I set up a dedicated Apple Account a little over a week ago so that I could isolate all of my developer stuff from my personal Apple Account. I jumped right in to the Apple Developer Program enrollment process, submitted my application, paid my fee, and got the acceptance email. However, started running into a bunch of weird error messages when trying to deploy my app. Figured I had done something wrong, so wiped as much as I could and started over. Then kept getting blocked when trying to log in to my Apple Account. “Apple Account has been locked and can’t be used.” Shouldn’t be a big deal to fix, I thought. Boy, was I wrong.
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