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[iOS] YouTube Premium Family Plan Monthly TRY₺209.99 (~A$9.35) @ YouTube App via Turgame Gift Card

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Hi OzBargainers!

Hope you are well and i promise this is not wirtten by ChatGPT (wink).

So, if you're a YouTube Premium user , you might've noticed things getting a little… sketchy lately. Like, one minute you're streaming without a care in the world, and the next, you’re about to pay $40 aud per month or lose all your Premium perks and don’t even want to think about downloading some random app from the dark side of the internet. Well, don't worry – I’ve got something that might just save you from the abyss!

Inspired by This post from RebeccaSkittles who helped me obain a Disney+ plan (I believe it still works albeit it says expired). The method also seems to work for YouTube Premium, so you might just save your membership from going the way of the dodo!

Also adding the following from the comment which is something I wasn’t aware:
@KangaDrew-
Shout outs to @PriceBeat who posted a huge thread of cheaper iOS apps back in Aug 2022 and @ISmellPennies who created the father of all guides in Oct 2022 (not forgetting to mention his Netflix guide of course).

How to Redeem

  • Create a Turkey Apple ID: When creating your Apple ID, ensure that your region is set to Turkey to ensure compatibility with this deal. For the smoothest experience, use an Apple device with Safari as your browser. If the creation process encounters errors, try again on another device. Problems may occur on other browsers for reasons unknown. Create your Turkey Apple ID at appleid.apple.com.

  • Once Registered, go to Settings - click your name on top - select Payment & Delivery or Subscription to make sure you can keep you main apple account signed in but using the new turkey apple ID to sign in for subscriptions and/or payment.

  • Purchase Apple Gift Cards: Visit turgame.com(https://turgame.com) to purchase Apple gift cards in Turkey. Please note that it may take up to 20 minutes for your gift card to appear after purchase. Additionally, you might not need to complete the verification process. Simply view your order, and if no action is required, check your banking app to confirm if you've been charged. If you have been charged, your card is on its way. If not, or if you encounter any issues, contact their support at support.turgame.com(support.turgame.com). I had a 20mins and a 3hours procceing time for two different transaction.

  • Once you got them go to Apple store click on the upper right corner then redeem gift card or code, enter your gift card code and redeem you Turkish lira credit

  • Open YouTube on your phone make sure you signin with the account you want to set up for family plan. click your profile icon "you" down the bottom right and then select youtube premium membership, then there is a line of blue word i remember saying sign up family plan and follow the promp to complete set up.

Important Notes:

  • No VPN is needed to access this deal. Simply create a Turkey Apple ID and purchase Apple gift cards from turgame.com to take advantage of these incredible savings.
  • When redeeming the gift card in the App Store, ensure that you have an address handy. You'll only need to log out of the iTunes and App Store Apple ID, not your main one. This allows you to switch between accounts without interrupting subscriptions or payments.
    Known Issues and Tips.
  • Differnt from Disney+, you can only set up monthly payment for YT Premium so make sure you check your account regularly for balance.
  • Heard the same method applies to India with a cheaper price ($5 per month) but i dont know a place to purchase India Itunes gift card.

Hope it helps and enjoy your subscription, and happy streaming and subscribe to PewDiePie!

Disclaimer: Please note that the effectiveness of the workaround methods may vary, and it's always a good idea to ensure you have sufficient funds in your account before attempting the subscription purchase. Prices mentioned are subject to change and may vary based on currency conversion rates. Please verify current prices before making a purchase.

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Comments

      • they are after your photo/name/address(?) - not DOB, ID number, etc

        so feel free to redact as you see fit

      • Cancel the order and buy from G2A.com

    • I ended up going through the validation process, still haven't received the itunes voucher. Might have to email their support.

    • Was in the same situation. Submitted a ticket to customer support saying I'd rather have my order cancelled than send them my ID…got my gift card 4 hours later. That said, G2A is far cheaper, so I'll probably just buy from there next time.

      • Interesting, on Turgame it cost me $11.57AUD, on G2A it cost $13AUD.
        Can you share the seller you purchased from?

        • Yeah same I found the Turgame several AU$ less than G2A. However I too got stung with the "verify your ID" crap and no way I'm sending them my ID

    • Got the voucher about 20 minutes after I raised a ticket.

  • Can you also do this for a individual account rather than family?

    • Yep. That’s my plan. Just gotta wait for my current sub to expire.

    • I can't think of why not. Been told mine will expire in mid Dec unless I got local form of payment method in Pakistan.

      So will wait until few days before expiring to try this out.

    • Yep, just did that! Costs ~₺104.99 per month.

  • -2

    Can have it free with Firefox with adblocker ok mobile.

  • +2

    I got YT premium from Reddit for $30 last year for 1 year, he added me to a family, made a new account with Indian addresss. Renewed it from the same guy for $30 last week

    • Which sub?

  • +1

    Currently with Argentina which is due to expire mid Dec, they cancelled my renewal as I got the dreaded email.

    Just turned on my VPN to Turkey, went into YouTube mobile app, have the following options;

    • Individual monthly for TRY 79.99
    • Individual annual for TRY 799.99
    • Family monthly for TRY 159.99 (btw why did OP say 209.99?)

    If I just wanted an individual plan, could I just do an annual renewal direct in the mobile app using a debit/credit card instead of steps mentioned in OP?

    • My family price is 209TRY.

    • +2

      209TRY because of Apple tax

    • Yes you could if they allowed it. But based on email I got and others it seems they have restricted it to just local form of payment. Unless of course you have a Turkish credit card?

      • But if I pay annually then I'm covered for the whole year?

        • Yes

    • +1

      The 159.99 TRY is if you sign up directly with YT Turkey. The risk of doing that is that they may cancel your service like with Argentina.

      The 209.99 TRY is if you go through the Apple Store as described in the post, which appears to be the cancel-proof method for now.

    • Tried doing this, showed the prices but when I clicked through it said it couldn't verify my country and that I needed to contact the help centre.

    • Which VPN are you using to get to Turkey?

  • Why am I seeing different prices to everyone else? For India, I have;

    • Individual monthly for INR 159
    • Individual 3 months for INR 459
    • Individual 12 months for INR 1490
    • Family monthly for INR 299
    • +1

      your price is buy directly from youtube without apple tax

      • Why not just do a VPN to India and sign up for the whole year directly? Cheaper and covered for the whole year.

        This of course still runs the risk of being cancelled by YT during the year if a local payment method wasn't used.

        • it asks a india caed to pay. I don't have an india card. I tried vpn method it went to the payment step. and I also tried to get an india card but no luck.

          • +2

            @RichardF89: Thanks, you're right. Payment declined because not from the same country.

            Just did the Apple ID way and gift card from Amazon IN method.

  • YEAH WE'RE BACK, BABY! Not quite the $6 I was getting directly with Google Turkish payment profile, but honestly $10 for Premium Family is still not all that bad at all. It should unlock a bunch of other cheaper rates for Apple-based subs as well, so pretty keen to check those out if there are any I should be keeping a close eye on???

  • Just confirming there's no option to sign up for an annual plan? I'm only getting Individual and Family both billed on a per month basis?

    • There is no annual plan. At least I also did not see the option myself. So I load up my Turkey Apple ID account with 2500 and that should cover me for 1 year until Google "adjust" their price again.

    • -1

      There's an option to pay for individual annual plan if you subscribe direct within the YT mobile app, only monthly for Family plan. For both India and Turkey.

      I am planning to get to India via VPN then sign up direct for the whole year.

  • +1

    Sorry but I don’t understand how I can make this happen:

    Once Registered, go to Settings - click your name on top - select Payment & Delivery or Subscription to make sure you can keep you main apple account signed in but using the new turkey apple ID to sign in for subscriptions and/or payment.

    Am I the only one that doesn’t understand this paragraph? Do I have to log out from my ICloud to make this happen?

    • +2

      Update: Just log out of the App Store app on your iphone, by opening it, taling on yor profile and scrolling down until finding the option there

      • +1

        Does that only sign you out of the app store or out of the whole Apple account on your phone.

        (You were most definitely not the only one confused by the paragraph BTW)

        • Also confused by this wording. But this only signs you out of the App Store.

  • When I tried to get a Turkey Apple ID, it asked for a mobile number. So I tried the method with my existing India ID. It worked and it's cheaper $7.34

    • Where are you getting Indian gift cards from?

      • India

  • Thank you a heap OP. Finally can again get rid of Ads when playing videos to kids.
    For whom has problems with phone number when creating apple ID, try to use safari on the phone rather than Mac.

  • -1

    my old iPhone6 doesn't work as it can't install youtube anymore. I use my ipad it works fine now. question is can I change back to my main apple id?

    • yes. just need to top up your apple balance from time to time

  • Wow this worked. Missed Youtube Premium for the last 2 months after old subscription got cancelled. Family so happy again!

  • +1

    For those with cryptocurrencies, I use https://www.bitrefill.com to buy the Turkish Apple gift cards

  • Oops I meant edit. Once it is setup do I need to keep my “media and purchases” logged into TRY or can I changed back to normal AU?

    • +1

      Change it back if you want. You’ll only need to be logged in to the Turkish account to add more funds to it.

  • I read a comment somewhere saying to use ukraine instead of india as they don't require a local payment method

    • Not true, my Ukrainian sub got terminated

  • Just wondering does YouTube subscription include YouTube music subscription in Turkey? It was included in Argentina.

    • Yes it does

  • I did all of the steps but when I go into YouTube

    Open YouTube on your phone make sure you signin with the account you want to set up for family plan. click your profile icon "you" down the bottom right and then select youtube premium membership, then there is a line of blue word i remember saying sign up family plan and follow the promp to complete set up.

    I've canceled my membership but there is no "Premium Membership" button only "Your Premium Benefits". Which I suspect is because my membership doesn't end until 12/12. When I click the "Benefits" button I get "Manage your membership" which then display "YouTube Premium" button which then displays "Family Membership" A$42.99/month. Then finally when I select that I get this error:

    "While requested product is available in Australia you need to purchase from Turkey since your iTunes Store account is set to Turkey"

    I've changing my Profile Address, Billing Address, Channel Address and Home Address to my new house in Turkey :) but this doesn't appear to make any difference. I've also deleted the YouTube app profile and re-logged in to clear any caches with no luck so far.

    I'll will give it until the 12/12 to propagate my Google persona location and wait for the premium offer to move from renew to purchase and let you know what happens. If anyone has any additional ideas please let me know. Thanks.

    • if you are on iOS, make sure you change your ios iTune app store login to your newly created turkey apple account first. Then try again in yt apps, it should work, I forfeit one month of Pak membership by switching to Tur befoe my membership expiry date.

      • Same, error, doesn't work, probably going to wait for my current sub to expired before attempting this.

    • Was getting same error. What seemed to work in the end was either restarting or setting phone region to India EN and restarting. India VPN / sign out etc weren't helping

    • Getting the same. Tried all the suggestions below. Has anyone bypassed this problem?

    • I have the same issue could it be due to running an older ipad Mini 2 with iOS 12.5.7 so Youtube reported I can't download the 'current/lastest' version as it needs iOS 15, App store installed an older version of Youtube… Could you be in the same boat and might be the cause?

      When trying to sign up I also get family plan $42.99/month

      "While requested product is available in Australia you need to purchase from India since your iTunes Store account is set to India"

      • UPDATE: Confirmed the issue seems to be the older ipad/iOS does not seem to work with this deal.. I got hold of an iphone 6s and was able to login and complete the purchase as it was able to run the latest version of the Youtube app…

  • Anyone else’s family getting hit with the “Can’t join family group - it looks like you’re not in the same country as the person that invited you”? Anyone know the work around?

    • +1

      Have to create the family group before subscribing

      • +2

        Is there anyway to workaround it? Trying to add a family member after subscribing and hit by the error….

        • If they change their region to Turkey, does it work?

  • This possible without owning an iPhone?

    • +2

      you'll need some sort of apple device

      the OP should prob update that you can not use this method without an apple device

      • Has anyone been able to figure out a way to do this with just a Macbook? or does it need to be an iOS device?

        • Also wondering about this. Feels like it isn't possible?

      • title got [ios] on it mate, unfortunately, this works via IOS app store only

  • Any deals similar with this method for Netflix or Spotify?

  • Thanks. Followed the steps and it worked.

  • “ Once Registered, go to Settings ”, can you explain go to setting of which? New Apple ID on browser, or App Store, or existing of any?

  • If we're just using Apple ID, any reason for using Turkey and not India?

    • For rich people

  • Got it working in the end for me and the missus, thanks OP

  • What phone number are you all putting in when it asks for a phone number for 2FA?

    Edit: Nevermind. I can use my aussie number. This isn't like trying to sign-up for Youtube India through Google and trying to use local phone and address. Not Turkiye but India and it WORKS! THANKS!!!

  • I have sufficient balance but it asks me for credit card? Why?

  • As someone who has no Apple products in house and doesn't intend to pay full price, can someone sell me a premium slot in their family? I promise I am not like your real family members 😘

  • +7

    After half day of trying I finally got it working thanks to this post. Listing couple of time consuming problems during my attempts which hopefully might save someone a minute or two:
    1, When I signed up Turkish Apple ID I put in my AU phone number to receive verification. I used the one associated with my main AU Apple ID, first couple attempts failed, but at the end it allowed me to finish verification. Read from another post that you can try to add or remove the leading 0 to make it work.
    2, From another post someone mentioned you can sign up via Apple Music without a phone number. While it did allow me to sign up, eventually I was asked to provide a phone number before redeeming gift card, which stopped me from proceeding. So I will say sorting out the phone number verification is more important than just signing up an account.
    3, I used an old iphone to login the Apple ID and the following. I have no idea how to keep the existing Apple account signed in but using the new turkey apple ID to sign in for subscriptions and/or payment as it not stated anywhere.
    4, When turning on your old iphone, remember to update your YouTube app first, older version might not work. On my attempt it asked for my OLD Apple ID credential on App Store to update my YouTube app. So better update before proceeding to the next step which is signing in the Turkish Apple ID.
    5, As I am an existing Turkish YouTube Premium subscriber using Australian credit card as payment method, the first thing I need to do is CANCEL my existing subscription. The membership will last until the circle ends. At the start I was unable to grasp the difference between credit card payment and Apple Account payment. Now I realize that the former is managed by YouTube/Google directly and we can cancel/pause/renew via the app or webpage, the later is managed via App Store, cancel/pause/renew are done via App Store. The approach this post is discussing is the later one, which is more expensive (TRY209.99) than the other approach (TRY159.99) but thats only a small premium in order to keep the benefits. Also when you cancel and renew, your unused days in your circle will be wasted, so time your renewal better.
    6, Purchasing from Turgame and loading balance to the new Apple account are straight forward. I used my AU credit card to purchase the TRY gift card without problem. If you can't load balance to your account, try to do it on an old phone or ipad. I will also suggest leaving this step last to minimise protential loss. I bought the gift card before other steps, during my attempts there are multiple occasions that I wanted to give up so badly because of the frustration caused by the unexpected hiccups. If you are a person who will lose patience easily, DO NOT buy gift card until you finish other steps.
    7, VPN is not needed through out the whole process.

    • The Apple Music signup method is a godsend!
      I've been unable to create a new AppleID (trying to get more AppleTV+ trials) for more than 12 months now, but no issue going through Apple Music!

    • .2, From another post someone mentioned you can sign up via Apple Music without a phone number. While it did allow me to sign up, eventually I was asked to provide a phone number before redeeming gift card, which stopped me from proceeding. So I will say sorting out the phone number verification is more important than just signing up an account.

      This is exactly what happened after 1 month with me and YouTube premium. It asks for a phone number before redeeming gift card.

      • I was able to use my normal AU number for this verification step.

        • Now my NBA league pass is not working either. I think they’re cracking down.

    • I didn't follow entirely your method here but just want to say - similar to you - this thing took me almost half a day of trying too (using bits and pieces from multiple peoples comments including yours) and I appreciated your words of encouragement in your Step 6. Thanks! I found the whole process frustrating and wanted to give up too but I did read what you wrote.

  • Sorry can I please get some help. Relatively new to all of this and to iOS. I have done the following
    1. Created a new appleid with Turkey region. This is on the iPad using Safari.
    2. Have bought the giftcard and it is ready to redeem.

    This is the part I am getting confused with "Once Registered, go to Settings - click your name on top - select Payment & Delivery or Subscription to make sure you can keep you main apple account signed in but using the new turkey apple ID to sign in for subscriptions and/or payment."

    So on my ipad I am signed into my AU main appleid. If I go to Settings this the profile I am seeing.
    In Safari I am signed into the Turkish appleid.
    If I go to the iPad Settings -> Payments, it still shows the details from my AU main appleid.

    I presume I am meant to somehow redeem the gift card into my Turkish appleid. How do I proceed to do this?

    • Someone asked a similar question. Does this help?
      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/15972321/redir

    • +1

      I was in your shoes yesterday but I changed to my Turkish AppleID. I guess once you successfully subscribe using your Turkish AppleID balance, you can switch it back to your AU one.

  • If I buy family membership, can i sell or share my account with others who are not living with me

    • Yes you can

  • +1

    Manage to get the Family Subscription working and the key is to 1) Create App Store account in Turkey and recharge it with gift card 2) Use iPhone or iPad Youtube Apps to open Youtube to subscribe to Premium account as this will allow you to pay using App Store Credit. If you have existing Youtube Premium account in other Countries, you can safely cancel the Perineum account first (your youtube premium account will last until the end of the subscription date) before subscribing using this method. Thanks

  • While a bit fiddly to get the apple account made it worked best by signing up via the Apple Music website. Had to enter my 2fa number about three times before it decided that was fine.
    Once this bit was done the rest was simple enough :)

  • does turgame send confirmation email?

    • +1

      They do. I found that I had to do an authentication step to complete my transaction. There is nothing really indicating that this is required outside of a company logo on you orders page (sorry I can't recall the name, possibly something Trust?)

      I had to upload photo ID etc.

      • Are people really uploading their Photo ID to some Turkish website??? No way I'd be happy doing that. Legitimate Western countries have a hard enough time trying to keep our data from floating on the dark web, I just can't justify voluntarily giving it to some Turkish company

  • By the way, has anyone had any luck just adding a credit or debit card directly to their Turkish Apple ID account rather than using gift cards?

    • Haven't tried but wouldn't bother in case Apple cracks down on it. It's easy enough to load up the Apple account with gift cards to last a year and just do an annual top up.

  • Can you do multiple YouTube family accounts under one Apple ID ?

  • It seems like older iOS 12 with older YouTube App don't work, you'll have to use it on the recent YouTube app.

  • Has anyone found that once you go through this process, you can't get a lot of the apps anymore because they aren't available in the Turkish app store?

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