The Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional headset’s sticker value of $3,499 is nothing to sneeze at. However in the event you select to not pay the extra $24.99 per 30 days or $499 for 2 years of AppleCare Plus protection, make sure you deal with your new headset with child gloves. For customers and not using a protection plan, repairing a cracked cowl glass will value $799, in line with Apple’s up to date assist web page for the Imaginative and prescient Professional.

In case you are lined beneath AppleCare Plus, repairing both a cracked cowl glass or different unintentional harm will value $299. At these charges, paying for 2 years of AppleCare Plus and the decreased cowl glass restore price prices a mixed $798 — a whole $1 lower than the restore prices with out the service plan.

The phrases and circumstances (pdf) clarify the protection contains any “sudden and unintentional exterior occasion,” together with spilling liquid or dropping the gadget. For those who’re unusually clumsy, relaxation assured that an AppleCare Plus plan covers an “limitless” variety of occasions throughout its two-year period, so long as you give you the $299 every time.

Extra superior repairs could also be the place Apple’s prolonged protection is really required for the Imaginative and prescient Professional. Repairing different harm may value you as much as $2,399 — greater than two-thirds the price of a brand-new Imaginative and prescient Professional, whereas the prolonged protection is in place even when the harm requires changing the gadget. Apple wasn’t particular about what degree of hurt may require a full alternative, however your native fix-it place most likely doesn’t have a 23 million pixel Micro-OLED show mendacity round within the again.

The elevated availability of DIY and third-party restore companies have generally supplied a less expensive different to Apple’s official avenues for repairs of different units. Final yr, as right-to-repair legal guidelines handed in states like quite a lot of U.S. states like California, Minnesota, and New York, Apple dedicated to creating elements, instruments, and knowledge obtainable for DIY repairs of its units.

After the iPhone 15 launched final fall, Apple expanded its self-service restore choices to cowl the brand new telephones a couple of month later, and if it follows that for the Imaginative and prescient Professional, then DIY and third-party repairs could also be one other choice to maintain something that breaks. However for now, Imaginative and prescient Professional consumers can take into account tacking the price of AppleCare Plus onto an already excessive value — and be additional cautious roaming round of their new eyewear.