How to change country in App store

Perhaps you don't know this for ios devices (mine is ipad 3)

Touch:

Settings

iTunes and App Stores

Apple ID: myemailaddy@thingy.com

A window then appears with various options

View Apple ID

Sign Out

iForgot

Cancel

Touch Apple ID

Your account settings window opens

including :

Payment Information

and

Country/Region

When you touch Country/Region you get a message reminding you to enter details of the Credit Card you use in that country or it won't work.

I don't see any need to use a PC or Mac :o

Oh, but I already tried that. It does not work on my iPad2 with the latest update of ios. Even if it did work it would be cumbersome to give credit card information every time you switch from one country to another. I have a number of apps from different countries and I have to change country just to get an update.

I quote "Even if it did work it would be cumbersome to give credit card information every time you switch from one country to another"

If you want to shop in itunes or app stores in various countries, the rule is you must provide the information from a credit card for the appropriate country each time you swap country - whether cumbersome or not.

I quote more "I have a number of apps from different countries and I have to change country just to get an update", so you DID use a different credit card for each country. I suggest "it IS cumbersome" instead of "it WOULD BE cumbersome"

Apple unfortunately has to follow different countries' laws on copyright so I doubt they can do much about it. Still, we can always hope.

Do you really need to buy from different countries so often? I have found the search function to does not always find the app I'm looking for, even with correct spelling and when the app is in fact available in that country. Try using the developer's name if you can't find what you want using the app name.

Now, that is something Apple will probably manage to sort out :)

Thanks for the comments. When I use iTunes on my mac I don't need to provide the credit information every time. It can remember different credit cards. But then I need to sync. However, my parents use the iPad mini without a computer, so it seems to be a general problem.

I need to buy apps from different countries. The car navigation apps in Japanese can only be bought in the Japanese store, so I have no choice. When I am in Denmark I need a Danish (or at least) a European car navigation app. I don't see any copyright issues here. I use the Japanese app in Japan, the Danish app in Denmark and the Frensh app in France. The supply of Japanese language apps is very limited outside of the Japanese store.

I can appreciate your frustration.

Wouldn't it be nice if Apple's customer relations department employed someone to read through discussions and say something? For example "We recognise this is a significant drawback and are working on it. We do take international travellers' needs into consideration"

Dropping google maps and doing their own world mapping must be rather expensive, so ignoring the travellers' need to change store country easily would seem like leaving a rather big money wasting spanner in the works.

Amongst the people who move around the world are the business decision makers, including those who decide which tablet their organisation will invest in, n'est ce pas? Remember why IBM lost their number 1 position in the computing market? Etc. ;)

At the bottom of this page there is a flag of a country and the country's name next to it click on it and choose the right country or the country u want and then it will start downloading properly again it worked for me I promise u

thanks kuanyufromleawood!

Got it! Just go into settings, AppStore/iTunes, sign out, then sign back in, when you do this the screen should come up telling you that you can only use your country's store.

Solution to change country for apple store and itunes. no need to reset the ipad.

I have IPad 2 with iOS ver 6.1.3. I hope it helps.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1311

Thank you very much for your help worked great!

To change store to. Different country select Settings>Itunes&AppsStores>

Now tap on your Apple ID example. Abc123@me.com

Select sign out

Now again type your Apple ID example Abc123@me.com

Select sign

It will now ask to set to your original country where your account was set

My problem is this. I bought my iPad in Australia (Oz) but have mpved to NZ. Eventually I have found out how to change countries. In Safari, log in to Apple account, hit the little country flag icon bottom right hand of page. Fab. I've updated for addresses and visa (debit) card info. All sweet. Except that it isn't. Every time I try to buy an app in iStore I enter password as normal but then am asked to enter password again and verify information. A box comes up, I enter my card info. Again. I hit done. No good.

I haven't entered a State! There are no states in NZ and I am only able to select an Australian state. But I have already changed countries. I do that, hoping against hope, error message comes up "unable to use this payment method". There are $$$ in the card account, that is not the problem. An Apple glitch is. I read on page 2 of this thread that it's not possible to make the changes with an iPhone (Apple being deliberately obtuse) so maybe it's the same for iPad? I have no computer, will have to use someone else's to find out... I know how jailbreakers feel...

Changing country using a computer made no difference. I live in NZ, I have done everything asked of me to change countries, but the App Store still asks me to select an Australian State before it will allow me to buy anything. I have paid a premium price for a product, only to be locked in to an idiotic system.

It gets worse. I can't even download a free App. Same trouble as before. This all started when I changed countries....

Any reliable suggestions really would be appreciated.

Have you tried the various techniques above that have worked for others?