My Apple Music suddenly changed from an Australian store to an American one and I can’t listen to any music or download any. My account says australia but when I try and listen it says “you have to have the Australian Apple Music store to listen to this or download this”
Hello,
This sounds like a region setting issue and not an actual change in country. This can sometimes happen if you find a link on the web that points to an app or a media item in another country's iTunes Store. Here's how you can correct this:
Sign out of the iTunes Store [ https://support.apple.com/HT203983 ] and sign in again to get the iTunes Store region to match the region to which your Apple ID country is set, as described in this post: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250611340?answerId=251184940022#251184940022
1. Go to: Settings > Account > Media & Purchases > View Account > Country/Region
2. Make sure it is set to your normal country.
3. In the "Media & Purchases" menu, sign out and then sign in again.
The above is a simplified version of that in the support document 'Change your Apple ID country or region' ( https://support.apple.com/HT201389 ) except you shouldn't need to do the extra steps involved when you have done a true country change.
Hello,
This sounds like a region setting issue and not an actual change in country. This can sometimes happen if you find a link on the web that points to an app or a media item in another country's iTunes Store. Here's how you can correct this:
Sign out of the iTunes Store [ https://support.apple.com/HT203983 ] and sign in again to get the iTunes Store region to match the region to which your Apple ID country is set, as described in this post: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250611340?answerId=251184940022#251184940022
1. Go to: Settings > Account > Media & Purchases > View Account > Country/Region
2. Make sure it is set to your normal country.
3. In the "Media & Purchases" menu, sign out and then sign in again.
The above is a simplified version of that in the support document 'Change your Apple ID country or region' ( https://support.apple.com/HT201389 ) except you shouldn't need to do the extra steps involved when you have done a true country change.
Thanks for the response - it forced me to think through the problem. I couldn’t check my region in iPadOS - it immediately makes you cancel all of your subscriptions. As I have a family Mac account, I didn’t want to get into that. When I checked on my desktop, everything in terms of ID country appeared to be fine and this is the computer I wanted to sync with. I hit the sync button again and noticed that a few of my thousands of songs had updated on the iPad. 15 syncs later, I think I have the songs working and just waiting for the skins to finish up. So I think it may have been due to too many sync error messages. I had hundreds, if not thousands - because any song in Apple Music format would not transfer to my iPod Pro - generates an error message! Even weirder! I just got an new iPhone 12 and it synced to my desktop no problems at all.
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