After making iOS 9 available to the public on Wednesday, Apple has rolled out its new iCloud subscription plans with increased storage limits and revised pricing. Although its free tier hasn’t changed, all of the others have been altered in some way.
If you don’t want to pay a monthly fee for iCloud storage, then you’ll continue to receive the same 5GB storage limit you’re already used to. But for just $0.99 a month, you can now get 50GB of storage — up from 20GB previously.
Apple’s mid-tier 200GB plan remains the same when it comes to storage limit, however, it is now a penny cheaper at $2.99 a month. The 500GB plan has now been eliminated, but the high-tier 1TB plan is now $10 cheaper at just $9.99 a month.
“If you purchased a monthly plan before September 16, 2015, your account was upgraded automatically,” Apple explains. This means anyone who was on a 500GB plan previously will now be upgraded to the 1TB plan automatically, despite the extra cost that’s associated with that.
“If you’re currently on an annual plan, you’ll continue to renew annually at that rate,” Apple adds. If you shift away from the annual plan — which has no been eliminated — and move onto a monthly plan, then the annual option will no longer be available to you.
If you live outside of the U.S., you can view international iCloud pricing on Apple’s storage pricing page, which includes every country where iCloud storage is available.
To change your iCloud storage plan, follow these steps on your iOS device:
- Open “Settings”
- Tap “iCloud”
- Tap “Storage”
- Tap “Change Storage Plan”
- Select the plan you wish to move to and tap “Buy”
You can also change your iCloud storage plan from within the iCloud menu in System Preferences on your Mac, or within the iCloud for Windows client on your PC.
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