Reprinted from TidBITS by permission; reuse governed by Creative Commons
license BY-NC-ND 3.0. TidBITS has offered years of thoughtful commentary
on Apple and Internet topics. For free email subscriptions and access to the
entire TidBITS archive, visit http://www.tidbits.com/


        You Can Now Extend AppleCare+ for Macs or Get It for an Apple TV

   Josh Centers

   Back in 2019, Apple made it so that you could pay month-to-month for to
   extend AppleCare+ coverage indefinitely for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple
   Watch (see '[1]Is Your AppleCare+ Expiring? You Can Now Renew It,' 19
   September 2019). Apple is now offering that extended coverage to Macs
   for owners in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom,
   and the United States.

   If you have an active AppleCare+ plan for a Mac, you can go to
   [2]mysupport.apple.com within 30 days of the coverage end date and
   follow the on-screen instructions to extend your coverage. It will
   automatically renew every month until canceled. In general, we
   recommend AppleCare+ for laptop Macs but not for desktop models, which
   are much less likely to suffer accidental damage.

   Unsure when your AppleCare+ coverage ends? Log in to
   [3]mysupport.apple.com and select your device to check the expiration
   date.

   Keen-eyed observers have also noticed that you can now buy AppleCare+
   when buying a new Apple TV, including the Apple TV HD. It costs $29 for
   3 years of accidental damage coverage. However, unless you anticipate
   small children hammering on your Apple TV, I don't recommend it. There
   just isn't much to break on the main Apple TV unit. Similarly, the new
   Siri Remote should be more durable than the previous model, and that
   one didn't seem to break all that often. You're more likely to lose an
   Apple remote than break it, and a new Siri Remote costs only $30 more
   than AppleCare+. Save your money.

   

References

   Visible links
   1. https://tidbits.com/2019/09/19/is-your-applecare-expiring-you-can-now-renew-it/
   2. http://mysupport.apple.com/
   3. http://mysupport.apple.com/

   Hidden links:
   4. https://tidbits.com/wp/../uploads/2021/04/Apple-TV-AppleCare.png

.