Again in 2021, Apple launched the Apple Music Voice Plan as an affordable entry into the music streaming service. This $5 plan compelled customers to make use of Siri to entry Apple Music. It’s restrictive however low-cost, and in case you weren’t the kind to fireside up the Apple Music app and peruse its contents, it was the right plan, providing full entry to the Apple Music library.
Two years later, the Apple Music Voice Plan has met its demise. As first reported by MacMagazine (a Brazilian website in Portuguese), Apple has eliminated references to the Voice Plan from its Apple Music web site. Now, the one plans out there are the Pupil ($5.99/£5.99 month-to-month), Particular person ($10.99/£10.99 month-to-month), and Household ($16.99/£16.99 month-to-month) plans. Apple Music can also be included in Apple One plans, which lately acquired their very own worth hike.
Apple didn’t make an official announcement concerning the Voice Plan discontinuation. Macworld has contacted Apple and can replace this text if the corporate gives a press release. We will guess that it wasn’t an enormous vendor as a result of reliance on Siri and received’t be missed a lot.
The Voice Plan appeared like a good suggestion when it was launched. Not solely was it an affordable method to get Apple Music, however it appeared suited to Apple’s HomePod, HomePod mini, Apple Watch, and CarPlay. It additionally appeared like a match for the upcoming Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. However the Voice Plan has many restrictions, reminiscent of no Dolby audio help, it didn’t show lyrics, and it needed to be at all times linked to the web.
Apple doesn’t launch subscriber numbers and information, so nobody outdoors of Apple is aware of how many individuals used the Voice Plan. However since Apple discontinued it, doubtless there weren’t many. To entry the plan, you wanted a Siri-enabled gadget to make use of it—HomePod, AirPods, iPhone, and so on.—so Android telephones and Home windows PCs had been out of the query.