I live in the UK but both my children will be attending university in Canada starting in the fall…probably won’t return to the UK to live. I’m wondering what happens to their iTunes content if they change the country on their accounts from the UK to Canada. From what I’ve read they will no longer see things purchased here on their account but what if something catastrophic happens to their laptop? Will they be able to find and re-download their music etc?
I also understand they will not see anything they got from my iTunes library through Family Share?
Should they instead open new separate iTunes accounts and access the old stuff if needed with the old log in? Would they need to do that on a VPN?
Can anyone advise what is the most streamlined way to manage a move?
In the new countries store you can’t see what you bought at other countries, because this store is only for the one country .
The PREVIOUSLY BOUGHT stuff should be still in your local itunes on your hard drive. best to keep the backup and not rely on the store to refresh you.
As “family share” is a feature of the store, that will only work while all the accounts are set to the country of the purchase… I guess they will also forget what you bought before too. The DRM on your files is enough to let it play on your computer, or a new computer which you move your ID to… There’d be no way to replicate the effect of family share , without using the apple online store, as files on your hard drive are DRM’d to be for you and you only. Its the online store that gives your giving your family the file with a DRM signature for THE RECIPIENT. So when you change the country, there goes your family definition… you restart it…
Itunes is not locked by ip address, etc, as they want to sell to people who travel…
The difficulty is that if you move all your credit cards, bank accounts to the new country , you can’t keep paying for the old countries store… as the apple stores limit you to their local payments. (eg UK credit cards in UK store… )
If you keep an old country payment method, you might keep the itunes at that old country.
You might prefer to change your country to the new one because you get better or cheaper content.
But since USA’s store is very full of english language stuff, at a cheaper price, you might choose to keep it , or start to use it… apparently there are (ebay ?) gift cards for itunes… that means you can buy them with OS credit cards and still appear to be using a USA payment method for USA itunes.