[kristjan]

I spent the better part of a week failing to create an Apple account using my studio domain - not even a dev account yet, just any account at all. In large part because of the "I got frozen out and can't talk to anyone" horror stories that pop up here monthly, and the fact that my personal account already needs to go through the "your account is locked" dance on a daily basis. My best guess is constant credential stuffing plus lack of any Apple mobile device.

The main creation flow wouldn't send a verification email, and there are hints around to try through Apple Music, which got me a little farther. At phone verification, I receive the code fine (on both numbers I tried), type it in, and get an inscrutable "error" that prevents finalization.

But it turns out it was final enough that even though I can't log in at all, they felt fine sending me Mother's Day email spam. Thanks. I'll be sure to FaceTime her.

[SolarToaster]

Had an eerily similar experience trying to set up a fresh personal iCloud account for my Mom. Effectively, feels like she's permabanned based on the phone #. Exhausted all possibilities and gave up.