Klutzes rejoice: AppleCare Plus now covers limitless repairs

If you’re the form of one who’s at all times dropping your telephone, AppleCare Plus could have simply develop into a a lot better deal. As MacRumors points out, the service now covers “unlimited repairs for accidental damage protection.” According to an archived version of the AppleCare Plus page from final month, you was restricted to “two incidents of accidental damage protection every 12 months.”

Before you toss your telephone within the air in celebration, although, do observe that the service charges and deductibles are nonetheless round — a display or again glass restore will value $29, whereas “other accidental damage” will run you $99. Also, Apple’s fine print clearly notes that the harm needs to be brought on by “unexpected and unintentional events” to fall below AppleCare Plus.

The service itself is, maybe a bit surprisingly, nonetheless the identical worth. (Though that was a recurring theme throughout Apple’s occasion on Wednesday). Getting it for a brand-new iPhone 14 Pro will value $9.99 a month or $199 for 2 years, the identical worth it used to value to cowl an iPhone 13 Pro. However, protecting the iPhone 14 Plus does value greater than protecting the common iPhone 14 or the iPhone 13: it’s $8.99 a month versus $7.99 a month — or an additional $30 in the event you purchase the two-year plan.

The improve to the service isn’t only for the telephones Apple introduced on Wednesday. You also can get it for the iPhone 13 and iPhone 12, in addition to for the remainder of Apple’s lineup. Yes, this will even have you ever coated in the event you maintain unintentionally sending your AirPods by the wash, knocking your iPad off the counter, breaking your watch in a fall, or sitting in your MacBook Pro. (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 principally simply sits round the home.) I wasn’t capable of finding a single instance of the value for protection going up, although getting AppleCare Plus for the Apple Watch Ultra does value somewhat greater than it does for the Series 8.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for touch upon whether or not individuals who had purchased AppleCare Plus previously (say, when the iPhone 13 was first introduced) would get limitless repairs or would nonetheless be held to the twice-a-year restrict.

One last essential factor to notice: in the event you get AppleCare Plus with theft and loss safety, replacements for stolen or misplaced iPhones are nonetheless restricted to 2 per yr. You’ll nonetheless get the limitless repairs, however in the event you utterly lose your iPhone greater than twice a yr, you’ll be out of luck — not that it sounds such as you had a lot success to start with.