Change your Apple ID country or region – Apple Support (AU) (2024)

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Change your Apple ID country or region – Apple Support (AU)? ›

The subscription must expire before you can change the country or region. If you cannot wait until the subscriptions was set to renew and expires at that point naturally you can contact Apple support directly to have them terminate it immediately.

The subscription must expire before you can change the country or region. If you cannot wait until the subscriptions was set to renew and expires at that point naturally you can contact Apple support directly to have them terminate it immediately.

In the Apple ID Summary area, click Change Country or Region. Click the pop-up menu, choose a country or region, then follow the on-screen instructions.

Before you update your location, you must spend your store credit, cancel your subscriptions, and get a payment method for your new country or region.

While you're not breaking any laws by using another country's region on your iPhone, doing so can violate Apple's Terms of Service.

* If you don't want to enter a payment method, wait until you're physically in your new country or region, then create a new Apple ID. Information about products not manufactured by Apple, or independent websites not controlled or tested by Apple, is provided without recommendation or endorsem*nt.

How's long does it usually take to change country on your Apple ID? It should only be a matter of a few minutes. There is nothing that really needs to be done from Apple's end. Sometimes restarting a device helps clear up odd issues.

If you can't change your Apple ID

If you see a message that the email address you want to use isn't available or is already in use, check that you or a family member aren't already using that email address with a different Apple ID.

You can upload the new account by pressing every file. That's all you need to do to create a new Apple ID without losing the data. To ensure that you don't lose any data while moving the files from one place to another, you'll need to preserve enough storage on the computer.

How many times can I change country and region on Apple? ›

Nope. Still only one Region at a time, and only one Apple ID at a time. Also, logging out of one Apple ID and logging in to a different one can only be done once every 90 days.

Tap View Account. You might be asked to sign in. Tap Country/Region. Select your new country or region.

Before updating your location, you must spend your store credit, cancel your subscriptions and get a payment method for your new country or region.

Though you can have multiple app store countries tied to your Apple ID or have different countries linked to your original Apple ID, you cannot enter app stores of multiple countries simultaneously.

That means you lose access to all your existing iTunes and App Store purchases when you change your Apple ID to a different country. Anything already on your device is still available to use, and apps you've already downloaded still get the latest updates.

Most probable reason is that you've recently changed your country, and there is a Play Store's one-year waiting period before you can change it again. Additionally, if you have a balance on your account, you may not be able to change your country until you've used up the balance or transferred it to another account.

You cannot change the storefront information for your account at this time. You need a zero account balance and you need to cancel all your subscriptions. If you have cancelled all subscriptions, but some haven't expired, contact iTunes Support.

There is no limit. You just have to have a payment option and billing address in the country or region you change to.