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Clear small Apple ID account balance

I want to clear my tiny balance in my account

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To empty your balance add an external payment method (e.g., a card) to buy an item (not a subscription) for more than your balance. The difference owed will be billed to your card, leaving nothing in your account.

- Payment types you can use —> https://support.apple.com/HT202631

- How to add a payment type —> https://support.apple.com/HT201266


Another way is to ask Apple to remove and retain the balance. The people responding here are Apple product customers like yourself and cannot do this for you.

- Click on the special empty-balance-request chat link at the bottom of this support article ➔ https://support.apple.com/119902#zerobalance

- General Apple support and service contact ➔ https://support.apple.com/106932 If live support options are available they will show near the bottom left. If numbers show as colored links, click on them for more options.

- With an iPhone, iPad, or Vision, you may be able to chat using the Apple Support App if it is available in your country ➔ https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-support/id1130498044


If you cannot contact Apple then the first method is the only way to empty your balance. If neither method works then you will have to create a new Apple Account when you are in the new country.


Additional changing account region support article ➔ https://support.apple.com/118283


This is a user-to-user forum. Apple staff doesn’t read or respond here. We can advise how to move forward, though.

You may contact Apple Support staff to help clear your balance, as described below:


Change your Apple Account country or region - Apple Support

If you have less store credit than the cost of a single item
If your balance is less than the cost of a single item in the App Store or other Apple services [or if you don’t want a to spend the remainder], then contact Apple Support to clear your balance.