Apple is offering some exclusive discounts to Apple Card Holders like free News+ and unlimited coffee from Panera Bread — who would say no to that!
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Apple has today announced a major new solution for its Apple Card ecosystem and is calling it the Apple Card Family. As the name makes it abundantly clear, it is intended towards helping Apple Card-holders share it with their loved ones. The key premise here is to allow users co-own their Apple Card with a family member, letting them jointly keep an eye on spendings, track transactions, and build a credit line together. All this comes to life with the Family Sharing feature. Apple Card Family will roll out next month and will require users to upgrade to the latest iOS build.
Co-owning an Apple Card facilitates a combined credit limit and a single monthly bill.
“Apple Card Family allows two people to co-own an Apple Card, and share and merge their credit lines while building credit together equally,” Apple notes in its newsroom post. In addition to sharing Apple Card with a partner or family member, the new solution will also allow parents to share their Apple Card with their children, provided they are 13 years or older. Apple says that this capability will let parents keep a track of the spending habits of their children and can also impose limits on how much they can shell out.
Talking more about the sharing or co-owning part, Apple Card owners will be able to share their card with up to five people, all of whom have to be a part of the same Family Sharing Group. Of course, all the members must be 13 years or older, as mentioned above. When it comes to co-owning it, the person must be at least 18 years of age to build a credit history together on the same Apple Card. The key benefits of co-owning are that you get the convenience of a combined credit limit and get a single monthly payment bill.
Customers can merge their Apple Card accounts to achieve a higher credit limit
As for the combined credit limit convenience, the company notes that customers can choose to merge their Apple Card accounts to achieve a higher credit limit while also retaining the lower APR. Lastly, those who co-own an Apple Card or happen to be participants in a family sharing group will be rewarded with Daily Cash for purchases made using the Apple-branded card.
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Apple has launched a website (card.apple.com) for Apple Card users that acts as a dashboard for them to manage their account activity. The new Apple Card web portal allows users to check their account details and pay their monthly installment bills online.
The dashboard lets Apple Card users check their account balance and also see how much credit they still have left, aside from paying their bills. There are separate tabs for Payments, Installments, and Statements in the left pane of the dashboard. Earlier, the only way to do all this was through Apple’s Wallet app for iPhones.
Users can sign in to the new Apple Card web dashboard with their Apple ID. Finally having a website will prove to be quite convenient for users if they lose access to the Wallet app due to reasons such as the phone running out of juice, malfunctioning device, or simply having misplaced it.
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Apple’s interest-free financing plans for iPhone purchases made using an Apple Card were introduced last year. The company is now expanding the initiative to a wider range of products that include, Macs, iPad, XDR Display, Apple TV, HomePod, AirPods, and a wide range of accessories.
If you are purchasing a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro, and Mac mini, you can avail a 12-month, 0% interest plan with an Apple Card. For an Apple TV, HomePod, and AirPods, the tenure for installments is reduced to six-months. Surprisingly, you can pay for accessories over a period of 12-months.
Accessories that are eligible for a zero fee installment plan for Apple Card-holders are:
As for the other benefits of using an Apple Card, buyers get 3% cashback on the purchase price of their new Apple product upfront, and that amount is immediately transferred to the Apple Cash card in the Wallet app.
Source: Apple
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After allowing Apple Card holders to skip their monthly payment in March, Apple and Partner Goldman Sachs are now letting them defer it for another month.
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Google is apparently working to link their Google Pay accounts to checking accounts with the collaboration of Citigroup
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As it turns out, Apple has been working on an iTunes credit card back in 2004, when Steve Jobs wanted to introduce it to promote music purchases.
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