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When changing country on iCloud, did you lose all your purchases (apart from subscriptions)? Like books, apps, movies…
by benhurmarcel 5y ago
When changing country on iCloud, did you lose all your purchases (apart from subscriptions)? Like books, apps, movies…
- greghinch 5y agoI lost some but not most of my movies. Same for apps. Music was the worst, but on Apple Music so not purchases (just had to re-add a lot of things to my library). It has to do with how the individual content (film, app, song) is licensed. If the same content has a separate license in the new country, it won’t carry over. Also note this means it will depend on the two countries you are moving between (ie. I went US > UK, and I would guess there is a lot more licensing crossover between these two countries, whereas two others may not have so much).
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoAnd this is why I flat-out will not buy digital content unless: 1. It's DRM-Free. 2. I can remove the DRM. (All iTunes movies released prior to 2020 fall into this category.) 3. It's cheap enough that I can treat it like a rental; I fully expect to loose access after a few years and anything longer is a bonus.
- madeofpalk 5y agoNo. The only thing I lost was my entire music library. All other purchases remained, from what I can tell.