i have no credit card

I love my daughter and hate apple and have spent over an hour of my time running in circles with this, hitting nthe credit card wall and / or "you are not old enough to download apps" - my daughter is not old enough to download free childrens apps!!!!

I am with Ildiots Suck with this. The process apple have ***** big time. As I said, I won't go near them. I bought a small samsung y for my daughters a few months ago, which is great for children, and no problems getting them free apps.

They still return to their ipod touch because of the screen size, hence my headache today, but when they are old enough it will be samsung / sony / htc / anythingbutapple for a larger phone.

As someone said, this is a peer to peer site. If they had any sense and wanted to avoid the dark pit they're heading in (Samsung now sell more galaxy than apple sell iphone!) they need to open things up.

Seriously, who designed this and said "Ayep, this system could NOT POSSIBLY backfire EVER."?

I honestly cannot believe this, and my opinion of these people is pretty low already.

I just want a free app. Is that too much, Apple? Is it?

How stipid can the people working at apple be? That is the question. So flawed and old school. By getting the credit card info does not mean you can force ppl to buy from your store. Dirty management tricks that's all I can say.

So what our saying is that there is no way to use an existing Apple ID and choose "None" as a credit card option.

If so, then I have to agree with this being a bad solution.

I have an iPad issued to me by my company, I have an existing Apple ID for making pruchases from Apple via our portal; but we don't use credit cards. So i should be able to enter this Apple ID on this iPad and not have to enter my personal CC info.

Apple needs to provide a solution to this, because creating a secondardy Apple ID to obtain this option is not acceptable. Especcialy since instructs tell you not to create multiple ID's.

No, I'm not saying that. I've had my credit card on my account in the past but I removed it and now have 'none' selected and use iTunes gift cards. If you put your account on the iPad and you want to be able to buy items on it then you will need a method of paying for them

If you have an existing Apple ID that is STUCK asking for a credit card you can activate it by:

1. Open iTunes

2. Click on iTunes Store

3. Scroll ALL the way down to the bottom of the page

4. Under "Manage" click "Redeem"

5. Enter your existing-but-stuck User ID and Password in the popup and click OK

6. Select NONE as payment option

7. Fill out Title, Address and Phone Number

8. Click Continue

9. You're done! Enjoy you're existing not-stuck account.

This is how I just solved my own problem and I thought I'd pass it along since I didn't find this posted anywhere. No need to download a free app, no need to do anything other than what is listed above.

Did you even bother to read the topic before replying?

We are talking about an existing apple id and the inability to proceed without supplying a credit card. Your solution (posted several times already in this thread) creates a new apple id. This does not solve the problem.

This does not work there is no NONE the button is not there

I am so fed up with apple - the arrogance of this company is amazing to me.

I know of no company that is so ruthless as to force you to GIVE THEM A CREDIT CARD NUMBER in order to use basic functionaliy on a device that costs so much.

None of these tricks in this forum (or others) worked for me. The Apple Support Team told me my only option was to enter Credit Card information, then delete it later. However, after 15+ aborted attempts to "Review" my newly created Apple ID (on a mix of iTunes, iPhone Apple Store, and web browser based Apple login sites) and hitting the wall over and over, something happened and the "None" button showed up during the Review step when I got to the stage where it wanted my Credit Card information. I wish I could be more helpful, but after so many failed attempts, the best I can recall was that I went in for try #16 and did the following steps:

1) Using iTunes (on a Windows PC), I went to the Apple Store (top right button on my version of iTunes) and signed in using my Apple ID/pwd,

2) I think iTunes just forced me into the "Review" loop again immediately (but perhaps I tried to download a free app...regardless I got back into the Review loop),

3) I went through the first few Review screens (name, birthday, whatever),

4) When I got to the payment entry screen, I still did not see the mythical None button, but decided to click on PayPal for fun,

5) This seemed to launch a background browser tab for logging into PayPal, but I ignored that (I ended up just closing that tab some time later),

6) <FUZZY MEMORY> Back in iTunes, I believe I tried hitting Continue (Next?) button at the bottom without any Credit Card info,

7) <FUZZY MEMORY> I believe I had to exit/cancel this particular Review Loop...however, possibly it was this same loop session when the None button appeared at the top of this entry page next to the other payment options after hitting Continue (and failing)...I just had to add my Title and phone # (?) and then Continue/Next did work.

8) <FUZZY MEMORY> If what I recall in #7 above isn't exactly right, I most likely just cancelled that Review loop where I got stuck again but after hitting PayPal, and simply started a new 17th Login/Review loop: Again in iTunes, logging in to the same Apple ID account, going through the same first screens (#3 above), and then this time when I got to the Credit Card entry screen again the None button was actually available and working (after entering Title, etc.).

9) I recall that the iTunes Review process seemed to simply just end after this...I don't recall seeing a "Success" message, but I was done and my account is working fine, no Credit Card (or PayPal) information was entered!

Sorry I can't be more helpful, but I hoped that by posting this it might get someone started and they can fill in my blanks. Best of luck...it is possible!

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Ok this is my dads old Apple ID and he had a credit card on it and I put information of my own debit card and did not finish it like the dexterity code and it still worked to download my stuff but when I just put in an iTunes gift card 15$ it wouldn't work now I put in the secerity code and I got someo games of the debit card now the card is Declined and my money count does not show on the app store and my dad will not put his cc in again and my mom is affraid of fraud because she worked at a bank and she has seen thats stuff before and it old her she should rely on apple except for the part for how this guy from somewhere can hack your device and make u pay a ransoms of 100$ dollars on paypal I forgot who the name was though

WHERE THE **** IS THE NONE BOTTON HERE??????????????

Nobody is forcing you to enter a credit card number, there are instructions on this page for how to create a new account without giving one : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2534

This is sopt on to the problem im currently having :/

how

Absoultely agree , not expected of ... tried all means None option does not come so all formulas sugegsted are failure...