Apple Launches AppleCare One Family: A New Device Protection Plan for the Whole Household. To utilize the service, Family Sharing must be enabled in Settings on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Apple has introduced AppleCare One Family, a new device protection subscription available to customers in the US. It extends Apple’s existing AppleCare One plan — until now built for a single person’s devices — to cover everyone in a household at once. The announcement came quietly, almost as a footnote, during Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event this week, where the company’s main focus was the iPhone 18 Pro and the newly unveiled iPhone Duo. But for anyone managing more than one Apple device across a family, this might end up being the more practical announcement of the two. Why This Plan Exists AppleCare One originally launched in the US back in July 2025, aimed at people juggling several of their own Apple products. The idea was simple: instead of paying for a separate AppleCare+ subscription per device, you pay one fixed monthly fee and cover up to three products under it. It worked well for someone with, say, a personal iPhone, iPad, and MacBook — but it did nothing for a spouse’s phone or a kid’s iPad, since those needed their own separate plans entirely. AppleCare One Family closes that gap. Instead of coverage tied to one person’s Apple ID, it extends across an entire Family Sharing group of up to six people. What It Costs, and What It Covers The AppleCare One Family subscription costs $49.99 per month in the US (as per MacRumors report)— working out to roughly $600 a year. That’s a noticeable step up from the individual plan’s $19.99 monthly price, but the comparison isn’t really apples-to-apples once you factor in how many devices and people it can realistically cover. The plan includes the same core benefits as AppleCare+: coverage for accidental damage like drops and spills, battery replacement service, and priority support from Apple’s own experts. On top of that, it adds theft and loss protection for eligible iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch models across the whole family group — not just the plan owner’s device. Apple says there’s no annual limit on accidental damage or warranty claims, but theft and loss claims are capped at six per year for the entire family group combined. That’s an important detail to actually sit with — it’s not six claims per person, it’s six claims total, shared across everyone on the plan. Read full post here: https://deals.technoxmart.xyz/applecare-one-family-protection-plan/