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

The latest iTunes update makes this problem much more worrisome. If you bought an app in the UK and then moved to the US, the UK apps won't show up in your "purchased" items. I'm worried that when we hit iOS5 and everything relies on the server's impression of what your purchased items are, I won't be able to tell what apps have been updated on iOS or iTunes. 😟

As it is now, I can't an app unless I delete it in iTunes and then go to manually download it again. Sigh.

Any further progress on this problem? I have the same problem: I switched from the Turkish app store to the US app store, and now I can't update any of my apps and I can't re-download them... Which is rather upsetting since I spent a not inconsiderable amount of money on them. Is that money simply lost now?

Anyone know of a fix for apps no longer being associated with an account after you change your credit card/country?

Hey Bowgart,

I've been bounced around to tons of apple support about this issue, with no lasting result. The best I got was that one support feller told me to rebuy all the apps on a new account with the country that I want and that he'd refund me. He did, but as part of the refund process all future downloads are denied updates.

In the end, I just made a completely new account and re-purchased the apps I consider essential.

Wow, that sounds really... terrible. I don't understand why changing credit cards/countries completely separates purchased apps from the account. I thought that was the purpose of having an account with Apple.

I guess I'll still try banging my head against tech-support, see if they've come up with anything new. What's the best way to reach them? Email or phone?

Let me try to recall.. Er.. I think I filed an e-mail support ticket first. Got redirected to telephone support and bounced back and forth a couple times after that.

Do let us know if you have any greater success!

I was driven mad by this... I had bought hipstamatic in the US store but once my credit ran out, I couldn't buy the new lenses... Was fobbed off with scripted answers from iTunes support until I eventually bit the bullet and bought the app in the UK store... Luckily, it kept all the lenses I'd bought in the US store and I was able to buy more in the UK store. Phew. Not sure if that will work for evey app and yeah, I ended up buying the app again, but at least I don't have to buy all the lense packs again.

The problem that I'm having is that I've spent... not an inconsiderable amount of money in the app store. Music and movies aren't such a big deal, but not having access to software that I've paid for is! I can't afford to buy everything over again.

I don't understand the point of having a single Apple account if it's locked into a specific country. When I buy software from anywhere else is doesn't matter what country that I'm in or which credit card I'm using.

The reason why I spent money in the app store in the first place was because it seemed like a good centralized place to buy software, where I could get updates, re-access the files, etc. Now it looks like a giant hole in my bank account.

I have recently moved to Indian app store from UK app store. I dont have any problems so far exept the purchased app list in the app store on my iDevice is empty. However when I try to download the apps those I purchased when I was in UK, it ask for me to enter the password after that I get a message like "you have already paid for this item and hence this download is free"

The proper way to switch the country is as follows according to apple

Sign in to iTunes on iTunes software on your computer. Click on the arrowmark near your apple ID on the right top corner>select account>select change country> complete the address and payment details.

After that go back to the accounts section again and click on the purchase history. You will be able to see the purchase list that you have don when you were in UK. (however you will not be able to see this list on your iphone/ipad).

try downloading and updating, if its not possible, contact itunes support. Because in my case when I changed the payment details they had flagged my account for security purposes after which I was not able to make any purchases. Once I contacted them they unlocked it for me and everything was fine.

Huh, ok--that definitely sounds like good news. Better at least than what I've been getting from itunes support.

I've changed my country to the U.S. (from Turkey), and when I go into "Purchase History" under my itunes account, I can see all the receipts for everything. But when I go into "Purchased" quick-links section, that, like the Purchased section on my ipad, is completely empty.

The problem that I've having is that when I look at the itunes store in the U.S. it doesn't show "download" next to previously purchased items, just a price tag.

Are you saying that if I click on "buy app" that it won't charge me (that instead I'll get the dialogue "you have already paid for this item and hence this download is free")?

So I should just delete all the old app files and then click "buy app"--which will be free--on them again to re-download them? It seems crappy that they won't show up in my purchased history, which I liked, but it's certainly not the end of the world.

I moved country too and seem to have lost access to years worth of iTunes downloads and Apps, at least as far as my "purchases" list states. I have been able to continue updating apps okay, but I am disappointed at the lack of iCloud support for these past purchases. Hopefully Apple will come up with a solution. This seems like It could be a common problem considering the number of views this thread has gotten.