Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️
Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID.
I am writing this as a desperate measure.
I just wanted to say that switching to another big company isn’t solution. And even though they do not have such huge proportion of hardware devices, many people use Google or Amazon (or similar) to sign into many services or devices like security cameras, smart locks. And this really huge problem, when one company could lock you out of everything for no real reason. It should be much more regulated.