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.
People still mod their Apple devices?
As far as I know the modding and jailbreak community died years ago for apple.
I don’t follow closely so can’t be sure, but I’d imagine no modding scene fully dies, only shrinks after the interest peak passes.
And with how technology is moving to a problematic end, more people get bothered and try to revert course for what interests them. But as the reversion tries to win against the original course, the messier it becomes, what feels to people as if the original course is gaining traction and thus bothering more and more people which then try to reverse the course in their own niches. That considered, I’d imagine there’s always space for a modding/jailbreak scene to keep existing.