Apple ID - Multiple Countries - Expats

We are fellow users, we won't know if/when Apple might open an Apple store in Ireland.

For content in the iTunes stores, content is provided by the content providers to Apple to sell on a country-by-country basis, each country therefore has to have its own store and you have to be in a country to use its store - whilst you are in Ireland you can only use the Ireland store. If there are items that aren't available in the Ireland store that you'd like to buy then you could try contacting the TV company / film studio / record label and ask them to allow Apple to sell them in Ireland.

For Netflix, that will also be due to licensing.

i am in the same boat, and this bs makes me so mad

you would think a company like apple was aware of gobalization and understand people have lives and move around...

You can take all of your content with you. You simply cannot redownload it from another country.

You should be keeping everything on your computer and a backup copy. If you do that, you lose nothing when you move to another country.

but what about the free apps?

I dont really purchase anything from the appstore and am still using a canadian account in the US for now.

for example, my Canadian bank has an app available only in Canadian appstore and my US bank has an app available only in US store. what am I supposed to do? I need both! I have credit cards and residences in both countries.

If I change the country on my account (which btw is what I think would answer the gentlemen's initial question), will I lose the free apps (like my banking apps)? Will I have to redownload all the apps I use (netflix, gmail, etc etc). Can I have 2 appstore accounts and cycle between the 2 depending on where I am?

What about free apps? They are no different that paid apps. You do not lose anything if you move, you simply cannot redownload it.

You lose nothing, unless you delete it.

Changing countries does not erase anything. You simply cannot use the U.S iTunes store unless you are in the U.S, and you cannot use the Canadian iTunes store unless you are in Canada.

Same issue for me as well. I can undertand not being able to access or update paid apps, but free ones? It's ridiculous. Any free app should be allowed to be downloaded from any country. It drives me crazy that every few weeks I have update my Apple ID to another country just to check for and download updates for free apps, like my bank and travel apps.

same here. living between to countries and having to switch my apple id country / phone / cards every time I want to update an app from "the other" store. plus, some apps just won't work when country is switched. is painful, ridiculous and can be fixed with some will (see amazon prime for instance).

Apple don’t listen to Expats. As an Australian in the Middle East I have the same issues.