This is the best reason to set up Apple Family Sharing.

There are many advantages to setting up an Apple family share, ranging from location tracking to shared calendars and photos. But it is probably the most compelling reason to set it up to reduce the cost of an Apple Music subscription.

You can get Apple Music for $2.84 per month.

There is a clear reason to configure an Apple family share, and that is Apple Music. It is probably the best subscription that can be shared with a family, giving you unlimited access to over 100 million songs. If you are a Spotify user, there are many reasons why the transition should not be so difficult.

An individual Apple Music subscription currently costs $10.99 per month, and this price is perfectly reasonable for almost total access to all the music you might need without ads. This is particularly true when you consider that the cost of the subscription is not really different from what it would have been to pay for a single album a few years ago.

With the family share, Apple Music becomes truly a deal. A Family Apple Music subscription costs $16.99 per month, but this can be shared with up to five other people. If you have six people who want access to Apple Music, you can all contribute and simply pay $2.84 per month each. This is cheaper than the price of three individual songs in the iTunes store for unlimited access to millions of songs when you want.

Apple Music also works smoothly with your Apple devices. No need to search on Spotify to find the music you want to listen to. You can ask Siri to play any song, album, artist, or playlist you want, and this will happen without having to lift a finger.

The costs are shared but the libraries are separate

The idea of sharing your Apple Music account with five other people may not seem very appealing. Will you not degrade your recommendations when Grandma constantly listens to Michael Bublé albums on your shared subscription?

The short answer is no. With a family share, each member has their own individual Apple Music library that is kept separate from the others. This means that all your listening history and recommendations are kept separate.

Shared between six people, this subscription costs simply $4.33 per person per month. In other words, you indeed get App Store Music for half price, and TV+ and Arcade offered for free, making Apple One a true money-saver.

If you want to go further, the Apple One Premier subscription costs $37.95 per month. This gives you access to Apple Music, TV+, and Arcade, but also Fitness+ and News+. The iCloud storage limit is also increased to 2 To.

This subscription costs $6.33 per person. In other words, it remains cheaper than a single individual subscription to Apple Music and gives you four additional Apple subscriptions. Whether you think it's justifiable for News+ and Fitness+ is up to your opinion.

Apple Music is probably the best of Apple's subscriptions, and with a family share, you can get it for less than three dollars per month. As long as you can find five people with similar tastes in mind equipped with Apple devices that you can trust to pay their part, this is not a choice.