According to MacMagazine, Apple no longer offers its $4.99 Apple Music Voice Plan. With the Voice Plan, introduced in 2021, you can access the Apple Music library via Siri across all of your devices. As of Wednesday, it is no longer listed as one of the Apple Music plans you can subscribe to on Apple’s website; the grid currently includes Student, Individual, and Family. According to an archived version of the page on the Wayback Machine, the Voice Plan was listed on the website as of Tuesday.
The Voice Plan lets you use Siri to listen to songs, playlists, and more from the Apple Music library. You could ask Siri to play music on all your Apple devices, like your iPhone, iPad, HomePod, and Apple Watch. But now Apple has removed this plan.
If you are already using the Voice Plan, Apple will stop automatic payments to renew it. You have the option to switch to a different Apple Music plan instead. The cheapest option now is the $5.99 Student plan, but only students can sign up for that one.
Amazon still offers its own $4.99 music plan that works with Echo and Fire TV devices. But you can only use that service on one Amazon device.
Apple recently increased prices for most of its Apple Music plans. The Student plan went up to $5.99. Individual and Family plans have cost more since October.
It seems Apple has stopped the affordable Voice Plan option controlled by Siri. Existing users can keep using it until renewal, but there are no new signups. Students or those willing to spend more have other Apple Music tiers to choose from instead.
