While installing new app prompting for Apple Id & Password

Question

Hi,
Can someone help me out, I have created a new apple id and trying to install new apps(Games), it prompting for apple id & password. When I provide credentials pop up the following message "This Apple id hasn't used in iTunes store yet" .
What should I do now? Help is much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

There is no fee for creating an iTunes or App Store account.  But, before you can download anything from the store, you need to associate your AppleID with a store account, which needs to include payment information.  You are only charged anything if or when you download a for fee content item or app for the first time (re-downloads of purchased content other than audiobooks is free, as many times as you wish).
Your account will be active within moments of setting it up in iTunes, and it will work as long as your AppleID is valid (so indefinately - mine has been actice since the iTunes store first opened).
Just for clarity - an AppleID by itself is just an identifier and is used to create accounts (and subsequently log in and use) a number of Apple services.  You use an AppleID to create accounts for the iTunes and App stores, for using these forums, as well as services like iCloud, iMessage and so forth.  The AppleID is just the identification used to create the accounts, but the service accounts need to be created before they can be used.  So you need to use your AppleID to create an iTunes store account before you can start downloading content from the store.