How to shop in Apple Store Google Play without Visa MasterCard
- Mar 12
Despite the fact that Google Play and Apple Store have ceased to accept payments for applications and subscriptions from Russian bank cards, paying them from Russia is still possible by some other ways.
For App Store and iTunes Available Gift Cards with a par value of 500-3000 rubles. In some services.
The balance of the App Store and iTunes can be replenished in the applications of some banks in the "Payments" section from the bank account.
Also pay for purchases while you can from your mobile phone account. To do this, you need to bind the number in current payment settings to the account, and you can even replenish the phone account even from bank cards under sanctions.
It should be remembered that if Apple is expanding the restrictions in Russia, then the balance of the Apple ID is unlikely to be offered. However, the return of funds for the services of the company can be requested, although most likely it will have to do this to a bank account. The Google Play has the opportunity to also pay for purchases from the mobile account, use the Qiwi-wallet.
Apple no longer gives new cards to the Russian account, but this can work with the MIR payment system map, which must be co-baying with the support of Chinese UnionPay.
Also worth trying to pay the old Visa, MasterCard card, they are disconnected by the systemally depending on the bank, someone else's payments are still. And you can experience the MIR payment system card, which Apple Pay in some banks supports.
If any of the useful programs with a subscription you really need, for example, a favorite photo editor, and you use it daily, then you can think about the design of the annual subscription.
As both companies in the future will affect these payment methods is still unknown, but now they can become an alternative to no other methods of payments.
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