moved recently from South Africa to Bahrein in the Middle East. This is the message I get when I try to change payment method: “The payment card you entered is not valid in South Africa. Please provide a valid payment card for South Africa.”

Hi, I moved recently from South Africa to Bahrein in the Middle East. This is the message I get when

I try to change payment method: “The payment card you entered is not valid in South Africa. Please provide a valid payment card for South Africa.”

I tried different credit cards, my French one, the local credit card (Bahrein) of my husband. For

a reason, my credit card in South Africa is not working neither. I'm waiting for my local ID (CPR) to change my phone number to local one. I still have my old South African phone number. What shall I do? Do I need to wait my CPR to have new local phone number and new local credit card? For the moment

only my husband has CPR and local debit card. Please could you help? My icloud storage is full. We have family sharing with our 3 daughters and they don’t have space anymore. We are on 2TB subscription since a long time, and now I cannot pay anymore. And soon we won’t have access to emails, photos etc.

Thanks in advance for your help.

iPhone 12 mini

Posted on Oct 20, 2022 7:15 AM

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Posted on Oct 20, 2022 7:37 AM

You can only used cards from the region your Apple ID is set to.


If its set to South Africa, then you can only use South African cards.


You will need to change your Apple ID to Bahrein to be able to use cards form there.


Follow the steps here: link-> Change your Apple ID country or region - Apple Support


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moved recently from South Africa to Bahrein in the Middle East. This is the message I get when I try to change payment method: “The payment card you entered is not valid in South Africa. Please provide a valid payment card for South Africa.”

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