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Country restrictions on app stores are weird in general. I was in Japan for a little while and it would have been very helpful to download a few particular And
by leros 3y ago
Country restrictions on app stores are weird in general.
I was in Japan for a little while and it would have been very helpful to download a few particular Android apps for payments, trains, etc but those apps could only be downloaded if your Google account country was set to Japan and you can only change your country once a year. A friend of mine didn't realize that and is now still locked into Japanese only apps even though they're back in the US.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoWhen I was abroad for a while, I used Yalp Store to get around this.
- sgdpk 3y agoI am facing the same problem right now. I am abroad but cannot install foreign apps. Have you (or them) found any solution to this in the meantime?
- cute_boi 3y agoI just create new account. Thankfully, I never purchase any paid apps.
- asdaq1312512 3y agoI mean, creating a new Google/Apple ID is one thing, but it's also quite annoying to log out of your primary ID. So I'm wondering, did anybody try if this works with multiple users on Android? On iOS apparently you can log into separate accounts for iCloud and the App store, but never tried that either.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoYes, I have two accounts, one for italian and one for canadian apps. I have an italian sim card that i can monitor only with the carrier's italian app, so i need this configuration.
- mmh0000 3y agoI imagine the Aurora Store[1] (a privacy focused proxy to Google Play) would be a viable solution. [1] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore [2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/