Updating Apps when you are in another country

[Highmac]

This could affect a lot of people. We're out of our home country and I was recommending a free app, by email, to a friend. Getting a link, I went into the App Store and called it up. Oh, it's been updated. May as well download and install. Well it *seemed* to have done so, but of course it wanted me to sign in to install it. You cannot sign up from another country without re-registering and all the details relating to your move.

The update had deactivated the original one - the original app is still in the Applications foldere, but won't launch. So it seems the lesson is...

Save updates until you get home!

[Paddy]

Interesting - it didn't give you the option of changing to the UK app store? I have accounts here in Canada and one still active in the US (which I really need to use up the balance on - still has $70 there!) from when we lived there. I have a few apps that I have to update from the US store; it always tells me that I can't update them when signed into the Canadian app store.

[Dreambird]

Actually if you can at least get into the store... you could try scrolling right to the bottom of page... in the lower right hand corner there should be an icon with the flag of the country whose store you are in. Click on it and it should give you a whole slew of countries to choose from. Click on the touchpad not just a tap.