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Hunaidi Author

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3 points

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

73 replies

Mar 4, 2013 10:37 PM in response to T Yahiaoui

@Yahiaoui:

i faced the same issue for "Hike" but no other app.since the day i updated to iOS 6.1.2,

I didnt know viewing your apple ID with solve the issue FUNNY !!!

## THNKS DEAR##

NEXUN

Level 1

0 points

Mar 9, 2013 3:44 AM in response to T Yahiaoui

Thank you T!, Wonderful, worked for me like a charm!.

Mar 10, 2013 5:47 AM in response to Hunaidi

I live in London, UK and have not changed anything - credit card and address all registered here, settings give me as in UK. But I started getting the error message that I could not update as I was using US rather than UK store (this only applied to iBooks updates, all others going through fine). Tried several things, including re-entering my payment details, to no effect. Then I just changed my country from UK to UK (i.e. no real change) in settings, and it seems OK now, iBooks update just went through without any more error messages.

Mar 11, 2013 11:30 PM in response to T Yahiaoui

thanks to u! i manage to unlocked mine too!

Regards,

Grace

Mar 25, 2013 8:51 PM in response to T Yahiaoui

This works mate, thanks

Ocean20

Level 6

13,727 points

Mar 25, 2013 9:31 PM in response to Hunaidi

I guess even if you have a US address and a US credit card and have set up a US apple ID, if you log in from Kuwait the itunes store must detect you IP address and realise that you are not in the US and that could be the problem

Mar 26, 2013 1:24 AM in response to Hunaidi

what worked for me - just go (on your device only) on iTunes/ app store settings etc, don't even change the default country given for the store (in my case it was India and I kept it intact), click on viewing your payment details and instead of pressing cancel and going back to the page, you click on done - it will then ask you to enter the CVV no. etc (since it doesn't keep stored on the page), enter that and it will validate your account again (no matter how many times it did before, but it is essential) and will be costing you around 1 $ for validation, money spent! Now go and purchase whatever you want from the store, it clearly works!

It seems to be a big bug instead of Apple's deliberate attempt to rip off money, but that is the way it is and this solution is 100 % working for me.

Moreover, I found that this problem occurs only after either you update your phone with a new OS version, or even when you backup/ restore your device, or when you change your device using same apple ID.

Just a note - nothing else mentioned here worked for me, but what I shared above.

Thanks,

GabaMia

Level 1

0 points

Apr 3, 2013 6:48 PM in response to T Yahiaoui

thank u so much T !!! 🙂

Apr 4, 2013 12:30 PM in response to KiltedTim

Since I bought my IPAD I have used the US store without any problems at all, except in the previous week.

I have never had problems with payments.

I do not have a US credit card

I am born, raised and still living in Denmark

Thanks to T Yahiaoui I am again using the US store.

Apr 4, 2013 12:31 PM in response to T Yahiaoui

Thank you T Yahiaoui, everything is working perfectly thanks to you :)

Apr 9, 2013 6:13 PM in response to T Yahiaoui

Thanks that worked

Apr 11, 2013 8:22 AM in response to Hunaidi

This work for me in El Salvador, Central America.

Thank you very much for the advice.

Regards,

Salvador Cruz

Bad427

Level 1

0 points

Apr 11, 2013 9:12 AM in response to Hunaidi

I was on vacation took the ipad and was stuck in different language tryied everything nothing works. Worst EXPERIANCE with ipad I seen so far you can tell apple has different management ***

Apr 12, 2013 11:39 PM in response to T Yahiaoui

Thanks heaps that worked for me too.

Apr 23, 2013 6:01 PM in response to T Yahiaoui

This worked for me. Thanks for posting.

Account Not In This Store (iOS6)