How to reduce Apple Account balance to 0 and change country?

Zero out balance

You’ll either need to spend it or if it’s not enough to purchase a product or service, you’ll need to contact Apple Support to have your account set to zero. If you’re in the US please call 1-800-MY-APPLE or outside the US, consult the support article below.

Contact Apple for support and service - Apple Support

Change your Apple ID country or region - Apple Support

Hello!

I see you want to empty your account balance. This is not something the people on this forum—other users like yourself—can do for you. You can use one of the methods below:

1) If you are trying to empty your balance and still have a valid credit or debit card from your original country, you may purchase an item from the App or iTunes Stores for more than your balance. The remainder will be billed to your card, leaving you with nothing in your account balance. This is the easiest solution (you can do it yourself!), plus you get to use your money for something for yourself instead of donating it to Apple.

2) Alternatively, you could ask Apple Support to remove and keep the balance. Use this link Apple provides to take you directly to the managing and editing an Apple Account people who will do this for you --> https://getsupport.apple.com/?caller=kbase&PGF=PGF63005&category_id=SC0998&symptom_id=20198

This is more direct than using Official Apple Support which will just eventually lead you to the same place after some searching.

If the above direct link does not work for you, go to https://getsupport.apple.com/?s=n , enter “empty balance” or “zero balance” in the search line, press enter to search, then on the next page select “Clear Apple Account balance”. On the next page select a chat or telephone call option.

Alternatively give Apple a phone call. Find a list of telephone numbers at: Contact Apple Support - Apple Support (You will need to contact Support for the country to which your account is set, but the telephone numbers are not international,)

When asking about this because you are changing regions, take a look at this article:

Change your Apple Account country or region - Apple Support

Note that in that article Apple advises, “* If you don’t want to enter a payment method, wait until you're physically in your new country or region, then create a new Apple Account.” Avoid this if at all possible! Doing this will cause a LOT of complications with your current content and could potentially also result in problems with using your hardware.

Click ▶︎ Here to request the balance on your account be reset to zero.

➢ United States: 1-800-APLCARE.

➢ Contact Support.

If you need to change your region, then click ▶︎ Change Region for step-by-step instructions.

Good luck! 👋🏼😉