US EditionApple Blocks Dev After Failed Gift Card Redemption
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Locked out of your Apple account? Good luck
Macworld A few months back, the Macalope was locked out of iMessage. Yeah! “The nerve” is right! It was annoying, of course, but far from the worst thing that could happen to someone, but it highlighted a frustrating blind spot in Apple’s vaunted user experience story, on which someone else has now run afoul of, with far worse consequences. For reasons the Macalope never did learn, his iMessage account was locked by Apple. In order to be reinst…
Locked Out of an Apple Account – Pixel Envy
Paris Buttfield-Addison: My Apple ID, which I have held for around 25 years (it was originally a username, before they had to be email addresses; it’s from the iTools era), has been permanently disabled. This isn’t just an email address; it is my core digital identity. It holds terabytes of family photos, my entire message history, and is the key to syncing my work across the ecosystem. […] The only recent activity on my account was a recent at…
Do you remember my boring advice on the importance of doing backups? But if you do, those that I've been doing regularly for years and you don't follow at all? Well, here's a story that will make you want to follow them once and for all (finally I hope... ^^)! Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison, is based in Australia and he's been an Apple developer for 25 years and the guy has written more than 20 books on Objective-C and Swift, and co-organizes the ol…
Game developer Paris Buttfield-Addison reported that after trying to redeem a $500 Apple gift card she bought from a major retailer, her Apple account was permanently locked without explanation, leaving her unable to access her iPhone, Mac, and other devices, as well as over 20 years of data.
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