Music and Media account locked with no explanation, no Apple Support recourse.
Well, what happened to Paris Buttfield-Addison happened to me. I have been locked out of my Media and Subscriptions account, which effectively means I cannot purchase apps, make in app purchases, listen to music through Apple Music, or access any of the content I purchased through Apple in the past twenty years (and it is a lot). Worse still, contacting Apple Support has been useless—I escalated the situation to Ashad, who is a Senior Apple Support representative, and he told me he could not escalate it any further within the support team, though he was able to send it to a review team (who undoubtedly will give me the same answer as before). At no point have they given me a reason why my account was locked, and I can't think of anything I did to get the account locked. Their proposed solution was for me to create a new Apple Account, which is an insulting suggestion. I would rather move to Android/Windows if I have to start over.
My question is whether anyone else in this position (and I'm sure there are many) was able to get a satisfactory resolution to this problem. Who could you contact beyond Apple Support?
For what it's worth, I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max running iOS 26.2, an iPad Pro running iOS 26.2, and a MacBook Pro M1 Max running Sequoia 15.6.1.
iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 26