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.
Yeah, I get that. But I just bought a used Pixel device, so I didn’t have to give any money to Google. If you are willing to go a little bit older, you can get them for relatively cheap. I bought my 7a for like 150€ and it’s still great hardware wise.