How to maintain Family Sharing on Apple ID when changing Countries

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Lala_sun Author

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How to maintain Family Sharing on Apple ID when changing Countries

hi,

i just moved, my family still lives in Germany and I moved to Switzerland,

So I have lots of questions

we still want to be a family and see where we are and share apps

but as I no longer have a German credit card I can’t purchase anything in the App Store or submit an apple care and other things.

I still have a very old Apple ID that I don’t really use, I could change region on that one, use it as my Swiss account to purchase things on the App Store and keep the Germany Apple ID to communicate with my family, would that work?

because if I change the country from my Apple ID I lose the family I have in Germany, is there any why around that?

and as I am the organiser of the family in Germany, it doesn’t work anymore as I have no German credit card, so how do we change the organiser?

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Posted on Mar 26, 2024 3:04 AM

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turingtest2

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Mar 26, 2024 7:49 AM in response to Lala_sun

Apple Family Sharing groups must all use the same national store. You will also find that updating apps that you already have will be complicated if you have signed into a different countries store. There is no way to change the organizer of a group, other than to disband the group and start over.

See also Authorization vs. association - Apple Community for reasons why building a second account might not be a good move.

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