With Apple
Card reaching out to more users, we’ve learned additional details
about things like cashback, approval odds, and more. Now, it appears
that iPhone Upgrade Program payments fall into the 3% Apple Card
cashback category, even though they aren’t billed through Apple.
Earn Apple Card Cashback
As a quick
refresher, you get 3% cashback on Apple
Card purchases made through Apple.
This includes things like the App Store and iTunes, Apple Music,
hardware purchases, iCloud, and more. Apple Pay purchases from any
retailer earn 2%, while everything else earns 1%.
- Get 3% back on everything you buy from Apple, whether you buy it at an Apple Store the App Store, or iTunes. That includes games, in app purchases, and services like your Apple Music subscription and iCloud storage plan.
- Get 2% back every time you buy something using Apple Pay. That’s in every category, with no limits. Imagine all the things you use a credit card for every day — at Target, Walgreens, Lyft. You’ll get 2% back on just about everything.
- If you happen to come across a store, website, or app that doesn’t take Apple Pay yet, use your titanium Apple Card to get 1% of those purchases back in the form of Daily Cash.
Interestingly,
it appears as if iPhone
Upgrade Program monthly payments
fall into that 3% category. Even though these loans are generally
billed through Citizens One Bank, Apple Card counts the payments as
an Apple purchase, and thus gives you 3% cashback.
Whether or
not the iPhone Upgrade Program would count as an Apple purchase was
one of the early questions we had about Apple Card. It’s nice to
see that this is something Apple seemingly considered ahead of
launch.
This means
every time your monthly iPhone Upgrade Program payment is processed,
you’ll get 3% cashback deposited onto your Apple Cash card. Apple
Pay cashback is made available everyday through Apple Cash.
As Apple
winds down its partnership with Barclaycard, there’s speculation
that it might also soon offer special financing for Apple purchases
through Apple Card. This would be a nice addition for Apple
Card holders coming over from the
long-running Barclaycard Apple rewards partnership.
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