Thursday 9 June 2011

How To: Create an Apple ID in iTunes Without a Credit Card

You can discover few amazing iOS apps like Google Earth and Adobe Ideas on the iTunes Apps store. Definitely, all are free to download but there is a provision to having a US based Apple ID to install them on to your iPhone or iPad.

Even though it is very simple to figure out the problem by creating another Apple ID. But at first you need to sign-out of your present account. In case you do not have a U.S based credit card, you required to set ‘none’ as the payment method. Now you allowed to download US apps with the new Apple ID.
What if the ‘none’ payment option is not appearing in your iTunes? What to do then for creating an Apple ID without a credit card? Sometimes it may happen that none option will be missing on your payment screen while creating a new Apple ID for downloading U.S. specific apps.



So you can make an Apple ID inside iTunes by following two ways.

Either you can jump on Store –> Create Account or simply download an app and iTunes will prompt you to create an Apple ID. If you choose the latter route then you can find the ‘none’ option for payment.
The easy steps are given below that should be followed by you to create an Apple ID with a U.S. address but without requiring a credit card:

Step 1. Start iTunes and move to the iTunes store. Be ensure that you are not logged in.
Step 2. Now you need to change your country to United States by scrolling down.
Step 3. Finally go to App store and download any of the free apps.

At last ‘none’ option on the Payments screen will become available and now you evolve into an owner of a brand new Apple account. You can even watch the video below for quick recap of the entire process.