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). ❤️ Update 14 December 2025: Someone from Executive Relations at Apple says they’re looking into it.

A large department store sold someone an apple gift card that was likely stolen/already redeemed, apple responded by permanently closing his apple account, bricking his devices and causing him to lose access to 20 years of saved media in iCloud

Edit: in the FAQ section he says that he has backups so that’s good. Main damage is that all of his apple devices are tied to the deleted account and won’t work anymore

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 days ago

    for the savings from not buying an iphone for ine iteration of their development cycle (where they remove features and call it streamlining), one could self host their own redundant media storage and probably buy a much-better-than-iphone digital camera.

    it is insane to me how expensive these devices are compared to actual cool shit that isn’t made for nana to easily get scam emails and robocalls.