Apple ID verification link doesn't work—what now?

Apple seriously needs to fire the whole Apple ID management team. This scheme is a major clusterf*ck.

Holy cow I thought it was me or my computer. Anybody have an answer to this? I spent time at the Apple Story yesterday and they gave me the instructions to change my password and it would work. now i have this verification issue and when i called applecare they want to charge me $29 to help.

After days of spinning my wheels and getting no help from Apple, my problem turned out to be that in my two Apple IDs, one of them used the other's primary email address as its alternate email address. Apparently Apple can't detect this and can't handle this.

So the solution for me was to delete that alternate email address and make each Apple ID have only a single primary address.

Of course the solution EVERYONE wants is to merge all of your Apple IDs into a single entity and have apple enforce a single Apple ID per user. The last thing I need is to have to remember which one I used for iTunes, which one for iCloud, which on for the developer program, which one for iChat, etc., etc., etc.

Thanks for the tip. I also could not access the link as it was missing in the text of the e-mail. I then forwarded the e-mail to my work e-mail and still have the same problem - no link appears. I am not familiar with other e-mail programs available on my computer. I essentially need to set-up another e-mail account and see if that works, correct?

This actually is a simple issue to resolve, all you need to do is forward the verification email to a different email account that does not have such high security settings such as Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc... and click on the verification link from there.

Keep in mind some email providers will scamble the link when forwarding as well (usually government emails). So if this doesn't work you may need to change your email address associated with your AppleID by visiting id.apple.com and singing in to manage your account.

This issue is caused by your e-mail provider, not Apple. Certain e-mail providers choose to block links from opening that they detect as a security threat. Some of the more secure accounts such as work email, school email, etc... have such high security settings that they block any links that would allow you to change account information... including AppleID. Apple has no control over this, if you want to see it changed contact your e-mail provider.

I'll keep it short.

I opened the email on an email client (Mozilla Thunderbird) and that fixed the problem.

Hope you have the same results... 😕

I'm using hotmail and having the same issue.. So its not what provider you use :/

When I go to verify my address it says Could Not Verify Address

We apologize but we are unable to verify the link you are using to access this page. What do I do to get apps

I can't get no games or anything on my phone with out verifying it first .But it says that I can't verify my ad

i have the same problem, but i try unlocking my account using questions, and it work, hope this can help