Buy an App Store & iTunes Gift Card for China

The China App Store & iTunes gift card is sold here as a code in yuan: 7 face values, 20 through 1,000, delivered to the order page and inbox minutes after payment. It redeems into Apple Account balance, which is what the App Store, iTunes Store, Apple Books and Apple's subscription services charge against. Redeeming takes a couple of minutes, and the card has to match the account's country or region.

Face Values on This Page

The ladder as the listing shows it: 20 yuan at the bottom, 1,000 at the top, 7 steps between.

• 20 yuan
• 30 yuan
• 50 yuan
• 68 yuan
• 100 yuan
• 500 yuan
• 1,000 yuan

Seven steps, 20 to 1,000 yuan, including an unusual 68 yuan step that sits between 50 and 100 for a purchase that lands between the round numbers.

Read the ladder from the bottom up: the low steps cover a single purchase, the middle a month or two of subscriptions, and the top a balance meant to sit on the account.

Which Country This Card Is For

China is priced in yuan and this is the only listing in the family denominated that way, so it stands alone among the dollar, euro and yen listings around it. Apple issues the code for the Chinese storefront, and redemption follows it: the code is accepted on an Apple Account whose country or region is China and refused on any other.

The message that decides everything here is the one Apple documents as Code must be redeemed in a different country or region — a code bought for one storefront is not spendable on another, and Apple's own example is a card bought in France refusing to redeem in the United States.

What the Balance Pays For

• App Store apps, games and in-app purchases.
• iTunes Store content, the Apple TV app and Apple Books.
• Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple TV and in-app subscriptions.
• iCloud+.

Apple excludes two things outright: the balance cannot send gifts or gift cards, and nobody else in a Family Sharing group can spend it.

How to Redeem

1. Find the 16-digit code that begins with X — on a physical card it sits under the peel-off or scratch-off label.
2. Open the App Store, tap your photo, your initials or the My Account button, then tap Redeem Code. You may be asked to sign in.
3. Tap Use Camera, or Enter Code Manually if the camera will not read the code. On a Mac, click your name in the App Store sidebar and choose Redeem Code.
4. Confirm and tap or click Redeem — the balance lands on your Apple Account and shows in your account details.

Delivery

Delivery is digital and automatic — the code lands on the order page and in your inbox minutes after payment clears, with no plastic card in the post, for the Chinese App Store in yuan. If it does not behave as described, contact live chat with the order number and the on-screen message.

Before You Buy

• The account's country or region has to be China, because Apple checks the storefront at redemption.
• A gift card cannot be redeemed outside the country or region of purchase — that is Apple's rule, not ours.
• If Apple answers that the card has already been redeemed, sign out of the App Store on all devices and sign back in to refresh the balance view.
• If it answers that the card is not activated, the code was not activated by the seller — that is a retailer problem, not an account problem.

Two points from Apple that apply whatever value is chosen: the code to redeem is the 16-digit number beginning with X rather than any other figure on the card, and gift cards are not available in every country or region, so the storefront match is what makes a code usable at all.

Buy an App Store & iTunes Gift Card for China

For an Apple Account set to China, this is the listing to order from. GameGiftHub lists the 7-value ladder above and delivers the code minutes after payment. Order the App Store & iTunes gift card for China now, or compare it with the Germany listing or the Spain listing if you are buying for a different storefront.