If you pay for iCloud+ storage on your iPhone, you now have Apple TV. You don’t need a new subscription, extra cost, or a sign-up form. It just gets added to your existing plan.
This is the first time Apple TV has been available in Kenya at all. Apple confirmed the change this month as part of a wider rollout covering 102 countries and regions.
Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, India, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Turkey and the UAE are on the same list. The US, UK and South Africa are not, so this is one of the rare cases where Kenya is getting something before bigger markets do.
What Changes and What Doesn’t
If you already pay for iCloud+, that’s the plan that gives you extra storage for photos, backups, Hide My Email and iCloud Private Relay, you don’t need to do anything. Apple TV and Apple Arcade are simply added on top.
The cheapest tier, 50GB, stays at $0.99 a month, roughly KES 128. Every tier from there up now includes both services, and you can share access with up to five other people through Family Sharing.
Apple Arcade is the company’s games catalogue: over 200 titles for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV 4K, with no ads and no in-app purchases.
If you were paying for Arcade on its own before this, that subscription gets cancelled automatically and you’re moved onto iCloud+ instead, with your saves and progress kept intact. Nobody in Kenya was paying for standalone Apple TV before this, since Apple never sold it here separately.
To check if it has landed on your account, open Settings, tap your name, go to Subscriptions, then iCloud+. If Apple TV and Apple Arcade show up there, you’re already covered. Since the rollout date varies by country, it might not show immediately even if you’re reading this today.
One thing to note is that the free Apple TV access only covers Apple’s own shows and films. It doesn’t include paid channels or movie rentals inside the same app.
Apple TV vs. Competing Streaming Services in Kenya
Kenya already has Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, each running $8 to $15 a month on their own.
Apple TV coming bundled into a $0.99 storage plan changes the math completely. You’re not paying for another separate streaming service, it’s already sitting inside something you likely have.
If that wasn’t enough, Apple TV had its biggest year yet at the Emmys in 2026, taking home 28 awards total, more than any other studio, including HBO Max and Netflix.
Its comedy Widow’s Bay won 14 Emmys on its own, the most any comedy series has ever won in a single year. Pluribus picked up six wins, and Margo’s Got Money Troubles and Palm Royale took three each.
The catalogue also includes Severance, Dark Matter, Ted Lasso, Slow Horses, Silo, Shrinking, F1 (the Brad Pitt film), and CODA, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2021.
Apple TV launched globally in November 2019 at $4.99 a month and has picked up more than 900 awards for its original shows and films since then. Getting that catalogue for free as part of a dollar storage plan is a massively good deal, not a downgrade dressed up as one.
A Cheaper Apple Music Deal
Apple is also throwing in Apple Music Select, a set of ad-free radio stations, as part of the same iCloud+ update.
It’s not on-demand listening, you can’t pick specific songs, but if you want the full Apple Music app with playback control, being on iCloud+ now gets you a discount: $2.79 a month for an individual plan instead of the regular price, or $4.49 for a family plan.
That discount only applies if both subscriptions are billed through the same Apple Account.
Apple One, the bundle that combines iCloud+, Music, TV and Arcade for around $20 a month, is still not sold in Kenya. With Apple TV and Arcade now folded into the much cheaper iCloud+ plan, there isn’t much reason to want it anyway.
