Apple One is one of the many subscription offers offered by Apple. The company offers Apple One, a subscription focused on its services, AppleCare One, which allows you to protect your devices from damage and criminals at a more affordable price, and Apple Creator Studio, which combines nine creative applications from the company. Although each of these services has its own benefits, the Apple One subscription is the oldest available, and also the one with the most hidden benefits. For example, Apple One subscribers can enjoy Apple Invites, several daily puzzle games, and even get a discount when subscribing to Peacock.
Apple One is available in three tiers: Individual ($19.95/monthly), Home ($25.95/monthly), and Premier ($37.95/monthly). The first two tiers offer the same benefits, including Apple TV, Apple Music, and Apple Arcade. The biggest difference is that the Individual tier only offers 50GB of iCloud storage, while the Family tier offers 200GB of iCloud, plus the ability to share these services with up to five family members. Finally, Apple One Premier offers all the benefits of the Family tier, but with 2TB of iCloud, Apple Fitness+ and Apple News+.
Apple also offers a price breakdown, which generally shows that if you subscribe to Apple Music or Apple TV and iCloud, it’s already worth subscribing to Apple One. However, you get much more than these services.
Apple Invitations
Launched in 2025, Apple Invites is one of Apple’s newest apps. This free app requires an iCloud+ or Apple One subscription for users to take full advantage of it. You can plan events, like birthdays, holidays, or even just regular get-togethers with multiple people and let them choose the date and time that works best for them. What’s more interesting about this app is that it works on the web, so even Android users can participate. The Apple Invites app also lets you track RSVPs, add shared albums, and send email or text invitations.
The problem with Apple Invites is that only iCloud+ or Apple One subscribers can create invitations, which means other users can only participate by indicating whether or not they will attend an event and share photos.
This is one of the lesser-known features available with the Apple One subscription, but it can be very useful, especially if you’re tired of creating group chats every time you want to invite people to a party, birthday, or gathering. You can find the Apple Invites app on the App Store.
Daily puzzle games
Apple News+ isn’t as widely available as other Apple services, meaning only a handful of regions have access to Apple’s daily puzzle games. In the News+ app, users in the US, Canada, UK and elsewhere can enjoy crosswords, sudoku, quartiles and a new emoji game released with iOS 26. To enjoy these games, which are updated daily, users need a standalone Apple News+ subscription or an Apple One Premier subscription in one of the supported regions.
Quartile, for example, is a quirky word-building game that’s like a mix of Boggle and Scrabble, because you have a grid of 20 separate letters and you have to combine them to form valid words. The Emoji Game, on the other hand, is part anagram, part logic puzzle, as you have to decipher phrases, titles, idioms, or pop culture references represented by a sequence of emojis.
Apple News+ also offers two crossword games, the traditional full-size Daily Crossword and a 5×5 mini grid version, which features simple, clever clues and can be solved in 30 seconds to a few minutes. Finally, Sudoku is a classic Japanese logic number placement puzzle, in which you must fill a 9 x 9 grid with 1 to 9 numbers in each row, column and 3 x 3 box without overlapping numbers in the same row, column and box.
Use personalized emails
One of the most used features among iPhone users is iCloud. A few years ago, Apple updated this service with a “+”, which many might have overlooked. However, this means that in addition to storing your encrypted data in the cloud, iCloud offers many other benefits, such as the already mentioned Apple Invites app. One of the first features available with iCloud+ is the ability to use custom domains with the service. If you already have a custom domain and want to use it for email through Google Workspace or Microsoft, you need to pay a fee. At Apple, on the other hand, using email with your iCloud subscription is already included in the package. More importantly, it’s available to standalone Apple One and iCloud+ subscribers.
That said, while traditional custom email hosting relies on cumbersome webmail interfaces or requires you to manage complex server settings, Apple makes it simple by adding an extension to your Apple account. All messages can be sent directly to your Mail app, it uses your iCloud storage and you can even use it for FaceTime, iMessage and as your own Apple account ID.
On top of that, iCloud+ also offers the ability to share a single domain with up to five other people, either within the Family Sharing group or within other trusted contacts. Each person can have their own private inbox attached to your domain, with all data kept strictly separate. This feature is ideal for IT departments, small businesses, and entrepreneurs.
Guided outdoor workouts
If you have an Apple One Premier subscription, you can enjoy Apple Fitness+. One of my favorite Apple services, it helps me stay active and even stay motivated during workouts, thanks to its excellent fitness coaches.
With Apple Fitness+, users can enjoy multiple workout types and hundreds of practices available in a service that updates weekly, meaning there’s always something new to try. While the treadmill and yoga are my favorite things to do with Apple Fitness+, since I can use it on my Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad, the service is also available on smaller formats, like my Apple Watch.
For example, users can enjoy guided meditations, in addition to the “Time to Walk” and “Time to Run” programs. While the former combines celebrities and influencers (from Prince William to Malala) walking and sharing their experiences, Time to Run is a program that wants to help you run your first 5K. The coolest part about this workout is that Apple Fitness+ coaches run through some of the most beautiful cities in the world, and as you run with them, your Apple Watch gives you haptic feedback with some of the photos they took, the songs they were listening to, and also whether you need to go slightly faster or slower. Apple Fitness+ subscribers can also take their devices outside to enjoy workouts like yoga, HIIT, dance or Pilates in a park, which is also great.
Discount Peacock
Finally, another nice benefit of having an Apple One Family or Apple One Premier subscription is getting a discount when subscribing to Peacock. This partnership has been available since the end of 2025 and marks the new moment for Apple to become the broadcast partner of Formula 1 in the United States, while renaming its service simply Apple TV.
While the Apple TV and Peacock Premium plan is available for $14.99/month, or with a Peacock Premium Plus version for $19.99/month, Apple One and Apple Premiere subscribers can get the Premium Plus version at a discounted price, paying $11/month. One of the best things about Peacock’s Premium Plus subscription is that it is ad-free and users can download content to watch later.
To benefit from this discount, users must subscribe to the other service through the application to which they are already subscribed. If you’re already an Apple One Premiere subscriber, you’ll need to subscribe to Peacock through the Apple App Store, making sure it can verify that you’re an Apple One subscriber and eligible for the discount. Essentially, by paying for Apple One, you can also access some of the most interesting shows around, like “The Paper”, “The Traitors”, “The ‘Burbs”, “Love Island”, “All Her Fault”, “Ted” and more.
