Apple has announced that it’s ending iTunes (and it’s an excellent advance on the company’s part). Despite receiving frequent updates, iTunes has become a clunky, crowded, and confusing app that isn’t very friendly to long-term users or newcomers.

Apple’s solution is straightforward and doubtless overdue. The corporation is ending the old iTunes service on Mac, and instead, creating several streamlined apps dedicated to specific sorts of content. In other words, Apple will have a Music app, a TV app, and doubtless an Arcade app, instead of having all types of content floating around iTunes. While this might involve a couple of more downloads in upcoming updates, it should improve usability.

However, if you’ve had iTunes for a short time, you'll even have a couple of iTunes gift cards floating around – they’re an especially popular gift when people aren’t sure exactly what to offer you. And now the large question, what do you have to do with those gift cards? Are you able to still redeem them?

Make Payments for iCloud, Apple Music, and More

You can still buy music from iTunes, and every one of your iTunes music should easily carry over to the new Apple Music app. Apple won’t let your songs float away into the ether.

In the meantime (and albeit you don’t prefer to use Apple’s Music app) there are still many things that you simply can spend your balance on.

Use your iTunes/Apple ID balance to buy various subscriptions including everything from HBO to Apple’s TV streaming service, also as payments for your extra iCloud storage.

You can also buy other apps you're curious about, or maybe eBooks. With all of those choices, you'll prefer to put your balance toward whatever is vital to you!

Check Your Apple ID Balance

There is no super special iTunes account where iTunes gift card money goes and may only be spent on iTunes things. Instead, the cash from an iTunes card goes to your general Apple ID balance.

1. Once you've redeemed your card, sign in to your Apple ID to see your balance.
2. See what proportion is in your account, and confirm that the quantity from your card is successfully deposited.
3. If it's like something isn’t working, countercheck that you’re within the right account and get in touch with Apple support if necessary.

Redeem Your Card

First, redeem any older iTunes cards that you simply have. There’s no new expiration date for iTunes gift cards, and Apple will honor them for the foreseeable future.

iTunes gifts don’t normally have expiration dates, so you ought to be ready to use even particularly old cards. There’s nothing to stress about.

In fact (and we’ll get to the present during a bit) most Apple gift cards sold lately aren’t even iTunes cards anymore. However, you'll still have an old iTunes card rattling around. If so, your first move should be to redeem it!

You can redeem from any computer and therefore the process is easy – especially if you employ a mobile device, which may usually just scan your redemption code and automatically enter it. To convert that card into some digital currency before you ditch it.