A VPN app will help you to mask your location and trick the Google Play Store into believing that you are from a different physical location different from your actual location. There are a lot of Android VPN apps available which let you change your location to a different country. The only trick is figuring out which market the app or game you want to download is officially available and to mimic or spoof the location.
As part of this tutorial, I have used the Express VPN app which is a popular VPN app with options to manually or automatically connect to an optimal location. Now open the Express VPN app or the one you downloaded and then select the location where the app or game you want to install is officially available.
For this tutorial, I have used the Pandora Music app which also happens to be unavailable in my country but is officially available in the US.
Tap on storage and then select the clear data and clear cache options from the app. Now go back to the main page of the app, often the one just before where you are now, and select force stop to stop the app from running. Once you have completed the above step, on your phone search for the app you want to install on Google Play and then click on the associated Google Play Store link from the search results.
This will launch the Play Store on your device. Now the app page on the Google Play Store will be opened and you will have the option to install the app on your device even if it is not officially available at your region. Thanks for the help, VPN! If you are not willing to install a separate VPN app in order to install a region restricted app or game on your device, then you might be interested in knowing about this method.
Using this method, you can just install any region restricted app that is unavailable in your country to your device, without having to install any third party VPN app. APK is basically an Android application package which is the format used by Android for the distribution of its apps.
Sometimes, the app manufacturers will officially make the APK file of their app available for download direct from their website. Click on a search result, follow the steps, and proceed to download the APK file for the app you want to install on your device. For instance, in this example, I have tried to download and install the Pandora Music app to my device, which as previously mentioned is not officially available in my country.
Be warned, there are malicious actors out there that can modify these applications and install some nasty things on your device.
From here, just sign in to iTunes with your newly-created account. Once done, iTunes will automatically redirect you to the corresponding country's App Store. Now, sign in using your newly-created Apple ID. When you're done, just open the App Store, and you'll be able to download region-locked games! Once all the games you want are downloaded, you can log out and back into your regular Apple ID if you want. More often than not, a soft-launched app will go through numerous updates to further iron out any bugs before it's released worldwide.
In the past, this meant signing in with your spoof account, which automatically transferred you to the App Store tied to your fake account. Because of this, you had to log back into your original account to reconnect to your real country's App Store. As of iOS While you still may be prompted to sign in with your spoof account to update any outside apps, the whole step of being transferred to the App Store it's associated with has been removed.
This means that you no longer have to keep signing back into your original App Store every time you update soft-launched apps. It's important to note that this hack will only apply to free apps and games, as there's no valid payment and billing info associated with your secondary Apple ID. Your regular credit card or iTunes gift cards won't work due to regional restrictions imposed by Apple.
One way to get around this is by buying gift cards from other countries online and add them as your secondary Apple ID's payment info.
Not all apps will work properly with your device just because you tricked the Play Store into downloading them. It's still possible that strange things will happen due to the difference in screen resolution or aspect ratio, or the app may not work at all.
What apps have you downloaded using these methods? Do you have any other tips to share? Let us know in the comments below. I would like to use common apps on my Android smart TV..
But no chrome, Amazon prime video, which exist but not for me.. The button won't light up for install only cancel.. Upon investigation there is supposedly some overlay program stopping me from doing the install.. Yet I can't seem to figure out what one.. So sad!
Great information. In limited cases useful. If an app is incompatible with a device, well NordVPN customer support guy send me the link from where I downloaded the app but thank you for the explanation.
Although my device is properly rooted and all other apps that work only on rooted devices are working properly still I am getting this error when I open up the Market Helper: Error No connection to the internet. Please help me out. That's a normal situation with peaple who download the app, there are many comments like this on their website.
Actualy, i copied and pasted a comment of a user called muhammad faraz khalid. I downloaded the apx file into my computer and have my phone up, what do I do next to install it?
I tried downloading it from google drive but it says "parse error" There is a problem parsing the package. It just means the app is incompatible with your device or your Android version.
I have checked out. The only app I ever wanted that was geoblocked is Pandora, that doesn't show up in the Play Store in Canada. I'd put time and effort into "stations" Pandora needs constant nurture, keeps wandering into tops of the pops on the PC over some years, then Pandora blocked it.
Truth told, I'm rarely using it anyway any more.
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