Recently I moved from Russia to New Zealand. And now I'm experiencing an issue – all the applications I purchased in Russia cannot update here in NZ.
I see there is a number in front of Apps in iTunes but when I click on "Check for Updates" it says that no updates are currently available.
If I take my ipad and see the apps needed to update, after that download all the applications MANUALLY from app-store – it "solves" the issue.
But I need to do that each time any application I've purchased being in Russia updates. It is really annoying.
How can I solve the problem and get the automatic updates really automatic?
There is a question here: iTunes shows App Updates Badge, but no updates are available with no answer though
UPD: well, looks like there is no good solution…
UPD 2: I was insistent enough in my emails to support and among 2 pages of other irrelevant lines this is what I see:
I have regranted all available Apps back to your account as a one time exception.
So, well, probably the problem is solved partially for now 🙂
UPD 3:
Got 250+ updates in my itunes. Brief overview says that there are all the applications I ever downloaded. And if I delete them from the download list – they resurrect on itunes restart. Well, downloading them to delete right after (ps: it is not funny as long as I have 60Gb monthly limit)
UPD 4:
Let's all write a feedback at their http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html !!
Best Answer
Have you checked the normal route on this issue? First and most important is that you're on the same country store as the purchased app. No matter where you move around the world you're bound to the country store which the app is purchased from.
I have never attempted moving from one country App store to another. But this would require changing your billing information on the account and a verification of credit card billing address which has to be within the territories covered by that App store.