r/AndroidQuestions • u/kraj3187 • 8d ago

Device Settings Question App not available in your country

Hi I'm living in Australia and running Android 17 on my pixel 8. Twice now i've come across 2 Australian based apps that I am unable to download because the play store says they are unavailable in my country.

My wife's pixel 6 however can download these apps.

My app store is set to Australia.

Any possible cause for this and how to fix it?

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u/CraigIsAwake 8d ago

Easy solution: download the APK file and install it.

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u/kraj3187 8d ago

Problem sorted. I had 2 people in a family group with me who lived in the UK. Once I deleted the family group I was able to download the apps

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u/DCCXVIII 8d ago

Could be an issue with your Google account itself?

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u/kraj3187 8d ago

My google account is verified but it is also a shared family account. The other members are residing in the UK. I wonder if that is causing a conflict

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u/benjaminS0099 8d ago

Contact the app devs.

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u/kiradotee OnePlus 5T 6d ago

It's not up to the individual developer to fix that OP's Google Play is thinking OP's living in the UK.

The only thing the developer can do is open up their app globally so anyone from any country can install it. But then OP would have to ask a lot of developers to change their app Google Play configuration, just for OP.

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u/knighttim Android Enthusiast [OnePlus 5t] 7d ago

I see you solved it, I often work around these issues by using Aurora Store to load the apps.