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.
    iPhone showing Country/Region in Account Settings.
  5. Tap Change Country or Region.
  6. Tap your new country or region, then review the Terms & Conditions.
  7. Tap Agree in the upper-right corner, then tap Agree again to confirm.
  8. 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 computer to change your region

  1. Open the Music app or iTunes.
  2. In the menu bar at the top of the screen or the top of the iTunes window, click Account, then click View My Account or Account Settings.
  3. Sign in with your Apple ID.
  4. On the Account Information page, click Change Country or Region.
    The Account Information page includes the Change Country or Region button.
  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

Learn more

* 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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