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id: PUB-2
title: Hosting Plans
group: Publishing
summary: What a plan buys, what it costs, how it renews, and what happens when it ends
keywords: [hosting plan, subscription, price, monthly, annual, hours, renew, cancel, upgrade, replace, over plan limit, expired, 30 days, restore purchases, end card]
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A Hosting Plan keeps your films on the web. Recording, exporting, watching, following and sharing nearby are free without one.

## The plans

A plan is sized by how many hours of video you have on the web at once. Every film you have up counts.

- **1 hour:** $0.99 a month, or $9.99 a year.
- **5 hours:** $2.99 a month, or $29.99 a year.
- **20 hours:** $4.99 a month, or $49.99 a year.

These are U.S. prices. The card shows Apple's price in your currency. A plan also removes the end card from your exports and the mark from your prints.

## Choosing one

Tap **Upload** on a film with no plan and **Hosting Plans** comes up. You can also go to Settings, then **Manage subscription**, then **Choose a plan** or **Change plan**.

The film's length is checked against your plan before anything is sent, and the server checks again. Nothing goes up that does not fit.

## Renewal and billing

Apple bills you. Plans renew automatically each month or year until you cancel in the iOS Settings app, under Subscriptions. **Cancel or change billing** in Settings opens Apple's page. **Restore purchases** brings a plan back after a reinstall, and moves it to this device's key if your key has changed, as it does after you erase. Your films stay on the old key.

## Over plan limit

If a film does not fit, tap **Upgrade** for a bigger plan, or **Replace** to pick older films to take down. A smaller plan that cannot hold what you have up stays off until you make room. Taking a film down never touches your phone.

## When a plan ends

A plan ends when it lapses, or when you move to a smaller one. If you have more on the web than the plan holds:

- Your films stay up for 30 days, and home shows the date.
- After that the oldest films expire, one at a time, until the rest fit.
- An expired film is off the web, and its link stops working. It is not deleted: its pieces are kept.
- A plan that holds your films brings them back at the same links, oldest first.
- A film whose project is no longer on your phone is your last copy. It comes off the web in its turn, its file is kept, and a plan with room brings it back.

The app's card says your films *will be deleted from the web* on that date. What happens on that date is that they expire. Camcorder does not delete expired films automatically. Deleting one is a decision a person makes, film by film.

Your clips stay on your phone either way.