Since Apple left Russia, many useful applications and interesting games have disappeared from the App Store, and new ones have simply disappeared from Russia. The situation is similar with Apple Music, where there are no international new releases, and some old releases are being removed.
But this problem has a solution – you can change your regional account, for example, to Turkey, and use all Apple services, so, as it turned out, they resumed work in Russia. I have been using the Turkish Apple ID for a year now and found 5 nuances that you need to know about his collection.
1. You can only top up your Apple ID account in Turkey using gift cards or Oldubil bank cards
There are no inconveniences with the use of payment methods. Gift cards are purchased in a couple of minutes.
The usual way for Russians to download an Apple ID account from a mobile phone in Turkey does not work, for this you need to purchase Apple ID download codes at various sites, such as Plati or Avito. At the time of writing, 1 lira costs 4 rubles, but the sellers of Turkish gift cards charge a premium for them, so buying them through intermediaries will be a little more expensive than paying directly.
This is the easiest way, because you can top up your App Store purchase account for any amount without a hitch with the exchange of rubles to a Turkish wallet through cryptocurrencies. If you want to get the maximum benefit, Then you can get a card in the Turkish analogue of the Oldubil QIWI wallet and link it to your Apple ID account.
2. Save money with a Turkish Apple ID
Lately I’ve been buying stuff from iTunes and the App Store.
I have a little hobby – I bought my favorite music albums in iTunes, and in Russia the average price for one album is 150 rubles. In Turkey, one album costs an average of 12 liras (48 rubles). Similarly with the prices of applications, in-app purchases and movies.
Subscribe to popular services:
• Youtube 21.99₺/month
• iCloud 200 GB – 19.99₺/month, 2 TB – 64.99₺/month
• Apple Music ₺19.99/mo.
• Apple Arcade 34.99₺/mo
If you use a reverse exchange in the Russian region, then the purchases you made “abroad” are saved. True, with films there is a nuance.
3. In Turkish iTunes, movies are sold without Russian voice acting
Sad nuance.
I have a small collection of my favorite movies in iTunes, and after changing the country of accounts, I often wanted to revise the Fast and the Furious and was faced with the lack of Russian voice acting. Alas, in all films. Some of them don’t even have Russian subtitles! And there’s nothing to be done about it.
If you buy a movie on iTunes through Turkey, and then “return” to Russia, then the Russian voice acting will not appear. Here all the statements are not to Apple, but to the harsh rules of film publishers.
4. Turkish Apple Music has all the music that is not in Russia
By the way, now there are many good releases that are worth listening to. One Lana Del Rey album is worth something.
The main thing for which I personally made myself a Turkish Apple ID is Apple Music. Unfortunately, in 2022, the number of labels such as Warner Music and Sony Music has increased in Russia. Because of this, it is legally impossible to listen to new releases, for example, the new Gorillaz album in Russia.
Including some old music began to disappear. It is clear that it was possible to go to the torrents, but I got used to the comfortable use of Apple Music. I added the album to my library, and you can listen to it everywhere else and in high quality Lossless, when you turn on Dolby Atmos to completely rock the AirPods Pro.
Of course, it’s a little unusual to watch local playlists with music from Turkish artists, but Apple Music has a clear division into global selections and international ones. Therefore, there is no discomfort.
5. Some Apple services like tv+ and Fintess+ in Turkey
If I had a Russian account, the app would have a third tab — Fintess+.
To be honest, it was surprising to me that two fairly popular Apple services, tv+ and Fitness+, do not work in Turkey. I rarely use Apple’s online cinema, now that all the episodes of the last season of Ted Lasso come out to watch them in one gulp. But I often use Fitness +, I usually do exercises based on the workouts that are there.
In the end, Fitness + radiation had to make a second, already full Russian account (the main one transferred to Turkey) and connect it to Apple TV and iPhone. So if you can’t live without Apple TV shows, consider whether it’s worth changing the Apple ID region to Turkey. Otherwise, make a Turkish account separate from the usual one.
conclusions
This is how we live now.
I didn’t find any objective disadvantages of changing the Apple ID region to Turkey, there are only pluses and nuances, it’s easy to get along with the expectation. In general, if you are used to the features that apple services provide, I see no reason not to use it even in observed situations.
What do you think?
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