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For people outside the US: use a second apple account with Region set to US. I have used this many times for country specific public transport or delivery apps
by aloer 3y ago
For people outside the US: use a second apple account with Region set to US.
I have used this many times for country specific public transport or delivery apps but same thing works here. You do not lose access to other apps, sync features or subscriptions.
Go into the App Store app, not your phone settings, click your profile and scroll all the way down to log out. Then log in with a US account, download the app and switch again.
You can continue using the US only apps after switching back
- gnrlst 3y agodo updates work if i switch back to my original account?
- aloer 3y agoGood point. That doesn’t work, need to log in with the US account first. Or remain logged in. Works fine for me though. I have barely any apps that need updating
- lstamour 3y agoYes they work but you will be prompted to sign in with the account that bought the app by entering its password. Auto-updates sometimes work but only if you’ve entered the password for the account recently. Some work was done around iOS … 14 maybe? to try and improve this experience, but iOS is still not fully multi-account. And strange things sometimes happen to DRM content, in-app purchases and music libraries.
- drclau 3y agoHow can you create a US account? Don't they ask for a credit/debit card and/or phone number?
- jimstr 3y agoI bought a $20 US gift card on ebay and redeemed that into a new US account
- nickpp 3y agoIsn’t it enough to just switch the region to US, download the app, then switch back?
- aloer 3y agoyou have to cancel your subscriptions, use up all balance and can only do it once every X months
- behnamoh 3y agoOr just open chat.openai.com in Safari and do a “Add to Homescreen”. Before the official app, I was using cgpt on my phone like that and it worked well.
- mrgill 3y agoYou need to login each time if you use Safari in private browsing mode.
- capableweb 3y agoAnd if you use a 56kb modem you need to connect to the internet before using the website. Somehow, I believe you put yourself in that situation and it's not generally applicable to most people who don't use private browsing mode as the default one.
- behnamoh 3y agoNo one forced you to use the private mode!