How to fix an ‘Apple ID has not yet been used with the App Store’ error

Your Apple ID may need
to be primed to proceed.

Apple has made Apple ID the pivot point around which all
purchases and synchronization occurs across its stores, iCloud, and
your devices. But what to do when you set up a new Apple ID for
yourself or are helping someone else, and you see the error in
macOS, This Apple ID has not yet been used with the App Store?

That prompt should also come with a pair of buttons: Cancel and
Review. Click Review and you should be presented with
terms and conditions you can read through and click to agree with.
You may also be prompted to enter or confirm payment and other
information.

However, some readers report that macOS stalls at this point.
Here are a few tricks that work:

• Click Review repeatedly. Some people have only had a
  response after a second or subsequent click.
• Try to download a free app at the Mac App Store.
• Log in at appleid.apple.com and make sure you have payment
  information stored there.
• Launch Music or iTunes and attempt to sign in with the Apple
  ID. This provides a different route that may complete successfully.
  Because Apple uses the same information across its stores, that
  should resolve the App Store issue.

This Mac 911 article is in response to a question submitted
by Macworld reader Daniela.

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