Unable to use iTunes store, popup This AppleID has not been used in the iTunes stores is going nowhere

I could not get out this loop using your method. Maybe just me but the review AppleId just doesn't do anything.

I had to create another id, this one in France to be able to use this iPhone.

Now, when you say "Apple asking for a payment method is universal as far as I know" I can report that it is not. The locals were right. There is a "none" menu item I don't remember spotting before in the payment method section. I would be curious to know if it exists. Maybe that's what you did if you never entered a credit card number as you said. Since the loop prevented me from any review, hard for me to tell. Anyway, I could select it and go and download free apps from the store after going to the same first time popup and not going into that crazy loop. Note that when reviewing the profile, there is an error in red in the payment method saying that the system was unable to retrieve this data, or some like that.

Thank you Limmos for your answer.

I read the document you pointed me to and I think I start to understand some of the problem.

On the problem itself, there has been some variations as I was trying to understand but I am now getting the popup with the cancel or review options. When choosing review, another one ask me to login. Upon entering my password, I go straight back to the same first popup cancel or review. I could loop for ever in there, no explanation, nothing. Anywhere else in the software industry I lived 40 years in, it’s called a endless loop or simply a bug. They should at least say the ApplId configuration is rejected and specifically why, give the user a chance to understand instead of guessing and correct the issue.

Now, on the reason why my AppleId would be rejected by iTunes Store, let me say first that both my credit card or my PayPal in there are perfectly valid and founded.

The only reason I could see for their rejection, if all this is true, is that they are US credit card and PayPal account and the phone is not,. I find that rather far fetch and I kinda hope there is something else.

Maybe the fact that my AppleId is also US based and the phone is not could also be an issue now that I think of it ???

Worse, in the country where the phone was bought, Martinique is part of France, the court made illegal for Apple and others to ask for credit card to access free stuff if locals are to be trusted and iTunes Store is apparently not requesting it according to them. They just can’t buy anything until they do add it but are allowed to download free stuff.

So the must enter a credit card in the document should not even apply here according to iPhone users down here.

I have lived my retirement sailing the Caribbean for six years on my good old boat calling people back home on WhattsApp and watching SNL and stuff on an Android from Martinique, same kind of deal, just wanted to keep on doing it on a better phone, can’t do that on an iPhone ?