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

Can I not simply remove Apple Music from my phone so it doesn't have to wait out for the expiry? I really desperately need to access that app on this phone.

You will need some assistance from iTunes Support staff to cancel the remainder of the subscription period; for immediate expiration.

Hey ! I just had this problem I did it by accident. I searched for a song and it wasn’t available on the au store so it took me to a Japanese store and I accepted not thinking and I had no music left on my acct that I had saved, 4 years worth ! Anyway I searched another song via google, I put for example “mercy by Shaw Mendez AU ITUNES” and it came up, I clicked it and it restored all my music I dont know if it’ll work for everyone else but it did for me thank god !!

Go onto safari and try to buy almost any app. It will say would you like to change to the United states Appstore. Click change and you will be swithced. I have apple music and this worked.

sign out apple id..then sign in back..

Problem: Subscribed to 3month apple music free trial. Received a song from a friend who’s using Philippines Apple ID, so my apple music with my apple ID (for UAE) won’t work anymore.

Solution: Go to apple store. Update an application. It’ll ask you to change store. :) voila! Tried apple music and it worked! 💕

3 years this has been going on it seems? Disgusting.. Same problem for me only I rang Apple Support and unlike some people on here was told they couldn't help and couldn't change the subscription to inactive. I had to wait until it was expired. No warning when you take the trial you're fixed to one region.

I assume they do this on purpose - to stop people easily flicking between locations and getting different Apple Music Content right? But to not provide a way of support removing the service so that you're not asking to keep it - YOU WANT IT DELETED so you can use your phone (even though this would be LOSING a service you still have a right to use) they instead render your phone useless until the subscription expires.

Apple.... If people could be bothered to take you to court over this one - I'm telling you you would lose. This is the worst one yet.

This solution from TShourbagy worked for me too! Thank you for the advice!

The first few assistants told me nothing could be done, but because of this post I persisted and told them to keep asking. My query went up the chain and eventually was passed to the Engineering Dept. I was told they would get back to me in 24hours with a solution if they had one. About a day later, I had an email from apple saying my problem was solved and I can now change my region. Which was correct, they fixed the problem. It CAN be done.

Thank you TShourbagy.

Hey guys,

if you want to change the country of your store the easy way, ise the link below.. at it to your home screen and choose the country you want ... although you cannot get the purchase you made in one country.. it still fixes the problem for me.. don’t need to wait until your subscription end

http://switchr.imagility.io/

when i try to update or download an app i can’t put none as my payment method and also i can’t change my region(i tried every possible way to change my region and i can’t) i put my credit card it never works even though they say that u won’t be charged if u don’t buy anything and i haven’t bought anything

if you have another apple id that was made in the region you want, simply sign out of your current apple id. Sign into another one that has the region you want.Then sign out of that one, and sign back into your original one and that should solve the problem.

Same issue with my account as well.

i want to go back to my previous store and i can not.

i think we are forced to wait until the 3 month free subscription is ended. kissanime source

I have just heard back from support, and here is their reply: "in order to change countries, you will need to allow this subscription to expire. That means you have to wait for 3 months for the expiry of the subscription. I am sorry for any inconvenience that might have caused to you." 😠

This is unlike Apple, Steve Jobs would have never allowed something like this. I have been preaching for Apple most of my life, but this time I am very disappointed.

Me as a customer am forced to wait 3 month for the trial to expire, what does this mean ? I should have been warned before engaging in this trial then, if only I knew I would have never engaged so fast. They should have put a little warning sign: "Trying Apple Music will block you from changing countries for the next 3 months" ...

The support teams answer is actually outrageous. I'm switching app store regions with a purpose: because I'm commuting between two countries on a weekly basis and need different apps from different purposes in different countries. This black pattern created by Apple makes me impossible for instance to update my banking app in Austria or to use a gift card what I just got. It doesn't seems to me justified to wait 3 month in order to update an app or to use a gift card just because I signed up to a free trial of apple music and don't have the possibility to cancel the trial. This is ridiculous and and the worst user experience I ever had in the past two years. Not to mention that kind of a first impression to me about ios, as this happens a week after I switched from Android to ios.

Did you manage to restore your country?

The thing that worries me is that Apple will consider this to be a bug and fix it in future releases but not fix the underlying problem. ideally user should be able to change the country without having to cancel various subscriptions.

This works great for viewing the app, but when you try to download it it’ll reject you unless it’s also in your App Store country. It might also be that your country has some special arrangement for the App Store.