10 Step Solution for YouTube Premium using a VPN (Fix for Payment Error [OR_RECR_05])

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YouTube has recently started cracking down on users whose billing country does not match the country of their payment method. If you are encountering the error “Transaction declined. This purchase requires a payment method from your billing country. [OR_RECR_05]”, here is a solution that might help.

Steps:

  1. Create a New Apple ID:
    • Visit the Apple ID creation page.
    • Select Turkey as the country during the setup process.
    • Use a fake address generator to generate a Turkish address.
  2. Skip Adding Payment Details:
    • Do not add any payment information during the creation of your new Apple ID.
  3. Log Out of Your Original Apple ID:
    • On your device, log out of your current Apple ID in the App Store.
  4. Log In with Your New Turkish Apple ID:
    • Sign in to the App Store using the newly created Turkish Apple ID.
  5. Purchase a Turkish iTunes Gift Card:
    • Buy an iTunes gift card that is valid in Turkey. This can be done online from various gift card providers.
  6. Redeem the Gift Card:
    • In the App Store, go to your account settings and redeem the gift card to add TRY (Turkish Lira) to your Apple ID balance.
  7. Set Your Network Location to Turkey:
    • Use a VPN to change your network location to Turkey
  8. Open the YouTube App:
    • On your phone, open the YouTube app.
  9. Purchase YouTube Premium:
    • Navigate to Purchases and Memberships within the app and subscribe to YouTube Premium.
  10. Enjoy Your Subscription:
  • Once the subscription is active, you can enjoy YouTube Premium without the transaction error.

Good luck friends!

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Thank you!

Sincerely, YouTube Engineering

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just got kicked out from Ukraine and this solution works. Now me and my family are moved to Turkey within 10 mins.
Thank you so much!

Btw, Seems VPN is not required for enable the subscription on Youtube App via IAP. I got success with my VPN disabled

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Can I log back into my original Apple ID after completing these steps and still use YouTube premium?

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Now how to avoid apples 30 percent increase

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If I buy Turkish youtube premium family plan can’t I then register my current google account as one of the family members so I can keep using that. Not a new account. I have a lot of saved stuff and playlists on youtube. I’m currently registered in Ukraine and living in Iceland but youtube is closing the premium in a few days for me.

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this only works with apple ID right?

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Just tried this method with India, works flawlessly, currently paying 4.40 Euros a month for a family plan, will let you guys know if this shit gets detected!

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During apple id registration, it asked for a phone number (to enable MFA to the account).

I entered AU mobile number and the code is received fine over SMS

But when entered the MFA number to the Apple website, it does nothing? just ‘stuck’ there…

Did anyone else experience this?

Thanks

Update: I originally used Brave browser, and I changed it to Chrome incognito and it works…

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awesome, it worked man! thanks a lot

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lads , Is it possible to use the same apple id to pay for different YouTube accounts?

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It works still

for anyone getting this error when joining the family “it looks like you’re not in the same country as the person who invited you”

Follow the steps below

  1. go to “payments DOT google DOT com”, login
  2. remove any option listen in “payment methods” Tab
  3. Navigate to “settings” and make a new payment profile in turkey with with an address.
  4. delete previous payment profile ( wait till you get confirmation email that your profile was deleted)
  5. use VPN from turkey THEN click join family from invite email
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I swear by this method: just gave it a spin and it works! Some additional notes from my end:

  • Step 7 (the one with VPN) is not necessary: I was using my regular internet connection from Europe, no issue at all
  • You might get a warning that “[this] Apple account has not yet been used in the iTunes Store”. If that’s the case, simply follow the steps and use a random Turkish address you find on Google Maps. I used one from Antalya. You can use any non-Turkish phone number, YT doesn’t perform any checks on that.

To address some concerns:

  • Switching to a different app store account didn’t remove my apps or iCloud account or any iCloud-related data (photos, videos, files, etc.)
  • You will need to have an email that is not currently registered in your current iCloud account (you may have one or more email accounts associated with it, none of them can be re-used): I happen to have an alternate gmail account that I could pick from
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Any method of doing it through android device

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Can confirm this does work. You can enter any phone number (you need to receive an sms one time) at both points of registration and you don’t need vpn. YouTube’s greed is just obscene at this point. They are raising the prices across the board, in every country, then add triple amount of ads, whole screen ads, back to back ads, micro ads, and all of them are obnoxious and terrible, sometimes straight up bizarre, bright and loud, basically forcing you to either subscribe or use addons.

It would’ve been fine if I only used youtube on pc, and I wouldn’t care at all about buying it, but I have an iphone, which means I can’t use any replacement apps, or ad blockers, so I get 3 quadrillion of ads if I try to watch youtube, and can’t keep playing videos when locking the phone.

I don’t even mind paying, but… 11-13 euros for a family sub? Really? It’s not even their content, they are doing nothing apart from keeping servers and racking in billions from advertising, while making the platform worse every year, and yet they expect me to give them streaming money? Just no. As soon as I get rid of iphones - they are not getting anything from me anymore.

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when I use up added gift card balance, do i need to do same procedure such as buying gift card?

or can i add the balance by using my credit card on settings?

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Thanks so much. It just worked for me. I used Indian account and gift card as it’s cheaper than Turkish

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What’s Turkey’s price for premium?

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does the gift card trick work for google playstore too?

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Yessus, it worked! Thanks OP! After whole day of fighting with different VPNs and countries finally settled with this Turkish Family Subscription. Now it seems like I just need to top up this turkish apple wallet with gift cards :slight_smile: