Ask HN: Two countries, one iPhone, how to handle country restricted apps?

2 points by chatmasta 8y ago ↗ HN

As a US citizen in the UK, I have finances and responsibilities on both sides of the pond. I have US bank accounts, UK bank accounts, etc...

Unfortunately, the most critical apps tend to be the apps that are only available in the app store of their country. For example I can only download American banking apps from the US app store, and UK banking apps from the UK store.

This is no problem; I have payment/residence info in both countries and can "switch my account" in the store.

The problem is that I cannot have two apps from different countries on my device at the same time. So every time I want to use one of the apps, I need to switch my account to a different country again, which deletes the apps from the other country.

Any solutions to this problem, short of jailbreaking, getting a second device, or switching to Android?

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charlesdm 8y ago ↗

You can set up a UK account and a US account. You could set your main account to the US, and create an additional iTunes UK account for your UK apps. Both apps will update separately.

chatmasta 8y ago ↗

Thanks. Do I need to do this through iTunes on my desktop?

I think you can just do it from your phone -- log out of your existing account, swap stores (at the bottom of the App Store app) and you should be prompted to create a new account.

oaradix 8y ago ↗

You can use app (e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.applisto.a...) to modify app package name. You don't have to have even root privileges.