Apple Music’s standard free trial offer is a generous 90 days so you should jump on this offer!
By using the Shazam app, would-be Apple Music subscribers can get a total of 6 months Apple Music for free. And you can even get some free months it if you’re currently, or have previously been, an Apple Music subscriber.
How to get your free 6 months of Apple Music
To take advantage of the offer, download and open the Shazam app. Next, hit the Library symbol on the top left of the home screen or swipe left to right. This should bring up a “Limited Time” offer for Apple Music. Tap Try Now, then Try It Free. Finally, hit Confirm and you’re all sorted.
An alternative way to take advantage of the offer is to use Shazam to identify a song. When you get Shazam to listen to a song, it will bring up associated info, such as lyrics and other tracks by the artist. In addition, this will bring up text reading: “Get up to 6 months free of Apple Music.”
Tap the text and you’ll get ushered through to a page where you can Try It Free.
And existing Apple Music customers look here!! 👀
The frustrating thing about these offers, of course, is that they often don’t apply to the most ardent supporters of a service. They’re there to pull in new customers, so if you’re someone already paying your monthly $10 there’s no need to offer it to you.
If you’re already an Apple Music subscriber, you can get three months for free by cancelling your subscription and resubscribing.
To do this, load up your Settings and navigate to Subscriptions. Then tap on Apple Music and Cancel Subscription. Next, open the Shazam app, go to the Library page and Settings Then tap on Disconnect next to Apple Music. With Apple Music disconnected, you should be able to see the offer as described above.
Existing users and previous members can also get 3 months for free, existing users will need to cancel their account first and you’ll also need to disconnect Apple music from Shazam if they were already connected. Normally we only see three or four months for new users, so this is much better than standard.
Spotify, an Apple Music competitor, is also running 3 mos for a one month, 3-month free trials, and 6 free months for AT&T Fiber subscribers.
To recap:
- It’s currently possible to get six months of Apple Music for free. To get this offer you need to do the following:
- Download Shazam & then identify a song if you haven’t already
- Hit ‘Library’
- Select any song
- Click open in Apple Music
- Prompt for six months free should show up
The Apple Music holidays offer was launched by Apple for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the USA, UK and Canada. It ran from November 29 through December 2. However, Apple has seemingly decided to extend this for the holidays.
