Saeid Sakkaki
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2024/12/11

Learn how to activate, use and install Apple Arcade games

Arcade is one of the useful and interesting Apple services announced in 2020. It's a pretty good collection of Apple exclusive games. Apple Arcade games can be installed on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and Vision Pro. In this post we'll explain how to activate and use Apple Arcade to install its games and enjoy playing exclusive titles of Apple. Keep reading...

Access to Apple Arcade: Where's the Apple Arcade?

To access the Apple Arcade in iPhone and iPad and see its games you just have to open the App Store and go to the Arcade tab. It's placed at the bottom of the screen of the App Store.

To access the Apple Arcade in Mac, you can open the App Store and select Arcade from the left sidebar.

Apple Arcade In Apple TV can be find as easy as opening the shortcut menu and selecting the Arcade icon.

To open Apple Arcade in Vision Pro just go to the App Store from the Apps menu and select the second item from the left side panel (which shows Apple Arcade icon).

Trying Apple Arcade games in Vision Pro gives you a unique and interesting experience. Despite the high price of Apple Vision Pro, we recommend you to try Apple Arcade exclusive games in Vision Pro even once. Currently more than 100 games out of almost 250 games in Apple Arcade support AR in Vision Pro. So you can play them with taste of Augmented Reality of Apple Vision Pro. Of course you can play the rest of Apple Arcade games __that doesn't support AR__ in the classic manner. Here's two screenshot from Apple Vision Pro's AR gaming experience:


How to download games from Apple Arcade?

To download Apple Arcade games you have to subscribe to Apple Arcade. This can be done if you buy Apple One Premier subscription from Apple98. It's a very easy procedure. After activating Apple Arcade subscription, you can go to Arcade and find your desired game to bring up its details page. Here you can tap "Get" button to start downloading the game. Scroll down to see the game details like screenshots, descriptions, publisher, genre, age rating, and users' reviews. Options like Share, etc. will be available by opening the 3-dots menu (...).

How to play Arcade games between multiple Apple devices?

You can continue playing Arcade games between your devices. E.g. you can start a game on your iPhone and level-up on iPad, then continue on your Mac, etc. To use this incredible feature of Arcade you must have both Apple Arcade and iCloud+ subscriptions activated. Activating iCloud+ will also be done when you purchase Apple One from Apple98. So if you buy Apple One Premier you can easily cross-play your Arcade games between your Apple devices. Just login to the same Apple ID as your first device in the other ones. Now you can see all your Apple Arcade games are ready on your new device and you can continue playing them just from where you left them off!


Summary

Apple Arcade is a valuable subscription that's created to entertain you. This subscription lets you access to more than 250 games that can be played exclusively on Apple devices with ability to play across multiple devices. Its only prerequisite is an Apple Arcade subscription. The best and cheapest way to activate Apple Arcade is to buy Apple One Premier subscription. If you don't know what's Apple One, you can take a look at our posts in Apple98 blog. Then you can better decide to buy Apple One from Apple 98 or not.

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