How to access NEW Peacock Apple TV subscription

The easiest way to link to an already existing Peacock account is as follows:

1. Go to the "Your Subscription is Confirmed" email that you received from apple
2. Scroll to the bottom and select "Set up your new bundle services"
3. A new window will open and it will show you the Apple TV option and Peacock Option
4. Select Peacock option and "Activate Account"
5. You will then be linked to your previous Peacock Profile that likely shares the same email as your Apple ID
6. In the "Plans & Upgrades" section, on your Peacock Account, you will see the new Apple & Peacock Bundle plan linked along with your canceled Peacock Subscription- as shown below.

I hope this helps!

I ran into this same problem- I already had a peacock account with an expired subscription, and could not get the new subscription linked. I downloaded the peacock app on my phone and logged into my account. Then, in the App Store, go to subscriptions, click on your bundled benefit, then click open for the peacock app. It then linked the bundle benefit to my peacock account and I was able to login on my tv.

I just finished chat with both Apple support and Peacock. Apple was unable to do much beyond confirming my subscription was active. Suggested I work with Peacock, so I chatted with a helpful person and here is the instructions I was given.

• 6:07 PM
• https://www.peacocktv.com/bundle/apple-tv
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• Please visit the above link to get the Apple TV Bundle.
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• Sakshi
• ok
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• 6:08 PM
• Please keep me updated
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• what would you like me to do? I subscribed to the Peacock Premium Plus last night through Apple for $11
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• 6:09 PM
• When your direct-billed Peacock subscription is next set to auto-renew on 02/25/2026, Apple will instead become the biller for your Apple TV and Peacock Premium Plus bundle and you will have access to Premium Plus content through this bundle.
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• 6:11 PM
• In the meantime, you can apply this voucher (XXXXXXXXXXXX) to your account for immediate access to Premium Plus content.
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• You can redeem your offer directly in your account at the following link: https://www.peacocktv.com/account/plans
• Code for Premium = XXXXXXXXXXXXX
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• 1. log in to your Peacock account on a web browser
• 2. On the 'Plans and Payment' tab, enter the promotional code in the "Have a Promotional Code" box and hit 'Apply'
• 3. You will be directed to enter your billing information and will see the message stating 'Voucher promotion has been successfully applied
• 4. Once the billing information is submitted, you will be able to watch Peacock Premium.
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• Sakshi
• are you going to stay with me as I do this?
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• Yes, I will be on standby.
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• Sakshi
• 6:12 PM
• and I can created a new Peacock account
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• Please try to redeem the offer under this xxx.me.com email address.
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• Sakshi
• Ok
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• Please keep me updated.
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• Sakshi
• 6:13 PM
• Ok, all that seemed like just purchasing (with your voucher, thank you) a new plan
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• 6:16 PM
• this will recognize the $11 apple purchased plan Feb 25
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• Yes, you are correct.

We cyber hugged it out and thanked each other.

Everything works, Not charged through Peacock. Will check on the account 2/25/2026 to insure all is well.

Hope this helps

So here’s what worked for me. I was already a Peacock subscriber so I had to cancel my subscription and let it expire which it did today. (10/27) I wasn’t able to log into my old account using my previous email address (it said my account was frozen) so I had to create another account using a different email. Once I set that up it allowed me to log in and I can see my plan now being billed through Apple.. ridiculous I know, but it worked.

yeah..I literally unsubscribed and resubscribed within my iCloud subscriptions settings within like 1 minute. I was in the same spot as you…when I unsubscribed it didn’t actually expire for another 20 days or something. It all worked fine to resubscribe even while it was still “active” after cancelling. I think it was simply the process of resubscribing that must of caused some backend process to connect the accounts.

Ok, so I entered my email in the box above, hit enter, and then selected "I forgot my password".

This is crazy but it worked... sort of.

I changed my password with Peacock, then logged in and activated my account.

I can watch Peacock now via the Peacock app on my laptop, but not via AppleTV.

I tried all the things here and none worked. But...I had the idea that maybe..just maybe...the issue was that, because I already had a subscription when I subscribed using the bundle, maybe peacock ignored something at that time. So..just now I tried unsubscribing in my apple subscription management and then instantly resubscribing. And...the next time I accessed the peacock app everything was working!

I have found the problem and have a workaround that will work for some and not for others.

if you changed your Apple ID and had subscribed to peacock through Apple anytime in peacocks existence, whatever that email was for your Apple ID is where the subscription is trying to be sent to. I logged into my old email and password that I would have used when I first got peacock billed through Apple, and did this through the peacock app on my Apple TV 4K (I’m assuming this works for the ios app) and it worked. It freakin worked. My account now shows it’s being billed by Apple like it was whenever peacock launched all those years ago lol. I had to have support change my account to my current email and after that I was all set. What a mess. This isn’t going to work if you deleted that peacock account though, or if you can’t remember your password and no longer have access to that email. But that’s the cause, and a temp workaround. Thank Reddit.

Try resubscribing from your apple subscription management page in your iCloud account settings (as shown in the image). Unsubscribing and then resubscribing here is what kicked things and made it all work for me.

I was getting the free Peacock via Xfinity rewards. I finally had to just call them to cancel that. They said it will be cancelled tomorrow. Currently the Peacock app is saying I cannot use my Apple One as Xfinity is paying. Account cross promotions are always a mess.

blaqdaddy wrote:

It has not prompted me to.

User StellaCal23 wrote a few months ago that she got it working by following the link Set up your new bundle services in the subscription confirmation email. Does that link appear in your confirmation email too?

Resolved! I had the same problem and spent hours on the phone between Apple and Peacock. I finally reached someone at Apple that took the time to actually look into the problem. I had to install the Apple 26.1 update on my phone, then when I went back into Apple TV on my phone and scrolled down, there was an option to add Peacock to my Apple One subscription for $11.

Just spent hours trying to figure his out. Finally logged into my Apple account on my laptop and saw my secondary email on there, (Which i have previously used on a peacock account). logged into that Peacock account and Boom. theres my active subscription.

-Make sure to check if theres any other emails you have used on your apple account as Apple could use secondary emails to activate the peacock account instead of your primary Apple ID.

I was the same...this worked for me (and a few other folks that were in the same spot) - How to access NEW Peacock Apple TV subscr… - Apple Community

I cancelled the subscription in the App Store and immediately reinstated it, and viola, it worked. I just wasted 72 hours trying to link my apple one subscription to the app, so frustrating.