Locked Out of Apple Developer Accounts
In the past 24 hours I’ve heard of four different developers who have been entirely locked out of their Apple Developer accounts for seemingly no reason whatsoever, with no help from support and no apparent way to escalate.
No idea what’s going on, but this for sure does not seem good.
Last year I had my developer account labeled as inactive in spite of it being paid at the time. It wouldn’t give me the option to reactivate it because it was paid in full. I eventually just let it lapse and now I don’t publish anything on Apple platforms. 😅
I’m a developer who was locked out of my developer account, btw. I can’t log in or reset my password.
It happened to me last year. After a bunch of one way communication it was suddenly restored. No explanation.
Previously:
- Our Changing Relationship With Apple
- 2024 Six Colors Apple Report Card
- Digital Will Sues Apple Over Developer Account Termination
- Developer Account In Limbo Due to Popularity
- Apple Accounts “Permanently” Blocked
- Student’s Developer Account Mistakenly Terminated
- Another Developer Account Nearly Terminated
- Epic Barred From “Sign in With Apple”
- Developer Accounts Nearly Terminated
- Apple to Cut Epic Off From iOS and Mac Developer Tools
- Guilherme Rambo Locked Out of Apple Developer Account
- Apple Removed Dash From the Mac App Store
Update (2025-04-10): Dave DeLong:
I’m happy to report that everyone I’ve heard about has managed to regain access to their accounts. Kudos to the folks in WWDR who helped them through the hoops to make that happen. 👏
And shame on whatever caused this to happen on the first place.
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The same here (I could not login) and after months requesting including phone calls I could login my account. Really frustrating.
For reasons like this I'm avoiding being reliant on any major tech company for earning a living, especially Apple given that they are actively hostile towards their own third party developers. I do make some free mac apps, but I don't strictly *need* to notarize them. In fact, I hate notarizing them, because I feel like a chump every time I do it.
