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

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Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by Aurornis »

viraptor wrote: post #260
jasode wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It's just insane that a gift card redemption can trigger this. It's also the buying of gift cards that can get Apple accounts locked: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/r8b1lu/apple_will_pe... If enough of these horror stories are publicized, people will learn to never buy/redeem Apple gift cards because of the real possibility of account bans. - Don't give Apple gift cards to family and friends: You're potenti…

> If enough of these horror stories are publicized, people will learn to never buy/redeem Apple gift cards You'd think so. Yet, the stories of PayPal locking up payouts to surprised people keep coming every year - and people still use them.

I think tech people who read a lot of news headlines have a hard time grasping the scale of these services.

Commenters here talk about PayPal account closures as if everyone who uses the service will eventually lose their money. Now we're talking about gift cards as if everyone using gift cards will have their account locked.

These stories, while frustrating and sad, are rare occurrences. The majority of people who use these services will not have any experience like these stories you read.

To be honest, I think the average person is probably better at estimating their risk of using these services than a lot of these HN commenters.

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by venturecruelty »

ryandrake wrote: post #673
jasode wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It's just insane that a gift card redemption can trigger this. It's also the buying of gift cards that can get Apple accounts locked: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/r8b1lu/apple_will_pe... If enough of these horror stories are publicized, people will learn to never buy/redeem Apple gift cards because of the real possibility of account bans. - Don't give Apple gift cards to family and friends: You're potenti…

The "gift card" in general is an anachronism whose time has passed. They have got to go. If companies are going to consider use of gift cards as red flags (as they often are, due to their being key components in money laundering and scams), then society should just abandon them. They are worse in every way than a prepaid credit cards, and in most cases where you want to give someone a gift card, you should probably j…

It's company scrip for Boomers.

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by venturecruelty »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #556

The untapped answer is litigation. Call a lawyer and file against Apple. It may take several business days, and cost $$$$ but it will absolutely light a fire at Apple and get the attention of many-a-human. And if they ignore it, well, maybe a class action lawsuit awaits.

Waiting for all the weeping and gnashing of teeth because holding companies accountable might mean programmers have to actually care.

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by venturecruelty »

yreg wrote: post #422
amelius wrote: post #417

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I am surprised that evangelists keep thinking they are safe from the evil of big corporations.

There's no reason to presume that the author 'thinks' that.

There is if you want to blame the victim and/or work for Apple.

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by QuiEgo »

jval43 wrote: post #86
sho wrote: post #23

Wow. This is a cautionary tale. I don't think I'd be as devastated as this poor chap, but as it grew I realize I've allowed my iCloud photo library to become a single copy. How are people handling this these days? If i wanted to ensure a full backup of everything on my iCloud to a NAS, what's the best way these days? Seems like they make it difficult by design..

I run a separate Mac Mini that has the full iCloud Photos library on a massive external drive, set to "Download originals". I then rsync that filesystem to a separate Linux box. This works but you must not ever disconnect the external drive. I don't have a solution for iCloud Drive, as there wasn't a keep offline setting last time I checked. So use it only ephemerally.

Time Machine backups to a samba share on the Linux box would get you both the Photos library database and the iCloud Drive stuff. It also means you don't need to bother with the external drive.

There is a keep all files offline setting for iCloud Drive (turn off "Optimize Mac Storage" in Systems Settings).

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by venturecruelty »

HumblyTossed wrote: post #738
rvnx wrote: post #523

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Lot of arrogant people here who think they are safe and better than anybody and blame OP. It is totally normal in today’s world to depend on cloud services and reasonably difficult to do without it. In China: no WeChat you are practically dead. Here try to join meetings without account, try to send a message on WhatsApp without account, etc… a lot can go wrong very fast. What if you used your Apple account as SSO to…

> Lot of arrogant people here who think they are safe and better than anybody and blame OP. You see this a lot in the Apple "community". Apple can _never_ do wrong. Apple can _never_ make a mistake. Apple's choices are _always_ the best choices. I don't understand why people put corporations on pedestals.

Because their TC is $400,000 and they need it to justify their Bay Area mortgage. Come on, folks, follow the money.

Re: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by nullfield »

ss64 wrote: post #757

This is the same guy who had $60,000 permanently locked in his Wise account 6 months ago, that is quite a run of bad luck. https://cloudisland.nz/@parisba/114504600921948939

And now some suspicion starts setting in. Granted, someone is going to have multiple runs of “bad luck”, statistically.
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