{"id":137792,"date":"2026-07-18T12:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/07\/18\/apple-bumps-up-the-cost-of-icloud-in-8-countries"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:11:01","slug":"apple-bumps-up-the-cost-of-icloud-in-8-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/18\/apple-bumps-up-the-cost-of-icloud-in-8-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple bumps up the cost of iCloud+ in 8 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/apple-bumps-up-the-cost-of-icloud-in-8-countries.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"article-lede\">Apple has continued to put the prices up for its online services, with <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/icloud\" title=\"iCloud\" data-kpt=\"1\">iCloud+<\/a> rising in cost in a number of territories.\n<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of a few days, Apple has been increasing the prices of its various <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/07\/17\/is-apple-one-worth-it-in-summer-2026-after-the-latest-price-increases\">online services<\/a>. Not to be left behind, iCloud+ has now upped its prices to join the rest of the roster.\n<\/p>\n<p>The change, revealed by Apple&#8217;s iCloud+ pricing <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/108047\">support page<\/a>, doesn&#8217;t outright say what countries are affected by the pricing. However, comparisons with previous pricing, including via the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260613235334\/https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/108047\">Wayback Machine<\/a>, shows it affects eight countries in total.\n<\/p>\n<p>The affected countries, seeing higher iCloud pricing, include:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Indonesia<\/li>\n<li>Japan<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Philippines<\/li>\n<li>Turkiye<\/li>\n<li>Vietnam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The price increases vary between territories, but fall in the range of 17% to 30%. For example, the 50GB plan was 150 yen per month but is now 180 yen, up 20%.\n<\/p>\n<p>Pricing in other markets, including the United States and United Kingdom, remains unchanged. The perks of iCloud+ also hasn&#8217;t changed, including Hide My Email, iCloud Private Relay, a custom email domain, and <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/homekit\" title=\"HomeKit\" data-kpt=\"1\">HomeKit<\/a> Secure Video support.\n<\/p>\n<p>While Apple hasn&#8217;t explained why the prices have changed, it is most likely the company periodically accounting for changes in currency conversion.\n<\/p>\n<p>Other price upgrades this week include <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-one\" title=\"Apple One\" data-kpt=\"1\">Apple One<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-music\" title=\"Apple Music\" data-kpt=\"1\">Apple Music<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/applecare\" title=\"AppleCare\" data-kpt=\"1\">AppleCare+<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has continued to put the prices up for its online services, with iCloud+ rising in cost in a number of territories. Over the course of a few days, Apple has been increasing the prices of its various online services. Not to be left behind, iCloud+ has now upped its prices to join the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}