After six years, Apple is cutting the length of the Apple Music free trial period in every country where it’s available.
You’ve now got less time to decide whether or not Apple Music is the music streaming service for you: from this point on, users signing up for a free trial only get one month of listening without paying, down from the previous three months. Apple hasn’t announced the shift but it was spotted by Japanese blog Mac Otakara. It’s the first change to the free trial period since Apple Music was first unveiled to take on the likes of Spotify, back in June 2015. The pricing of the service remains unchanged, with subscribers having to pay $9.99 / £9.99 / AU$11.99 a month for the full Apple Music experience, and $4.99 / £4.99 / AU$5.99 for the recently launched Apple Music Voice plan, where everything is controlled through Siri. As before, you can’t take up more than one free trial with the same Apple ID – you get one shot to see what Apple Music has to offer, and then you have to either start paying for the service or forget about it.
