I moved country, changed iTunes stores and now my Apps can't be updated!?

Fatma alyaarubi wrote:

HHHHHElpppp!!!!!!!!!'n

Icant change my country or region when I tray it's stuking but before it was easy help me

Contact Apple's iTunes Support they'll restore it for you.

PS: Click the link on the word “iTunes Support”.

Yeah, as previous post stated, I confirm that even if the app has a price assigned, when you actually purchase it, you re told it is a free update.

Hi there

I guess the best way to normalise things is by doing this

Just visit the apple website

Then login with your apple id

Change the country or region there

As i did changed from INDIA to U.S

and everything seemed working fine

As i would like to mention what all issue i was facing earlier

- sync issue as the us purchased apps were paid in my region hence were not been able to install in my idevice

- the store i was using was US store hence te id was tagged with not supported region id

- i was missing all the free apps in US REGION but as i changed the region information everything started showing up

NOTE: this region changing can also be performed through itunes by viewing id option

Best of luck

I had this issue too, moving from US to NZ... My solution to this was to simply keep the original account (my wife's) and open a new Apple ID as my own account.

Now I can simply switch from my wife's account (account A) to my own (account B) and back in the itunes login tab (or on the ipad store login) since we maintain accounts, the apps/music etc show up in each account's history, and we purchase new apps in the country (store) we wish to pay for them from.

Although we maintain the US address and Credit Card (account A), we use the local account (B) to buy most things as it where our income is now based, and most people would be fine just switching accounts and leaving their 'old' account as is unless they needed to restore apps?

the light pain of switching stores to update apps is clearly offset by not having to 'cross fingers' every time you "repurchase" an app!

FYI: you're only allowed a maximum of 5 apple accounts on any one device, so unless you move countries five times (⚠) you should be fine?

Good luck with iTunes Match accounts though!

So, what do you mean by the iTunes login tab? On the Mac, I seem to need to log out, then log in but typing in my hard-to-guess password again whenever switching between accounts. Or am I missing some easy way to switch?

Sorry, been hectically busy this last week!

Yes, I log out and relogin as the other account...

For reference, hard to guess passwords don't need to be hard to enter?

Like:

"I lov3 Apple but I HATE passwords!!"

or

"My eldest son's n4me is Joe Bloggs"

Thus, no-one who didn't know the IDEA behind your password would ever guess it, but so easy for you to type and remember yourself 🙂

The key is to just an occasional letter/number substitution and to remember correct punctuation (or invert it!)

Apple needs to find a solution to this completely unreasonable situation. If I buy a DVD or CD, I can download it, lend it out and carry it will me 'where ever' I go. Digital should be superior, not inferior.

(Thanks for the post)

Apple needs to find a solution to this completely unreasonable situation. If I buy a DVD or CD, I can download it, lend it out and carry it will me 'where ever' I go. Digital should be superior, not inferior. I should be able to use any credit card from any country also, just as I would for amazon, the the thousand of other 'online' stores. I agree Apple is becoming arrogant.

(Thanks for the post)

Joy. wrote:

I should be able to use any credit card from any country also, just as I would for amazon,

and you reporting these purchases to your governemnt and are paying import duties & taxes on those amazon purchases, correct?

-> http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201119100

-> http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=14309551

As posted earlier:

The new iTunes version fixes this problem!

From iTunes I can now update apps bought in other country's stores !!!

Have been waiting for this to be fixed for a long time...

iTunes 11.0.4.4

I have only one Apple account, and moved to a different country with it. As posted above, I can now update all apps without any hassle straight from the new iTunes.

Regards,

Radix__ wrote:

As posted earlier:

The new iTunes version fixes this problem!

...

iTunes 11.0.4.4

iTunes is now at 11.1..3.

Which version fixed it?

I used to need to update all apps from the old country only through my iPhone/iPad too. iTunes would tell me there were updates but I couldn't actually download them through iTunes.

However as mentioned above, this has been fixed with an iTunes update and now I only use iTunes for updating my apps, and have never had any issues anymore with updating apps. It doesn't matter in which country they were bought, they now all update through iTunes.

The issues disappeared with iTunes 11.0.4.4 and have been gone since.

Hello, i'm planning to move to Australia next year and I have an iphone with plenty of apps purchased in Italian App Store. Is it easy to change the store to Australian one and move all the purchases there or i might have some problems with updates?

EDIT: never mind, i've just read the above posts. Thanks