Change my Country/Region without Credit Card

After you make that type of change, you must validate yourself by providing a current credit card. After validating, you can change to none for your payment method. Changing your region is not the same.

This is done to prevent exactly what you may be trying to do. No suggestion on my part that your situation is not legitimate or valid. I am surprised you were not challenged the same way when you switched to Canada.

In iTunes world, your country of residence must match the billing address country on your payment method. And your actual address must match the actual address of your payment method. So if you do not have a US address, credit card and the addresses do not match, you can't change your country.

Sadly the amount of fraud these days compels online services to take these types of measures to keep on top of it.

You may have to call Apple Support for their help, as they have features not available to you on your own.

You can't use another country's store unless you are in the country, doing so violates the store's terms that you agreed to abide by and Apple can, and does, permanently disable accounts for doing it.

You will have to enter valid payment details : Why can’t I select None when I edit my Apple ID payment information? - Apple Support

When you change the country or region of an existing Apple ID, you must provide a payment method and update your billing options. If you want to remove your payment method after you change the country or region, you can change your payment information to None.

It is my understanding that the CC info is used to establish "residency" by checking that the issuing bank is in the country that you claim to be in. Once Apple runs the check, you can remove the verified CC and replace it with none.

Here is the link you want to get it sorted out > https://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html

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baradiel wrote:

Thanks guys for the fast replies!

So if I put my credit card info that it asks me for I can later change it to none and I won't be able to buy anything in the iTunes Store? The thing is that my dad doesn't want to give me the credit card because he thinks I can buy something by accident and he doesn't want that to happen.

You need to get your Dad involved NOW! No other actions until then.

You have two options:

1. Get your Dad to sit down and put in his CC, get it verified, then change it to NONE after = he should NOT let you watch so that he feels comfortable that you don't spy his CC #
2. Get your Dad to set up Family Share with "Ask to Buy" > Set up Family Sharing - Apple Support

In my case the apple ID was added to family share, but it does not show up when I change the app store country. And still asks for a creditcard. The family share payment method does show up under 'icloud' though....

How to solve this without entering a cc which is not necessary since family sharing is active.

You can't use a country's store unless you are in the country. If there is an app that you'd like that isn't in your own country's store try contacting the app's developer and ask them to grant Apple a license to sell it there

It happens to me too whenever I switch to US store it keeps telling me to use payment card or whenever I want to download music it tells me to use card to download music in to my Ipad iOS 11.0 iPhone SE iOS 11.01

The problem you have came from changing stores.

It's illegal to download app from another country if you are not living there.

Yes, it's illegal if you got it from some other country App Store if you are not living there.

You should delete the app and re-download again from your country App Store.

Are you in the US when trying to use the US store ? If not you cannot use the US store

I made the same thing. I wanted a game from the Canadian store and now I just want to switch to the Romanian store back. I don't want to put my credit card informations in becausethere are some problems with my credit card, not reading it at the ATM. I want to chande my store as soon as possible. Thank you very much!

Explained > Change your iTunes Store country or region - Apple Support

Try this website: http://changeappstorecountry.com/

You can just select your country and the link redirects you to the selected App Store ->then you get this PopUp for changing the store and thats it.... you do not need to enter any credit card information 😎