Change the Country Settings for iTunes and the App Store This second method is particularly useful if you don't have a payment method for the new country you want to use. Otherwise, you should create a second account to make it easier to switch between iTunes and App Store countries multiple times. If you are moving to a different country permanently-meaning you only expect to change the country for iTunes and the App Store once-then you should change the settings for your account. How to Change the iTunes and App Store Country This might be impossible to do if you moved to America permanently and your Australian payment details have expired. Then, if you ever wanted to access your Australian purchases again, you'd need to use an Australian card to change back. So if you moved from Australia to the US, you'd need to get an American credit card to change to the US App Store. You can't use an Australian credit card in the US App Store, for example. The biggest issue is that you need a valid payment method for whichever country you want to change iTunes and the App Store to. But you'll need to change the App Store and iTunes settings back to your original country again if you want to access purchases that you hadn't already downloaded.

That means you lose access to all your existing iTunes and App Store purchases when you change your Apple ID to a different country.Īnything already on your device is still available to use, and apps you've already downloaded still get the latest updates. But even if two stores have exactly the same content, you can only access your purchased media from the store you bought it from. Sometimes these stores have different apps, music, movies, and other media available in them.

Each country accesses a different version of iTunes or the App Store.

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