{"id":765172,"date":"2026-07-15T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765172\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T23:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:00:39","slug":"applecare-gets-a-price-increase-for-new-mac-and-ipad-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765172\/","title":{"rendered":"AppleCare+ gets a price increase for new Mac and iPad plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/applecare.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"AppleCare+\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-15\/apple-boosts-applecare-monthly-prices-by-50-cents-in-latest-increase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports, Apple has increased its monthly and annual AppleCare+ rates for new Mac and iPad customers. Here are the details.<\/p>\n<p>AppleCare+ gets price bumps for new iPads and Macs<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/applecare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AppleCare+<\/a> is Apple\u2019s extended warranty and device protection service. It offers additional hardware coverage, technical support, and repairs for accidental damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, as spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-15\/apple-boosts-applecare-monthly-prices-by-50-cents-in-latest-increase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>, Apple increased AppleCare+ prices for Macs and iPads by 50 cents per month and $5 per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In practice, that makes the new prices as follows:<\/p>\n<p>New Macs<\/p>\n<p>New iPads<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth noting that the new prices affect only new sign-ups for Macs and iPads. Current customers will keep paying the old prices, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/25\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-applecare-one\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AppleCare One<\/a>, the multi-device protection plan Apple launched last year, doesn\u2019t appear to be affected by the changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To learn more about AppleCare+, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/applecare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Worth checking out on Amazon<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5mac.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Bloomberg reports, Apple has increased its monthly and annual AppleCare+ rates for new Mac and iPad customers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-765172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}