Apple has always offered student and faculty discounts on its products at lower prices. They have recently changed the system in some countries to introduce a qualification review mechanism, which requires identity verification through a third-party platform before continuing.
A few days ago, Apple introduced the UNiDAYS system in the United States, China and Taiwan. If you want to use the educational discount to buy products, you must first log in to the UNiDAYS authentication system before you can continue to buy. This mode itself is already in use in individual regions such as the UK. Under the new system, users cannot directly see the education discount price, and they need to pass the verification before they can see it.
After the launch of the new mechanism, although the process has become automated to prevent the abuse of discounts, it has also caused many problems, such as schools not being supported by UNiDAYS, or system failures, etc., resulting in the need for more manual processing of inquiries.
Apple later withdrew the UNiDAYS review requirement in the United States, reverting to no automatic eligibility review, but other regions remained unchanged. Of course, you still need to be eligible to use the relevant offers, but in the past, Apple would only conduct random checks, occasionally requiring customers to provide identification via email, rather than reviewing every order. Education concessions in Hong Kong remain unaffected for the time being.
Source: MacRumors
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