathering will last, but presumably it is until the next renewal. <\/p>\n

The price change also only affects Macs<\/a> and iPads<\/a>. While this would normally impact the iPhone<\/a> too, Apple is anticipated to do so this fall, alongside its iPhone 18<\/a> generation launches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has marginally increased the cost of its individual AppleCare+ subscription, costing consumers an extra 50 cents per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-551539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}