You Can Avoid the Apple TV+ Price Hike (for Now)

Bad news: Apple is raising subscription prices . Apple Arcade will increase in price from $4.99 to $6.99, News+ from $9.99 to $12.99, and Apple TV+ from $6.99 to $9.99 . (Remember when the last one was $4.99?)

You may be preparing your wallet for this increase. Or, if you’re fed up with price increases, you can simply cancel your subscription altogether. Before you do this, know that there is a way to lock your subscription at the old price for a month or, in the case of Apple TV+, for a year . But you’ll have to act quickly.

If you haven’t signed up for these Apple services before, you may be stuck with the price hike. Luckily for you, you can take advantage of any free trials that are still offered. But anyone with an active or expired subscription to Apple services can bypass the price increase right now in their subscription settings.

Here’s how it works: Open Settings, tap your name at the top, then select Subscriptions . Here you will see all active and inactive subscriptions associated with your Apple ID. In my case, my Apple News+ and Apple TV+ subscriptions had expired. If I click any of them, I will have the option to renew at the old rate rather than the new one.

But this is good news for Apple TV+. While Apple News+ only offers a monthly subscription, Apple TV+ offers either a monthly or annual subscription. If you tap Apple TV+ and then select See All Plans , you’ll be able to choose either the old $6.99 monthly rate or the $69/year option.

Apple hasn’t said what its new annual price increase option will be, if any, so signing up for this new plan is the only way to lock in the old price from changes next year. If $9.99 a month is your only option going forward, you’ll save $50 for a year of Apple TV+.

If you only want to buy for a month, you can still save some money before the new prices take effect for you.