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Account Not In This Store (iOS6)

Ever since I updated to iOS6, whenever I updated or downloaded a new app from the App Store, a message appears saying:


"Account Not In This Store

Your account is not valid for use in the Canadian (sometimes it says Indian, Australian, Chinese, French (everything changes to French in the app), Kuwaiti, and more) store. You must switch to the U.S. store before purchasing."


I made some research online and asked a few of my friends with the same problem. All they did was sign out of iTunes from settings>iTunes & App Stores or from the App Store itself and signed back in. It worked for many of them but not with my iPhone 4 nor with my iPad 2. It really does get on my nerves to always sign out and back in to the App Store as it sometimes works and allows me to update and download or most of the time it doesnt.


When viewing my Apple ID account on my iPhone (after entering the password) it either views my account or says:


"This Apple ID is only valid for purchases in the U.S. iTunes Store. You will be switched to that Store. Try your purchase again."

So I press on OK then either switches me to the App Store app of its choice, or says "Cannot connect to iTunes Store".


I tried restoring iOS6 hoping it was a bad installation, but i still have the same problem.


Can anyone help me and point me to the right direction please?


Regards,

Tariq

iPhone 4, iOS 6

Posted on Oct 4, 2012 4:28 AM

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73 replies

Feb 23, 2013 4:10 AM in response to Hunaidi

T Yahiaoui

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Re: Account Not In This Store (iOS6)

Oct 5, 2012 10:14 PM (in response to Hunaidi)


@ Hunaidi


I have suggested the following steps to somebody else and it seems to have worked for a number of people including myself:


- go into 'Settings'

- go into 'iTunes & App Stores' (scroll down until you reach it)

- click on 'Apple ID:....' (at the top)

- click on 'View Apple ID' (it'll ask you to key in your Apple ID password)

- enter your Apple ID password

- leave the 'Settings' menu


Hope this works for you.


T





IF YOU FOLLOW THESE STEPS IT SHOULD WORK......at least it did for me


Thanks to T Yahiaoui

Feb 23, 2013 7:16 AM in response to Hunaidi

I've had the same problem in my iPad and the Settings > iTunes & AppStore and the AppStore > Feature tab thing didn't work either. I was stuck in the us store and wanted to use my brazilian account, so i signed out from the ipad Settings, and searched for an app from the br appstore in Safari. When i tried to download it, Safari redirected my request to the AppStore application, I had, of course, to log in to proceed on installing the app, and it worked perfectly!

hope it helps!

Feb 26, 2013 9:28 AM in response to Hunaidi

Hi, for those saying those methods didnt solve your problem, you may try this.


Im living in Indonesia, but want to change App Store to Singapore region because i need google maps on my iphone which isnt available on Indonesia region app store, so this is what i have done:

Tried changing iTunes account info on my iPhone 5 (6.1.2), it couldnt be done even with those methods unless you did changing from your mac.

So,


First i changed itunes account information from my mac, and tried downloading Google maps.

It will ask to enter 3 secret question and answer, but it says unavailable in the end, ignore it.

Now you should see iTunes downloading Google Maps, then i sync my iPhone with my mac. Google Map appeared on my iPhone. I went to Settings>iTunes and app store> view Apple ID> Sign out> Sign in.

Delete an app (Hay Day) that i have downloaded through Indonesia region app store, and downloaded it back from Singapore app store. Mission accomplished. This case has been driving me crazy for whole day!


Good luck!

Account Not In This Store (iOS6)

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