iTunes Tip: Create iTunes Account without Credit card or Gift Card
iTunes have bunch of free stuff, like single of the week, music video of the week and free apps but you can’t get them without an iTunes Account. You also need an iTunes account to enable Home Sharing on iTunes 9 and to download free apps for your iPhone and iPod Touch.
Before the introduction of the App store, you need a Credit Card, or an iTunes Gift Card to be able to download these free stuff. Perhaps Apple thought that kids who like to download free apps doesn’t have their own credit card. Here’s a comprehensive step-by-step guide on how too create a free iTunes account. Please take not that you need to signup under US iTunes store, other country settings only have App store and you can get access to free music and video.
- First run itunes and click on the iTunes store icon under “store” on the left pane. Then click App Store on the Top Navigation bar
- On the right column, there’s a list of free apps you can download, click on anyone of them.
- This will lead you to the Applications page, just click “Get App”
- This will lead you to your iTunes Account Login, but you don’t have an account yet so click on “create new account”
- iTunes will open the iTunes welcome scree, Just click “continue”
- You can read the iTunes Store Terms and condition if you have time, but you can just select the “you have read” check box and click continue.
- Fill up the form, and click continue
- On Provide a Payment Method form select none (you wont have this option if you did not signed up to get a free app). To be able to download free music and videos you need to set your location to US. You can use any US area code (i used 90210 beverly hills CA). You can invent the phone number make sure the first box have three number area code and phone number have seven numbers.
- Now you need to verify your account a verification email was sent to the email address you provided.
- Go to your email inbox and look for an email coming from apple, then click on the verification link
- Your iTunes account now have been activated, you can download free apps, free songs of the week and more free stuff from the iTunes store.
If you have successfully created an account or having problems creating an itunes account, please feel free to leave a comment.
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Thank you a zillion for the advice on opening an iTunes account without a credit card. I bought a 3GS and within a few mins of following ur advice things are up and running. Thank you so much.
Glad to help…
Cheers!
uhm..another problem to me..im from philippines..but when i make an account it always says verify with my email adress but it doesnt send any verification no matter how many times I resend it.. what would be the cause of this?? tnx in advance..
kindly check your spam folders or junk mail
ive already got the mail..there are almost 15 mailes of verification..lol.. guys my advice is you just have to wait if you want to create an account,,:)
congrats mayt
I tried creating iTunes acc thru my iPhone but the column to create doesn’t seem to appear,only entering email &password appearing.how can I overcome it?
Tq
Thanks so much for this. It worked flawlessly.