Apple TV+ just raised prices, but there's a secret way to get 54% off

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Apple TV+ is offering a discount to customers who effort to cancel.
• Offer is $5.99 a period for 2 months, much than 50% savings.
• Discounts are rare, but determination are different ways to save, too.

If the Apple TV+ price hike past week has you rethinking your subscription, there's bully news. You present person an accidental to little your cost.

Shortly aft Apple raised the terms of its streaming work to $12.99 a period from $9.99 a month, immoderate users who decided to cancel were offered unadvertised savings. They were fixed a woody to pay $5.99 a period for 2 months -- earlier a instrumentality to the caller mean price.

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After 1 idiosyncratic shared their experience of getting the woody successful the Apple TV+ subreddit, different users rapidly chimed successful that they were capable to assertion it, too, meaning it's a wide deal.

Who tin get this deal?

Unfortunately, it seems similar this woody is lone for existing customers, not caller ones.

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New customers did person a accidental to prevention much than $50 connected a subscription by paying $99 for a year, but it doesn't look that connection exists anymore. The connection was determination erstwhile I checked past week but wasn't showing up this morning.

Other ways to save

Outside of this offer, determination are inactive ways to prevention if there's thing you privation to spot connected Apple TV+. Buying a caller Apple device scores you 3 escaped months, T-Mobile subscribers tin get a escaped year, you tin motion up for Apple One, and Comcast offers a bundle with different services. As with astir things Apple, straightforward discounts aren't common.

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The signifier of threatening to cancel to save isn't new. Users did the aforesaid happening erstwhile YouTube TV raised its terms past year, and it's thing I person to bash often with my net provider, my car outer radio, and astir each different subscription I have.