William Gallagher
For a limited period - and with certain conditions - adding a family member to an existing Apple Card account gets them $10.
Other than a recent erroneous offer of 6% Daily Cash, Apple Card has not seen many new incentives for users. Now, however, Apple has emailed users to offer $10 for any family member they add to their card between November 4, 2021, through November 30, 2021.
Apple is fine with you adding "anyone you call family," so long as they are 13 years or older. A user's Apple Card can be shared with up to five such family members and as each one joins, they get $10 — if they also make a purchase with the card in the first 30 days.
It's an extension of Apple Card Family, first announced in April 2021. And it does come with a lot of conditions.
As well as adding a new family member within the eligibility period and as well as them using the Apple Card to buy something within 30 days, there is more. Most notably:
Users can add up to five family members, but can't add the same one twice
Existing Apple Card users can't merge their card accounts to get the $10
If a new user buys an item in the period but then returns it, they lose the $10
Apple's email does say that if such a person then buys something else within the period, they will again qualify for the $10. However, this "re-fulfillment" as Apple calls it, "may be delayed."
Apple Card was launched in 2019 and has been a huge, if sometimes controversial, success for Apple. It is exclusively available in the US.
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"Apple is fine with you adding "anyone you call family," so long as they are 13 years or older." - well, that and that whoever you add has to have their own Apple ID! Our family has had a shared Apple ID since they first appeared. Initially because there simply wasn't a need for multiple and because our daughter couldn't have gotten one even if she had wanted to, since it required a credit card and she was 10 at the time. Later, Apple began making Apple ID a very individual thing and tried to help people go that route by introducing things like 'family sharing'. Alas, family sharing is incomplete - you could not share contacts, calendars, etc. so we stuck with our 'family Apple ID'. But Apple is making it ever more inconvenient to do so - from its constant screw ups in keeping our health & activity data separate, to AirPods of one family member constantly trying to connect to other member's iPhones,.....to this stupid Apple Card. Apple won't issue us a second Apple Card - as you can only have one Apple Card per Apple ID. Absurd really. My wife, who earns more than me, can't have her own physical Apple Card, simply because of Apple policies - it's not like there's a technical reason for why two physical cards couldn't exist at the same time.
We love the Apple Card. We've pretty much moved all our credit card usage over to it and Apple Pay. But Apple is really annoying for creating these artificial limits.
Apple should add Buy now,Pay later to it's credit card and mange it. Another service revenue stream.