Can't change Country/Region after cancel Apple Music membership !

Hey, I just googled an app that was only available in my country (iPlayer UK) then tapped on it to open in the App Store. I got a prompt that said I needed to change the store to view it and boom! It just changed the store.

I have an active Apple Music subscription and my App Store was stuck on US until I did this.

I found a solution!

So basically i accidentally changed my country region in the app store so i couldnt use my apple music and for using my apple music, i had to change the country back to mine and for that i needed to cancel my apple music subscription so what i did was, since i am from india, i searched google for india only apps and tapped on one app and since it was india only, it said this app isnt available in your country and i clicked on change county, it switched me back to the indian store, and my apple music started to work again..

Hope this helps..

If anyone has this issue and sees his thread I found a fix! I had the exact same issue even after unsubscribing. All I did was download a free app and it asked me to change store. Clicked change store and I was back on the U.S. store and could use Apple Music again 😁

2 years late but I believe I just discovered the solution. This just happened to me by accident when I tried to download an app from a different country, it asked me to switch countries (which I agreed to) then found myself stuck. Tried everything but then I figured reverse psychology would work. I just googled apps that are only available in the country you desire (in my case the U.S. and that app was Pizza hut) and it once again asked me if I wanted to switch countries, then boom!! Its all good now

I have same issue between my iPhone battery issue and now this I think I will be leaving Apple very soon going down hill lately for not a cheap product

I always buy the top of the range phone with max memory

I’m so disappointed with the product and these silly

Stuff like wait 3 month s to change store it’s ridiculous

It’s becoming like a second rate company lately living off the good work layed down years ago

I figured it out, I had the SAME problem. Just go into the app store and download a ramdom app and it will say that it can't because it's not available in the region so press to change and it switches back

Facing the same problem. This is ridiculous. Never expected this from Apple.

I even tried to pay 1 month subscription but the subscription will only be valid once my 3 month trial ends.

Now I am in another country and stuck with this issue.

I know this is old but I had to respond. Earlier I had clicked on an app link I found and it said the app wasn’t available in my country so it asked me to change regions. Sure why not!

Fast forward a couple hours and I realize my Apple Music songs aren’t playing. Any song I purchased and downloaded would play. But streaming songs would just not play, with no error.

It then hit me that I had changed regions. So I found where to change regions but it wouldn’t let me while having an active apple music subscription. I canceled, but because my subscription was still valid for the remainder of the laid period it still wouldn’t let me change regions.

So I googled “iphone app” and in the list that returned, I just went through clicking apps as they auto launch the app store. Finally when I clicked on “Citi Mobile” it recognized I needed to have my country changed to United States. So I clicked the button to complete the change and all is good! I can now play streaming somgs like normal and have re-subscribed to Apple Music!

Yep, because of this very disappointing experience of using Apple Music, I'm leaving the service, turning into Spotify, and subsequently because of mine being on Spotify, I gave up buying HomePod which I have been eyeing for a long while. This is how bad user experience triggers a much bigger problem.

Wait until other people have the same react as I did, then Apple would change it, and the(or some) product manager would get fired.

Go to: settings>tap on your name at the top>iTunes and App Store>Tap your Apple ID> sign out.

Then sign back in. You should get a message telling you that you are being moved to other AppStore (in my case UK).

Worked for me.

Many people in this thread said that using the method like in browser search for an app only exist in another country, click the link to app store and the prompt message will ask you to switch stores to another country.

This method I don't know why not working for me. I can get the prompt message and the store really changed to another country. However, when try to down an app, it still prompt another message saying your account still in original country, and ask you to switch back to your original country app store.

For me, using a link searching another country app and link to it, answer to switch app store is not working..... I can change to that another country app store but still cannot download an app there......

Its been three years since the original thread and complaints went up. I just moved to another international country too and am having the same problem. Apple is ignoring their customers complaints and requests on this issue. It should br an easy fix.

I’ve been an Apple Music member for several yrs. still won’t let me change stores unless I cancel my subscription. I don’t want to lose all my playlists

I am tempted to get rid of Apple Music and use google play. Even the free version is good.

Hello Thom, I recently ran into a problem similar to yours, I accidentally switched to the U.K. Store from the US store and could no longer listen to my Apple Music because of the store change. When I tried to change it back through the settings I had the message that I had to cancel my Apple Music subscription first. I didn’t want to do that so I thought I’d get out of the U.K. store how I got in. I found a link to an app only available in the US store and clicked on that link, I attempted to download that app. A message popped saying the app was only available in the US Store and asked me if I wanted to change stores. I clicked the change store button and it changed stores, I kept my subscription to Apple Music, everything went back to normal. So to change stores find an app only available in he store you want to be in and attempt to download it. Hope this helps!

What’s most outrageous is even till today, after four whole years you posted the problem on here, apple has NOT done anything about it. I subscribed Apple Music in China, but when I came to uk and wanted to download some apps in uk store, it still doesn’t work! I can’t change my region until the membership expires. That’s unbelievable. They can personalise all these user preferences but not this. Apple is really not helping go international in this case.