Some iCloud+ subscribers can now choose annual billing, but availability varies by country and reported savings are small compared with monthly plans.
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iCloud+ Now Allows 10 Custom Email Addresses Per Domain
Apple now says iCloud+ supports up to 10 personalized email addresses per custom domain, while standard @icloud.com aliases remain limited to three.
Apple Boosts Custom Email Address Limit For iCloud Plus Users
Apple recently upgraded its iCloud+ subscription, allowing users to create up to ten personalized custom domain email addresses without extra monthly fees.
iCloud storage glitch leaves a red Settings badge stuck on iPhone
An iCloud storage notification glitch is leaving a red Settings badge on some iPhones, even when users already have an active paid storage plan.
Apple Intelligence for Home requires iCloud+ starting at 2TB, Apple says
“Apple Intelligence for Home requires an iCloud+ subscription starting at 2TB.” That line appears in Apple’s release notes for iOS & iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and tvOS 27, and in the US the smallest plan that meets it, 2TB, costs $9.99 a month. The Apple logo. Image: Apple The note is one sentence long. It…
Shared albums in iOS 27 count others' uploads toward the owner's iCloud storage
If you create a shared album in iOS 27, its photos and videos count toward your iCloud storage, and so does everything your participants add. Temporary albums, which expire after 30 days, are the exception. The Photos app on iPhone 18 Pro. Image: Apple Apple set out the rules in a Shared Albums limits document…
Apple One closes to new subscribers in India and other iCloud+ bundle countries
New customers in India can no longer sign up for Apple One, and anyone there who pays for Apple TV or Apple Arcade on its own will have that subscription cancelled and folded into iCloud+. Current Apple One members keep their plans. A presenter on stage at Apple Park Both changes are in the fine…
Apple One Undercuts Its Six Services by Up to 47 Percent, All Now Priced on Their Own
Apple One costs $21.95, $27.95 or $39.95 a month, and Apple’s own pages now carry a current standalone US price for every service inside it. Added up separately, those six services cost $34.96 to $74.94 a month, which means Apple One undercuts them by roughly 37 to 47 percent depending on the tier. iOS 27…
iOS 27's Release Notes List Six Changes Its Own Consumer Page Never Mentions
Apple’s developer-facing release notes for iOS 27 describe six changes that do not appear anywhere on Apple’s public iOS 27 page: a 2TB iCloud+ requirement for one Home feature, the end of new AirPort Utility downloads, PlayStation Access controller support, a new chip-level security layer, a stricter network security rule, and a new on-device dictation…
iPhone 18 Pro Data Transfer: iCloud Backup, Quick Start or a Cable, Compared
Apple publishes three separate ways to move data onto a new iPhone, and iPhone 18 Pro buyers get to pick whichever fits the morning they actually have. Quick Start is wireless and immediate, an iCloud backup works even when the two phones are not together, and a cable transfer skips the network entirely. Here is…
Apple Reversed Its Sign In With Apple Domain Change After Developer Feedback
Apple has reversed part of a domain migration for Sign in with Apple. A June 15, 2026 developer news post said both new Sign in with Apple relay addresses and iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses would move to a single new domain, private.icloud.com. An August 24, 2026 update partly undid that: Hide My Email addresses…
Advanced Data Protection for iCloud: One Apple Page Says 25 Categories, Another Says 23
Apple’s iCloud data security overview names 15 data categories as end-to-end encrypted by default, rising to 25 once Advanced Data Protection is turned on. Apple’s own platform security guide, describing the same feature, states 14 and 23. The two Apple pages do not agree on the count, though both list the same kind of exceptions…
Mail Privacy Protection and iCloud Private Relay: The Two-Relay Systems Apple Documents
Apple documents Mail Privacy Protection and iCloud Private Relay as two separate features built on the same idea: split a piece of network traffic across two relays run by different parties, so that neither one alone can see both who a person is and what they are doing. One covers email opens in Mail. The…
iCloud+ Family Sharing Covers Up to Five Other People, at Every Tier
Every iCloud+ tier, from the $0.99 50GB plan up to the $59.99 12TB plan, includes family sharing for up to five other members, according to Apple’s own support page. That is the only family-sharing headcount Apple publishes across its current storage and subscription pricing. iCloud+ family sharing works the same way regardless of which iPhone…
Turn Off iCloud Backup and Apple Keeps It for Exactly 180 Days
Apple states that if iCloud Backup is turned off for a device, any backups already stored in iCloud are kept for 180 days before being deleted. That single sentence, from Apple’s own support documentation, is the only expiration window Apple publishes for a consumer’s iCloud backups. Apple's backup guidance is written for iOS 26 today,…
iCloud+ Pricing in Full: Five Tiers From $0.99 to $59.99, and What Each Adds Beyond Storage
Apple prices iCloud+ storage at five tiers, from 50GB at $0.99 a month up to 12TB at $59.99 a month in the United States, according to Apple’s own support page. Every tier, cheapest to most expensive, bundles the same set of extra features on top of the storage itself. iCloud+ is set up from the…
iCloud or Your Mac Before iOS 27: What Each Apple Backup Method Actually Saves
iOS 27 becomes available free on iPhone and iPad this Monday, September 14. Before it does, Apple’s own update instructions put one step ahead of everything else, including opening Settings: back up the device, using iCloud or a computer. iOS 27 becomes available free on iPhone and iPad on Monday, September 14. Image: Apple Apple…
Apple Has Given Two Different Answers on Paying for More Apple Intelligence
Apple has published two statements about paying for more Apple Intelligence, four months apart, and they do not line up. In June it said increased access comes with most iCloud+ subscription plans. In September it said expanded access will be available for a fee in the future. The daily usage limits are published in footnotes…
iOS 27 Home Cameras: The Hub, iCloud+ Plan and iPhone Apple Says You Need
The new Home features in iOS 27 do not run on an iPhone by itself. Apple attaches three conditions to the camera side of it: a home hub, an iCloud+ subscription and an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence. All three are listed as requirements, not suggestions. Apple Intelligence features need a supported chip, such as…
iPhone 18 Pro Storage vs iCloud: The $5.56 a Month That Decides Which Is Cheaper
The first storage step on iPhone 18 Pro costs $200, the difference between $1,199 for 256GB and $1,399 for 512GB on Apple’s US Store page. Spread across three years of owning the phone that is $5.56 a month, and that is the number any cloud plan has to beat before it is the cheaper way…
iOS 27 Enhanced Flyover in Maps and iCloud Shared Albums for Android and Windows: Two Features Apple Skipped on Stage
Two of the more practical iOS 27 additions never reached the stage on September 9. Enhanced Flyover in Maps combines aerial imagery with Visual Intelligence models to render buildings and individual trees in sharp detail, and a rebuilt iCloud Shared Albums makes it easier for friends and family on Android or Windows to join an…
The Siri App in iOS 27: iCloud-Synced Conversation History and Picking Up Where You Left Off
iOS 27 adds a dedicated Siri app that collects every Siri AI conversation in one place, and Apple says it “uses iCloud to privately sync conversational history across a user’s products.” The point of that sync is continuity: Apple’s example is starting a conversation on a Mac and continuing it on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch…
Apple Faces Massive 3 Billion Pound Lawsuit Over iCloud Storage Charges
Apple is going to trial in the UK over claims it locked 40 million users into iCloud storage. The 3 billion pound lawsuit could lead to big refunds.
Apple Invites Update Adds Seven New Features and iMessage App
Apple Invites version 1.8 updates the iPhone app with seven helpful features. iCloud+ users get an iMessage extension, manual guest list editing, and more.