Apple Card adds Savings account from Goldman Sachs offering 4.15% rate

Apple Card users can now use the Savings account to grow their Daily Cash rewards.

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Apple Card was released back in 2019 as a way for Apple product users as a credit card that could take full advantage of Apple Pay and its suite of features. In a new update, Apple and partner Goldman Sachs are expanding what users can do with the Apple Card. There is now a Savings account that can be used to reap extra Daily Cash rewards and a relatively high APY.

Apple announced its new Savings account for Apple Card users in a Newsroom post today. The new Savings Account is backed by Goldman Sachs and boasts a 4.15 percent APY, which the company states is “10 times” higher than the national average.

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“Savings helps our users get even more value out of their favorite Apple Card benefit — Daily Cash — while providing them with an easy way to save money every day,” said Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s vice president of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet. “Our goal is to build tools that help users lead healthier financial lives, and building Savings into Apple Card in Wallet enables them to spend, send, and save Daily Cash directly and seamlessly — all from one place.”

Daily Cash will automatically be deposited in users’ accounts as earned. They can also opt to deposit money from a linked bank account or their Apple Card balance. The Wallet app also allows users to track the interest earned on their Savings account over time.

The new Savings accounts for Apple Card users are available in iOS 16.4. With such a large APY, it will be interesting to see how well the new feature performs with Apple Card users, and if it incentivizes more to sign up for one. For more on Apple and its family of products and services, stick with Shacknews.

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    April 17, 2023 9:40 AM

    Donovan Erskine posted a new article, Apple Card adds Savings account from Goldman Sachs offering 4.15% rate

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      April 17, 2023 8:17 AM

      Apple Savings Account

      So at 1pm eastern Apple is launching a savings account that yields 4.15%. You go to your Apple Card and click the ... in the upper right and click Daily Rewards and there will be an option to create it. It's held at Goldman Sachs Bank.

      You can fund it via bank transfers, $10k limit per transfer, $20k in rolling 7 day window, or mail them a check they will deposit. Max account size $250k.

      Solid option to easily park some $$ at a decent yield

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        April 17, 2023 8:24 AM

        banking here it’s pretty good but they have shit rates for saving, wish Apple expand their offerings to EU

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        April 17, 2023 8:24 AM

        apple has too much money it needs to become a bank...

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          April 17, 2023 8:26 AM

          they partner w Goldman Sachs to operate the bank, and Goldman has said they lose money on it so I think it's just a play at more iphone lockin

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            April 17, 2023 8:34 AM

            For some reason I highly doubt GS would do anything that is actually losing them money.

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              April 17, 2023 9:39 AM

              yah GS is not the "we'll do it to lose money" kind of outfit.

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              April 17, 2023 2:22 PM

              ya know I just read this crap online and maybe it's wrong but heres the thing that said it

              https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/13/apple-card-billion-dollars-plus-loss/

              Goldman Sachs submitted a regulatory filing today for its “Platform Solutions” group of businesses that includes Apple Card. The collection of consumer offerings from Goldman is on track for a loss of $4 billion since 2020 with Apple Card making up more than $1 billion of that.

              Reported by Bloomberg, the new performance details from Goldman’s Platform Solutions division paint a grim picture. In just the first nine months of 2022, the businesses including Apple Card saw a pretax loss of over $1.2 billion.

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                April 17, 2023 3:48 PM

                Retail banking is an incredibly difficult business to break into. There is a reason you don’t see many new consumer banks breaking into the top 25.

                GS has some very smart people running that group and they haven’t been able to get it to work. No doubt they could over time, but it’s not going to fit the parents earning profile.

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              April 17, 2023 4:57 PM

              I think there are advantages to operating as a bank in terms of access to Federal support in a post 2008 economy.

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            April 17, 2023 3:21 PM

            I find it highly dubious that they'd lose money on it.

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          April 17, 2023 4:57 PM

          Lots of giant companies that sell expensive things have their own bank broooo. My mini was financed through BMW Bank, got a better rate than local.

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        April 17, 2023 8:25 AM

        I wish the Apple Card and this shit would be in Canada

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        April 17, 2023 8:26 AM

        Wait it just launched! I see the option now cool

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        April 17, 2023 8:27 AM

        better than the 2.65% im getting at axos for my liquid emergency fund

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        April 17, 2023 8:28 AM

        Holy shit

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        April 17, 2023 8:32 AM

        Lol wtf. That’s pretty good. Not in Canada I assume.

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        April 17, 2023 8:43 AM

        Not bad. You can't add multiple depositors to go over $250k?

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        April 17, 2023 8:44 AM

        Ah, so this is only available to people who have the Apple credit card?

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        April 17, 2023 8:48 AM

        As occasional Apple Card user this seems like a no brainer? Can just throw some cash in and won’t lock it up like a 4 or 5% CD

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        April 17, 2023 9:16 AM

        How are they swinging this?

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          April 17, 2023 10:02 AM

          Its really easy and exactly how high interest online banks do it as well.

          They buy treasury bills that currently have a ~91 day avg rate of 4.98%

          They give you 4.15% and keep the rest.

          The APY can change any time as long is the entire apple card program is profitable.

          This is driving people to open apple cards that can charge you an interest rate of 15-26% if you carry a balance.

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            April 17, 2023 5:10 PM

            Huh, I'm guessing this is why my PayPal savings is giving me 4.15% right now as opposed to the 1~% my bank has.

      • kch legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        April 17, 2023 9:53 AM

        A couple of months ago I signed up for Marcus (also run by Goldman). High yield savings was 3.x% at the time but they just increased it to 3.90% a few days ago. https://www.marcus.com/us/en . No real limits on withdrawing.

        If you sign up through a referral link you get an extra 1% bonus for three months (plus the referrer gets it as well). So I'm getting 4.90% for like 6 months now. Not too bad.

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          April 17, 2023 9:00 PM

          You got one of those referral codes? Because I'm probably going to open an account there soon.

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        April 17, 2023 10:32 AM

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        April 17, 2023 11:01 AM

        So I don't need a minimum monthly balance on the card or anything? Ideally would just keep my Chase card for daily purchases but use this for savings.

      • gmd legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury mega
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        April 17, 2023 12:12 PM

        it's basically just Marcus, Marcus is at 3.9 but has no withdrawl and deposit limits

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        April 17, 2023 1:40 PM

        where are you getting the $250K limit from? or do you mean the FDIC covered limit?

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        April 17, 2023 2:02 PM

        Is the site getting hammered? I keep getting an error when applying for the card.

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        April 17, 2023 3:33 PM

        I am not seeing how you add to savings…wtf? I think I did everything right. clueless right now

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          April 17, 2023 4:06 PM

          Go to the Apple Card in wallet. Should be right above the latest transactions area.

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            April 17, 2023 4:17 PM

            I don’t have any transactions yet…maybe thats the problem.

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              April 17, 2023 4:46 PM

              Oh, you just opened the card today too? The savings account is separate. Did you open that as well.

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                April 17, 2023 5:11 PM

                No I guess not. Can I do that on the phone?

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                  April 17, 2023 5:12 PM

                  Yea. Hit the … icon in the top corner. Then hit Daily Cash. Should be an option in there.

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                    April 17, 2023 5:21 PM

                    That doesn’t do it! No option in there!

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                      April 17, 2023 5:40 PM

                      shoot I think I need to update the software…doh! Hopefully that works.

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        April 17, 2023 3:37 PM

        I’m not seeing the option, hmmm.

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        April 17, 2023 4:50 PM

        I tried to sign up. Looks like it's not active yet.

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          April 17, 2023 4:55 PM

          Nevermind, it just activated. I'm starting to transfer money.

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      April 17, 2023 10:22 AM

      I’m going to move most of my saving here. Rate is a bit higher which is nice. And this looks dead simple to use.

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        April 17, 2023 11:29 AM

        Yeah you can do better with work but this looks so turn key and easy

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          April 17, 2023 3:19 PM

          For sure. Great for an emergency fund you need to keep fairly liquid.

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        April 17, 2023 5:02 PM

        The Apple card is my daily, by far the easiest cash reward card. And now having it accrue directly to a savings account is pretty bomb.

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      April 17, 2023 10:43 AM

      my apple card has the number: 666 in it twice. 𖤐

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      April 17, 2023 2:11 PM

      Why do so many people use Apple Card’s? The benefits don’t seem that great compared to the prime visa and United cards that I use primarily

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        April 17, 2023 2:12 PM

        I basically only use mine for Apple stuff

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          April 17, 2023 2:13 PM

          Yea, I get that but it still seems strange to carry another line of credit for infrequent purchases. Im probably missing something.

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            April 17, 2023 2:16 PM

            Why's that? As long as I pay it off it doesn't seem to have hurt my credit score, or at least not enough that I noticed anything.

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            April 17, 2023 2:31 PM

            I mean I just checked and my score is 806 and I have like every card. I think it's not material

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              April 17, 2023 2:48 PM

              Thought the impact from additional inquiries + open accounts was more significant

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                April 17, 2023 4:57 PM

                i'm at 732 and every contributor Experian lists is begging me to open more accounts. i just have the one credit card. i guess i should have signed up for more long ago

                CONTRIBUTING FACTOR 1
                You Have Too Few Credit Accounts

                CONTRIBUTING FACTOR 2
                Too Many Of Your Open Bank Card Or Revolving Accounts Have A Balance

                CONTRIBUTING FACTOR 3
                The Balances On Your Accounts Are Too High Compared To Loan Limits

                CONTRIBUTING FACTOR 4
                Too Few Of Your Bank Card Or Other Revolving Accounts Have High Limits

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              April 17, 2023 3:24 PM

              Mines 813 and honestly the biggest ding is my credit usage being at 11% because I don’t have a lot of cards. If I had a few more I would always be under 10 and gain some points.

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            April 17, 2023 2:36 PM

            Aren't there only upsides to having more lines of credit (assuming you pay everything off and aren't paying fees on unused cards)?

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              April 17, 2023 2:42 PM

              Yep. Having lots of open lines of credit just makes it so when you use it the % use of your credit is much smaller which swings your credit rating around a lot less.

              If you have lots of infrequent use cards you just have the headache of managing them all and remembering to pay the ones off that you use infrequently. Plus whatever the risk of getting hacked on a random card is.

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              April 17, 2023 3:18 PM

              I have heard before that the concern can be that if you have a whole bunch of available credit, you could go out tomorrow and max all of them out and then not be able to pay anything else, which if I'm loaning you money for a car I might want to know about.

              However, I'm sure the reality is more nuanced than that.

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              April 17, 2023 4:52 PM

              average age of accounts (AAoA) does matter, it will take a dive when you open a new account. best thing is to have lots of lines of credit that you set up 10 years ago

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                April 17, 2023 5:15 PM

                I should've never paid off my BoA card for this exact reason. I had a 9.5% fixed APR that they'd been trying to change on me for a decade+ by offering some good promos that would also require me to change to a variable APR. I never took the bait and just kept paying down the card like normal, so pretty much right after I got it down to a zero balance they closed the account and it dropped me down to the high 600s for the first time since my 20s. I was able to get it back to the high 700s again eventually, but it was still a pain in the ass.

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            April 17, 2023 2:41 PM

            What does it matter? It is available credit for infrequent purchases that increase your credit score. What is there to get.

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            April 17, 2023 4:16 PM

            Define infrequent because I have between 5-10 transactions a month directly to Apple and at least one or two big ones every couple years.

            That 3% adds up pretty quickly and there are people way worse than me.

            If I hated Apple and refused to use their devices and services it would be a little less useful.

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          April 17, 2023 2:25 PM

          Same or accidentally when I use apple pay sometimes . great way to save 3%

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          April 17, 2023 2:52 PM

          Yeah, that's all I ever use mine for too.

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        April 17, 2023 3:21 PM

        I only really use it for Apple purchases. Nice for the 3% and 0% financing.

        Otherwise I use my AMEX for everything else.

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      April 17, 2023 3:02 PM

      me being an idiot, i've been using the same bank since my teenage years. my dad had opened an account for me at USBank. which like similar small community banks, only have up to 0.01% apy
      so i only i recently openened accounts with CIT and Sofi.
      after the SVB bungle, i'm gonna make sure i stay way under the FDIC insured cap.

      forewarning for people looking at CIT Bank, their website and mobile apps are horrible. don't expect much.
      Sofi's app is great.

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      April 17, 2023 5:22 PM

      So fifth highest interest rate available? (others pay 4.25 to 4.75%)

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      April 17, 2023 8:34 PM

      I opened the Savings account but I didn't get the prompt to transfer everything from Apple Cash to Savings. I see no way to manually transfer those funds. Somehow I have $0.98 in Savings though. Bug? Anyone else experience this?

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        April 17, 2023 8:40 PM

        I got an email confirmation confirming savings is set up, but still getting “set up” prompts in the app. I think they are just overloaded.

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