Apple Music is here. Here's how to sign up for the streaming, radio, and artist integration service.
Want to rock out to the Apple Music streaming service, view exclusive content on Connect, and listen to Beats 1 and other Apple Music radio stations ad-free? You need to sign up for your free three-month trial. Here's how you go about doing it.
How to sign up for Apple Music on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iOS 8.4.
- After it installs and reboots, launch the Music app. You'll see a splash screen that welcomes you to Apple Music. From here, you can tap Start 3 Month Free Trial to begin the registration process. (If you tapped Go to My Music after first seeing this screen, you can return to this signup at any time by tapping the Account icon in the top left corner of the Music app and tapping Join Apple Music.)
- Choose a membership plan: either the $9.99/month individual plan, or the $14.99 family plan, which supports up to six members of your family. Tap the one you want. (You won't be charged for each until your three-month trial ends.)
- Sign in to the iTunes Store with your Apple ID and password. You may also be prompted to agree to the new iTunes terms and conditions, if you haven't already.
- Confirm that you want to sign up for Apple Music.
You're all set! Get ready to enjoy three free months of Apple Music.
How to sign up for Apple Music on your Mac
- Update iTunes on your Mac to iTunes 12.2.
- After it installs and reboots, launch iTunes.
- If you don't immediate see a splash screen that welcomes you to Apple Music, click the For You tab along the top of the app.
- Select Join Apple Music to begin the registration process. (If you already launched iTunes and started using it, you can return to the signup at any time by going to Account > Apple Music in the menubar.)
- Choose a membership plan: either the $9.99/month individual plan, or the $14.99 family plan, which supports up to six members of your family. (You won't be charged for each until your three-month trial ends.)
- Sign in to the iTunes Store with your Apple ID and password. You may also be prompted to agree to the new iTunes terms and conditions, if you haven't already.
- Confirm that you want to sign up for Apple Music
- Choose whether you'd like to upload your computer's library to your iCloud Music Library.
You're all set! Get ready to enjoy three free months of Apple Music.
How to turn off Apple Music's automatic subscription
If you don't want Apple Music to automatically charge you after your three months are up, here's how to turn off auto-subscribe.
- Open Apple Music.
- Tap the Account icon in the upper left corner of the app, then tap View Apple ID.
- Select Manage under the Subscriptions subheader.
- Tap Your Membership above Apple Music Membership.
- Turn the slider next to Automatic Renewal to Off.
Once you disable Automatic Renewal, you'll have to return to this screen to activate your subscription when your free trial ends in September.
How to migrate your Beats Music subscription to Apple Music
- Download the Beats Music 2.3.3 update from the App Store.
- Open Beats Music and tap Get Started. (If you instead chose "Not Now," you can start the process at any time by tapping the hamburger menu in the upper left corner of Beats and tapping Join Apple Music.)
- In Apple Music, tap on the link that says "Beats Music Subscriber?"
- The app should prompt you to follow the same steps as above to continue.
Reader comments
How to sign up for Apple Music on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac
If Signing up for the famil plan, what will the process be for each additional Family member?
I'm an existing Beats family plan subscriber (via AT&T). When I open the updated Beats app and choose "get started", when redirected to the Apple Music app, I only have the option to join as an individual for $9.99/month. In the fine print it says the family's Beats Music subscription will be canceled. Individual family members can move their Beats account info to Apple Music individually.
WTH?
Hi Serenity, the iTunes account I use for app purchases is different from my iCloud account. I share my iTunes login with 2 other family members to consolidate purchases. If I want to subscribe to Apple Music, how can I do it so that my iCloud account is associated with Apple music, not the iTunes purchasing account? I don't want my music favorites and tastes to be mixed with the other family members.
Just make sure you're logging in with the correct account and you should be fine! The Apple Music account login is separate from iTunes.
This doesn't seem to be the case. I also use different accounts for iTunes and iCloud. I signed up for Apple Music with my iCloud account and then noticed when I went to the App Store that it had switched me to the iCloud account from my iTunes account. Switching back to my iTunes account consequently logged me out of Apple Music as it switched to the iTunes account as well. They seem to be linked with no way to be signed in to each with different accounts. I share the iTunes account with my spouse so using it for Apple Music is not an option. I also don't want to deal with having to constantly log out and in of the two accounts as I switch between functions. Family Sharing sounds like it's still a mess as well so it's looking like we won't be able to use Apple Music unless this is changed.
So do I need the family plan if I just want to have Apple Music on more than one of my devices on the same account?
Not unless you plan on playing those devices simultaneously.
Hmmm. My wife's on my account, so I guess I might play them simultaneously. I may need to set that up under her account.
This is kind of a leftover mess from when you had to be on the same account before the family sharing was set up.
Ok now the question becomes, what do I with my iTunes Match renewal under my iTunes account? I am due for a November renewal, so I assume if I sign up for Apple Music, I can turn off that auto renewal?
Correct.
I signed up for Apple music under the family plan and I'm trying to sign up my wife's phone but it keeps saying she needs a credit card on file to join even though we have family sharing turned on with my card as the form of payment. Does anyone know how to set up a second phone ?
Doesnt work here in asian region total useless update
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How to get the other 5 members have apple music ??? I signed up for the 6 member subscription
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I signed up for the family plan. I also signed up for family share and included my family member. However, when he goes into Apple Music it takes him to the subscription page and tells him he needs to sign up. How do I get family members on for which I have already signed up for the Family Plan?
I also had problems getting my wife's phone to recognize our Family Plan. I ended up opening Apple Music on her phone, clicking on the "Account" icon in the upper-left corner, and signing her out. I signed her back in, went to "For You" and it recognized our Family Plan.
Well I downloaded the new Apple music app only because it had bug fixes. I was disappointed that this happened. I think the price is to much. With price of data on most phone planes another $10.00 might push some peoples over the edge. There should be some lower cost plane. I use it some times but not enough too spent that kind of money. I hope they come up with something a little cheaper.
As near as I can tell, if you're already set up and happy with the "unofficial way" of sharing iTunes Store purchases (Apps, Music, whatever) amongst family members by using a common store account, then you can never use many of the new components of Apple Music. Here's the major reason why:
It's necessary to enable Family Sharing. Family Sharing has serious drawbacks that no one seems to have mentioned. One of the major drawbacks is that not all apps support it. Developers need to "opt-in". The result? A messy update process going forward. Another drawback is that in-app purchases are not transferrable by Family Sharing.
As near as I can tell, moving away from the "unofficial" sharing ability to the "official" sharing ability is more trouble than it's worth.
The improvements to the Music app are great, and are worth the upgrade IMHO. You can use some of the free streaming radio features of Apple Music, but not the personalized stuff; UNLESS you nuke from orbit, divorce yourself into a new individual store account, and start from scratch. This would mean losing an iTunes Match library if you already had a subscription under the common account.
Am I wrong? Has anyone else figured this out? Serenity has said elsewhere in the comments that, even with Family Sharing enabled, the Music and Store log-ins can be separate. I don't quite understand that.
When I started Apple Music on my iMac, it started uploading my library, and I hit the x in the info box, thinking that I was just getting rid of the little window. Turns out that it stopped uploading my library information at that point.
How can I reset everything and start all over with Apple Music? btw, i signed up as an individual account.
Getting absolutely mad
Why does it keep telling me insufficient funds I thought this was free for 3 months
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