How to change country in App store

If you choose iTunes and App stores in Settings etc (as I explained previously in this thread) and you choose NZ and enter your NZ Visa info, and you still don't succeed, you will have to phone your local Apple shop and ask for help (even if its nowhere near where you are).

I think you may have omitted a step in the procedure.

I still don't understand why, though, when we travel, we can buy from any ordinary shop in the world using whatever valid bank card we have and issued from any country. I am English, and even though I live in France with a French bank account, I would like to buy apps, films and books in English that are not available on the French iTunes or AppStore. I can't!

Perhaps a competent Apple porte-parole will give the reasons (probably legal issues) for not accepting orders for local products from travellers and ex-pats that don't have a bank account in every country they visit.

Thanks for your reply, Gimme6.

I've tried everything I'm able to. I even went into town today specially to use a non-mobile device, as someone said you can't do it on an iPhone. I only have an iPad, which of course is also on iOS. Others have said go to Settings ---> iTunes and App Stores, but I have no option of that kind. I have Settings ---> Store but that gives me no options to change what has been suggested.

I use iOS 5.1.1 and am not about to go to 6, as I read about the maps disaster and like maps.

I've gone to Apple Support and am waiting on their reply.

This situation should not exist. It's an Apple fcuk-up that I've paid big $$$ to experience. The one Appleid is required everywhere and so changing customer info. in one place should ripple through to the others or there should only be one place to change it.

:: Perhaps a competent Apple porte-parole will give the reasons (probably legal issues) for not accepting orders for local products from travellers and ex-pats that don't have a bank account in every country they visit.

It's part of Apple philosophy to decide for you what they will let you do.

Yes there is an option to change your settings but its not obvious.

Reread my instructions. You have to click on your Apple ID which is in fact your email address at the top above the other options.

Good grief, I got there in the end.

Apple support came back and said on a mobile device follow:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1311

You had summarised this but for me an important step was omitted. So I went to

Settings ---> Store and tapped on the field containing my Appleid. There I changed country, but I also had to sign out after that and then I think I also reconfirmed the change, and made sure to be out of the AppStore app while doing that. Then when going back into the the AppStore I was able to get the App I wanted. It's currently downloading.

The page HT1311 above talks about creating a new Appleid. That is not necessary.

Thanks for your help!

Good :) Glad you managed. The AppleID button you missed doesn't look like the other buttons so its very easy to consider it isn't a button. The interface design team needs to change the way the menu is presented.

There are so many things they could do it's hard to know where to start.

But something very easy would be some narrative round the changing countries page, the one that comes up from clicking the flag icon at bottom right hand corner, to tell users that if they really have moved countries then they need to do this, that and bla bla. This is not rocket science.

And some too on the page for updating addresses. Etc etc.

Have a great day!

Perfect thanks. I had a "doh" moment when you said go to Home. But it's easy go to AppStore on your iPad scroll down down down past all the stuff they want to sell you to QUICK LINKS and you find your AppleID, sign out sign and you get a message say you are being redirected to theUK Store. Thanks again.

It's simple, first close all running apps on your iPad, then open settings > iTunes & app store

Sign out, then log back in.. You'll be automatically switched to your original App Store!!

Have you tried calling the store you bought it from? Even Apple customer services have been helpful when ice really come unstuck. Number's on the Apple.dom website

I literally just got stuck having changed from UK TO US store. All I did was go to iTunes, scroll to the bottom of the page, clicked where it said my Apple ID name and it came back " not registered at US store you will be connected to original"....etc it changed me back literally at the touch of a button!

I am a beginner so please bear with me.

Feeling trapped in the US store with no way back to my local Apple Store,

I turned OFF and ON the iPad and clicked on the store icon and downloaded a free game.

Clicked "free" / install app / enter ID password / open .... and found myself BACK at my local store.

If it works for anyone, please acknowledge for everyone׳s benefit.

Have a nice day.

Sally

Thanks skip. I did exactly what you did. I only have one account and one country, and all the other advice i found related to buying from several countries. Your advice solved it simply & quickly. So again, thanks!

Thanks for the info Vince2k1, I did the IPhone instructions on the IPad and worked too. God bless you.

u dont need any computer at all . just foloow these steps

1. Settings -> iTunes and App Store -> Click on Apple ID -> View Apple ID

2. enter your password- change Country/Region

3. press done

worked with me without computer .....sure 100

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