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I sold my house with my apple devices (as they were being used for home automation). Now I am in a different country. I would like to change my Appleid's country.

When I click on Country / Region under Personal Information, it tells me

Your country or region can’t be changed right now.

When I read the help linked to it, the only two items that relate to me are

  • Subscriptions (which I have deleted)
  • Possessing a payment method for the new country (which I do)

And it suggests that I should enter a new payment method.

I tried changing the payment method. The old card had expired anyway.

  • I entered card details from the new country
  • I entered the relevant address and phone number for the card
  • I copied this to the billing address
  • I pressed Update

And it tells me that the card is invalid for the old country.... Catch 22

Is there a way to Change the Country/Region?

I have read the old posts here on this topic. They are either very old and the instructions don't correspond to the current menu on https://appleid.apple.com/ or they don't have an answer.

For example, one of them suggests that you cant change it until you add store credit. But Apple's help says the reveres is true. I have no store credit.

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  • Can you change the payment method to "None" and then change the region?
    – Linc Davis
    Commented Sep 4 at 17:41
  • Is this support.apple.com/en-au/118283 (or equivalent for your country) what you have followed? Note that deleting subscriptions is not sufficient - you must wait for them to expire. What do Apple Support say?
    – Gilby
    Commented Sep 4 at 23:21
  • @Gilby, yes thats what I followed. But what I missed, as you pointed out, is that the subscriptions have to expire. Thats a tad difficult to check now as I have deleted them.
    – Rohit Gupta
    Commented Sep 5 at 12:46

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I had not read the Apple blurb carefully. I had deleted the subscriptions. But as @Gilby pointed out, one has to wait for them to expire as well.

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