Dr Paris (he/him)Dec 13

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

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 …

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Show threadDr Paris (he/him)Dec 13

it's on the orange site if you can spare an upvote too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114

Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help | Hacker News

Show threadCharlie McHenry
@parisba They did this to me as well a few years back…then essentially denied me access to about $1,000 worth of music I had downloaded for my (back then) iPad. Not amount of conversation, emails, or social media posts remedied the situation. They won, I lost. Good luck. HN just might do it.
Dec 13 at 7:44pmWeb
Show threadScott Williams 🐧Dec 13
@CharlieMcHenry @parisba I also had a pre-email account. Someone got my password and changed it and Apple support said they couldn't recover it since their support tools required username to be email so they just apologized and I was out of luck. I lost my iTunes library. I'm not an apple user in general anymore, but that helped solidify that I wouldn't be returning.