Change your Apple ID country or region

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.

What to do before you change your country or region

Use your iPhone or iPad to change your region

  1. Open the Settings app.

  2. Tap your name, then tap Media & Purchases.

  3. Tap View Account. You might be asked to sign in.

  4. Tap Country/Region.

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  5. Select your new country or region.

  6. Tap Change Country or Region.

  7. Tap your new country or region, then review the Terms & Conditions.

  8. Tap Agree in the upper-right corner, then tap Agree again to confirm.

  9. Select a payment method and enter your new payment information and billing address, then tap Next. You must enter a valid payment method for your new country or region.*

Use your Mac or Windows PC to change your region

  1. Open the Apple Music app or Apple TV app.

  2. On a Mac, in the menu bar, choose Account > Account Settings. On a Windows PC, click your name at the bottom of the sidebar, then click View My Account.

  3. You might need to sign in with your Apple ID.

  4. On the Account Information page, click Change Country or Region.

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  5. Select your new country or region.

  6. Review the Terms & Conditions, then click Agree. Click Agree again to confirm.

  7. Enter your new payment information* and billing address, then click Continue.

Change your region online

  1. Sign in to appleid.apple.com.

  2. Tap or click Personal Information.

  3. Tap or click Country/Region.

  4. Follow the onscreen instructions. You must enter a valid payment method for your new country or region.*

If you can't change your country or region

* 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.

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