• After more than 15 years covering everything Apple, it’s with a heavy heart we announce that we will no longer be publishing new content on iMore and the iMore forums will be closing as of November 1st, 2024.

Will the music in my Apple Music disappear if I change the country of my Apple Store?

I

iMore Question

As I moved from Ukraine to Englad I now have a British credit card which means that my Apple Store will be in Englad rather than in Urkaine now. When I try to change it, it says that I need to cancel my Apple Music subscription before changing the location of an App Store. Does it mean that I will loose all of my music if I make that change?
 

Just_Me_D

Ambassador Team Leader, Senior Moderator
Moderator
Jan 8, 2012
60,414
883
113
Visit site
Maybe, but I'm not sure. You should contact Apple Support regarding this matter. In my opinion.
 

Tartarus

Ambassador
Feb 20, 2014
17,446
26
48
Visit site
Hi,.
My best advice is to make a backup of your owned music.
Any music you added from Apple Music you have to write down or take screenshots of them.

Then proceed as told by Apple and cancel your subscription for Apple Music for the Ukrainian store. Change your location to the UK and subscribe again to Apple Music.

Your own music will be matched or uploaded back according to the UK Apple Music database.

Now add those songs you had previously added from Apple Music to your library and you're all set.

Please keep in mind that not all songs available in the Ukraine will also be available in the UK. This will result in songs matched in the Ukraine will now be uploaded. Or songs previously uploaded in Ukraine will now be matched.
Same goes for songs added from Apple Music.
Not all songs in the Ukraine will be available in the UK. You will have to buy those songs from the Ukrainian iTunes Store. That's why I recommend you to just make a new account for the Ukraine after switching to the UK in your currently existing account.

If you have any further questions, please join our forum. We're happy to help.
 

Latest posts

Trending Posts

Members online

Forum statistics

Threads
262,069
Messages
1,773,544
Members
441,382
Latest member
Mohammadreza