In case you’re the type of one who’s all the time dropping your telephone, AppleCare Plus could have simply change into a significantly better deal. As MacRumors factors out, the service now covers “limitless repairs for unintentional harm safety.” In response to an archived model of the AppleCare Plus web page from final month, you was restricted to “two incidents of unintentional harm safety each 12 months.”
Earlier than you toss your telephone within the air in celebration, although, do word that the service charges and deductibles are nonetheless round — a display screen or again glass restore will price $29, whereas “different unintentional harm” will run you $99. Additionally, Apple’s positive print clearly notes that the harm needs to be brought on by “sudden and unintentional occasions” to fall beneath AppleCare Plus.
The service itself is, maybe a bit surprisingly, nonetheless the identical value. (Although that was a recurring theme throughout Apple’s occasion on Wednesday). Getting it for a brand-new iPhone 14 Professional will price $9.99 a month or $199 for 2 years, the identical value it used to price to cowl an iPhone 13 Professional. Nevertheless, overlaying the iPhone 14 Plus does price greater than overlaying the common iPhone 14 or the iPhone 13: it’s $8.99 a month versus $7.99 a month — or an additional $30 in case you purchase the two-year plan.
The improve to the service isn’t only for the telephones Apple introduced on Wednesday. You can even get it for the iPhone 13 and iPhone 12, in addition to for the remainder of Apple’s lineup. Sure, this may also have you ever coated in case you preserve by chance sending your AirPods via the wash, knocking your iPad off the counter, breaking your watch in a fall, or sitting in your MacBook Professional. (It additionally applies to the Apple TV and HomePod Mini, however I’m hard-pressed to think about the way you’d break a tool that largely simply sits round the home.) I wasn’t capable of finding a single instance of the worth for protection going up, although getting AppleCare Plus for the Apple Watch Extremely does price somewhat greater than it does for the Collection 8.
The change can be retroactive. I bought AppleCare Plus for my iPhone 12 in December 2020, and acquired an e-mail from Apple on Friday telling me that my plan “now protects your coated gadget from limitless incidents of unintentional harm from dealing with.” The e-mail continued, saying that the additional safety comes at no extra cost, and that I didn’t must do something to activate it.
One remaining necessary factor to notice: in case you get AppleCare Plus with theft and loss safety, replacements for stolen or misplaced iPhones are nonetheless restricted to 2 per 12 months. You’ll nonetheless get the limitless repairs, however in case you utterly lose your iPhone greater than twice a 12 months, you’ll be out of luck — not that it sounds such as you had a lot success to start with.
Replace September ninth, 9:45PM ET: Up to date to notice that the adjustments to AppleCare Plus are retroactive.