HappyChris

Thanks DADi, If things were as easy now as they were back then! They now want my phone number for verification, not my email , hence my querying about using temporary phone numbers. Can I force them to use my email address???

I have been trying to download a (free) app from the US App Store, one I can't get here in the UK. To this end I have: signed on to a paid VPN service, signed out of iTunes on my iPad Changed my region Created a new email account with a new provider and am trying to create a new Apple ID with a kosher US address. It all fails when I get to the 'verification' bit and need a local textable phone number! I've tried sites offering temporary such numbers but they all draw no response from Apple. I've used the numbers to send test texts from another phone and they appear, as expected, on the provider's site, mimicing what would happen if Apple responded to my verification request. I'm hoping that some Gods have succeeded in doing this from outside US and and can tell me what I might have done wrong...

Though a happy owner of an 8 plus and a9.7 iPad and love their all-round finish and reliability, I really miss the fiddle-ability that is Android. Recently I went looking at new Android tablets to maybe replace my ageing/dying Nexus 10, only to be beset with memories of short support life, slow updates and quirky OEM UIs...