Apple iOS 8.4: How to disable auto renewal of Apple Music membership after three-month free trial [GUIDE]

Technology giant Apple has released the much expected iOS 8.4 that incorporates a revamped Apple Music app and Beats 1 worldwide radio station. The Cupertino-based company's Apple Music audio streaming service lets users enjoy the app for free for a trial period of three months.

After the trial period expires, users will have to pay a monthly subscription fee of $9.99 (£6.40) for a single device or $15.99 for a family plan being offered by the company. By default, Apple sets the renewal of membership to "automatic". Consequently, users' credit cards will be automatically charged for the service after the trial period ends.

However, users can opt out from automatic membership by disabling the subscription renewal, thus preventing their credit cards from being charged the monthly fee.

Users can choose to pay the monthly fee if they wish to use Apple Music after the three-month trial period.

Follow the steps below to disable automatic subscription:

• Download and install iOS 8.4 on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
• Sign up for iTunes – navigate to Settings from within your device, head to iTunes and App Store to enter your Apple ID
• Select View Apple ID after creating an Apple ID account (if you don't have one) or enter your existing Apple ID
• Move to the Subscription tab and select Manage
• You will be directed to the exclusive Apple Music membership page, then navigate to the Automatic Renewal button at the bottom of the page
• By default, the Automatic Renewal button is set to "On", which leads users to compulsorily obtain a paid subscription after the three-month free trial period
• Switch Automatic Renewal to "Off" and select Turn-off Auto Renewal option

New enhancements brought along with iOS 8.4

Apple Music

• Become an Apple Music member to listen to millions of songs in the Apple Music catalog, or save them offline to playback later
• My Music: Play all iTunes purchases/songs from Apple Music, and save playlists in one place
• Completely redesigned music player that includes new features such as Recently Added, MiniPlayer, Up Next, and more

iBooks improvements and fixes

• Browse, listen and download audiobooks from inside iBooks
• Enjoy the all-new Now Playing feature, designed specifically for audiobooks
• Books that are Made for iBooks now work on iPhone in addition to iPad
• Find and pre-order books in a series from your library
• Improves accessibility of widgets, glossary and navigation of books made with iBooks Author
• New setting to turn off auto-night theme in your library
• Resolves an issue that may have prevented Hide Purchases from working
• Resolves an issue that may have prevented downloading books from iCloud

Other improvements and bug fixes

• Fixes an issue where receiving a specific series of Unicode characters causes device to reboot
• Fixes an issue that prevented GPS accessories from providing location data
• Fixes an issue where deleted Apple Watch apps could re-install.

[Source: PhoneArena]