Can I change my App Store location while traveling between two countries without getting banned?

The region of your Apple Account used for App Store purchases is your Home region where you are a resident, it is not the physical region you are in. Also, changing your region may require you to add a credit card from a bank in that region. You are billed for App Store purchases in the currency of your Home region using your valid payment methods, not the currency of the visiting region you may be located in.

As for getting banned, it is not clear what you are trying to accomplish. If the reason is to download apps/service that are not available to you in your Home region, then certainly that can be seen as fraudulent and there are restrictions on the frequency of these changes. There are several steps that may be required to change your region, including clearing out any current account balance, cancelling subscriptions, adding the payment method in the new region, and entering your new billing address. You would not want to falsify this billing address, as this is seen as your new residence and used for payment verifications.

Change your Apple Account country or region - Apple Support

Thank you for reaching out. 🤗

There are many parameters that need to be taken before changing regions because currency valuation is not the same across various regions.

If you are changing regions:

• Spend any remaining Apple Account balance: You can spend your remaining balance on the App Store, other Apple services or in some countries and regions, Apple products and accessories. If you’re not sure if you have a balance, check your Apple Account balance.
• Clear a low Apple Account balance: If your balance is less than the cost of a single item in the App Store or other Apple services, learn how to clear your balance.
• Cancel subscriptions that block a country or region change: Cancel any subscriptions that block a country or region change, then wait until the end of the subscription period. 
• Wait for pending activity to clear: Wait for any memberships, pre-orders, movie rentals or Season Passes to complete. You can cancel a pre-order. Also wait for any pending refunds from Apple to process.
• Check your Family Sharing status: If you’re a part of a Family Sharing group, you might not be able to change your country or region. Learn how to leave a Family Sharing group.
• Have a valid payment method ready: You might need to enter a valid payment method for your new country or region. 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.
• Redownload your content: Some types of content might not be available in your new country or region. Redownload your apps, music, movies, TV shows and books on any devices that you might use to play or read them in the future.
• If you need to empty your balance: Contact Apple Support to request a reset of your account balance to zero.

For full details, learn how to → Change Regions for step-by-step instructions.

Good luck! 👋🏼😉

Smiliñ 😎 Brian | Community Volunteer

You cannot simply change a single setting to change store country, it has to be done on your entire account as outlined in Change your Apple Account country or region - Apple Support As you can see from the requirements, this is no simple task.

Some have tried to get around this by creating a separate account but doing that to use the store in a country where you are not resident might violate this term:

Legal - Apple Media Services - Apple

- A. ”Our Services are available for your use in your country of residence (“Home Country”). By creating an account for use of the Services in a particular country or territory you are specifying it as your Home Country.

In addition Apple places restrictions on swapping accounts too frequently: View and remove your devices that are associated with your Apple Account for purchases - Apple Support

‘When you try to associate a device that was previously associated, you might notice a message that says, “This device is associated with another Apple Account. You cannot associate this device with another Apple Account for [number] days.” You might need to wait up to 90 days to associate the device with a different Apple Account.’

Continuing from earlier, accounts can get banned for violations of terms.

Legal - iCloud - Apple

IV A. Your Account

“Failure to provide accurate, current and complete Service Registration Data may result in the suspension and/or termination of your Account.”

VII B. Termination by Apple

“Apple may at any time, under certain circumstances and without prior notice, immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Account and/or access to the Service. Cause for such termination shall include: (a) violations of this Agreement or any other policies or guidelines that are referenced herein and/or posted on the Service;”

elliewilliamsfeet wrote:

im traveling between two countries can i change my appstore location? friend of mine said it would get me banned

I don't know that I've heard you'll get banned. What can happen is that you won't be able to change the store to another region more than once in 90 days.

It's also worth noting that if you have Apple Music, when you cancel the subscription, it clears all of your music. When you re-subscribe in a different region, you have to recreate your playlists and download any music you want to download all over again.

Hello~ That’s an interesting question… switching in between countries is not that simple. Read this…

Change your Apple Account country or region - Apple Support

~Katana-San~

"friend of mine said it would get me banned"

Apple does not tell people why accounts get banned/deleted. They just do it and tell you it was deleted. You can ask but I have yet to see anybody report here that they got told why when they asked. In general all we know is accounts get deleted for violation of terms. You therefore have to go by what Apple does say in their terms documents and what may be inferred from what is said in support articles. In another post I pointed to several possible sections.