how to add a family member with an iTunes account in another country?

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how to add a family member with an iTunes account in another country?

I already changed my iTunes account twice because of moving to a different county. We have changed countries again I don't want to change iTunes country again because I've made considerable purchases. So I cannot change if I don't want to loose my purchases.

My wife started to use an iPhone recently and set the iTunes/App Store account to the country where we live now and has made purchases already.

When I try to add a family member it says that the country has to be the same... technically makes sense, in practice it doesn't!!

If there any workaround (without the need to change countries all the time!!!)???

Thanks

Posted on Sep 21, 2018 5:39 PM

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Dah•veed

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Sep 21, 2018 7:51 PM in response to Lamma Mac

You don't loose your purchases just because you change countries. Your purchases will disappear from the Purchased pane because the Purchased pane is country specific and only shows purchases that you have made in the current country's store. As long as you create a complete backup of all the purchases that you have made in a particular country, which Apple recommends all the time, before you change to a new country's store, then you will always have access to them. The issue is that if the developer updates that content, you won't be notified of the update and you won't be able to update if you hear about it, unless the developer also sells that content in your current store.

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Lamma Mac Author

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Oct 10, 2018 12:44 PM in response to Dah•veed

You are right and you also listed the problems: purchases (and eventually some updates) will disappear and I'd need to change countries back and forth to update software. Which defeats the purpose of the seamless updates Apple has been creating.

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ckuan

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Sep 21, 2018 5:46 PM in response to Lamma Mac

Family Sharing: To qualify, all family members must live in the same country.

There's no workaround.

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Lamma Mac Author

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Sep 21, 2018 6:09 PM in response to ckuan

we live in the same country but I had to keep using my app store from the previous country as I don't want to loose the purchases I made there and I still have a bank account there.

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