Early last month, after years of my Apple Developer Account just collecting dust I decided in a moment of hubris or perhaps just boredom that now would be a good time to jump back in, so I downloaded Xcode, renewed my Apple Developer Subscription and got after it.
Fast forward to 23 days ago when I decided that if I was going to actually release any apps, I’d like to do so under my company (Anthology Group.) Full disclosure, at the beginning of this all I knew I wanted to release under my company’s identity, I even tried signing up for a new Developer Account but was unable to complete registration and was forced to resurrect my old developer account.
Despite the warnings on Apple own’s site about what would be unavailable during the migration process from an Individual to Organization account, I boldly (read: ignorantly) blazed ahead. Remember that number of days, 23? That’s how long (and counting) the migration process has left me in limbo.
Naturally after the first few days of absolute silence from Apple I started Googling and seeing that people complained about it taking weeks if not months for their migration to complete.
So here I sit, venting to the internet just to make myself feel better. For those who may stumble across this in their own search for answers about the process, here’s my current timeline. May 10th - Submitted original request. Radio silence. May 13th - Emailed support. They sent me an email with next steps.May 15th - Emailed again. Was told "under review by our senior team".May 21st - Emailed yet again with a faint sense of hope as a new enrollment ID had appeared on my account.May 23rd - Received a reply to my May 21st email stating "our senior support team will contact you soon". (spoiler: they did not)May 28th - Called support. Someone on the internet said that helped them. Was told "senior team is on it, no timeline though".May 30th - I lost the ability to sign apps for testing on local devices. Could this be the light at the end of the tunnel? It was not.June 2nd - Emailed support again. No reply yet.June 3rd - Still no movement.