On July 29, 2026, we received an email saying that our Apple Developer Program membership had been terminated immediately for alleged “dishonest and fraudulent acts.”

The notice did not identify a transaction, app, build, document, or action that caused the decision. That is especially difficult to understand because this was a new and almost unused developer account.

What happened

Our account history is short and straightforward:

• We created the developer account on May 29, 2026.
• We supplied every document Apple requested, and the information was correct.
• Apple approved the account without raising an issue.
• We never submitted an app or build for App Review.
• We only created an app record and filled in its name and description.
• We are not affiliated with any previously terminated developer account.
• On July 29, 2026, Apple terminated the account without giving a specific reason.

There was no published app, review activity, payment flow, user activity, or distributed build through which we could have manipulated the App Store. Yet the notice alleged fraud in general terms and barred us from reapplying for at least one year.

Read the full termination email

Hello MEHMET KOCER,

This letter serves as notice of termination of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement (the “ADP Agreement”) and the Apple Developer Agreement (the “Developer Agreement”) between you and Apple effective immediately.

Pursuant to Section 3.2(f) of the ADP Agreement, you agreed that you would not “commit any act intended to interfere with any of the Apple Software or Services, the intent of this Agreement, or Apple’s business practices including, but not limited to, taking actions that may hinder the performance or intended use of the App Store, Custom App Distribution, TestFlight, Xcode Cloud, Ad Hoc distribution, or the Program…” Apple has good reason to believe that you violated this Section due to documented indications of fraudulent conduct associated with your account.

Apple is exercising its right to terminate your status as an Apple developer pursuant to the Apple Developer Agreement and is terminating you under the ADP Agreement for dishonest and fraudulent acts relating to that agreement. We would like to remind you of your obligations with regard to all software and other confidential information that you obtained from Apple as an Apple developer and under the ADP Agreement. You must promptly cease all use of and destroy such materials and comply with all the other termination obligations set forth in Section 11.3 of the ADP Agreement and Section 10 of the Apple Developer Agreement.

If applicable, no further payments will be made to you pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Paid Applications agreement (Schedules 2 and 3 to the ADP Agreement).

This letter is not intended to be a complete statement of the facts regarding this matter, and nothing in this letter should be construed as a waiver of any rights or remedies Apple may have, all of which are hereby reserved. Finally, please note that we will deny your reapplication to the Apple Developer Program for at least a year considering the nature of your acts. If you want to file an official complaint pursuant to an applicable Platform Regulation in your country or region you may Contact Us.

Sincerely,
Apple Inc.

Why this looks like a bulk termination round

Our account's unusual status is the clearest evidence that this was not a response to the behavior of a submitted app: we had never submitted one.

At the same time, several other developers publicly reported similarly sudden terminations under Section 3.2(f). The reports appeared in the same late-July period, involved Turkish developers or companies, and described the same central problem: a serious fraud allegation without a concrete explanation.

• Apple Developer Forums thread 839727
• Apple Developer Forums: corporate account terminated without a specific explanation
• Apple Developer Forums thread 840253
• Reddit: Apple terminated a developer membership

These accounts were not all in the same situation. One report concerned a company with an app already on the store, while another Reddit report came from a Turkish developer whose account was about a year old. That variety matters: it makes a problem limited to one app, one account age, or one developer's actions a less convincing common explanation.

The shared timing, country, agreement section, vague wording, and claims of no known misconduct suggest a bulk enforcement process that may have produced false positives.

What this evidence does—and does not—prove

We cannot see Apple's internal fraud signals, and Apple has not confirmed that it ran a Turkey-focused bulk termination campaign. Public reports alone cannot prove why each account was terminated.

But Apple's accusation is also impossible to meaningfully answer when it provides no specific evidence. In our case, the absence of any submitted build sharply limits the possible app-related conduct. Combined with the cluster of similar reports, a bulk false-positive process is a reasonable explanation and deserves a manual review.

What we are asking Apple to do

We are asking Apple to:

1. Identify the specific activity, document, or account connection that triggered the termination.
2. Conduct a genuine manual review of accounts affected in the July 29 round.
3. Give developers a meaningful opportunity to respond to the evidence.
4. Restore accounts that were terminated by false positives.

Fraud prevention is important. But immediate termination, a vague allegation, and a one-year ban without a specific explanation is not a fair process—especially when a developer has not submitted a single build.

We will update this post if Apple provides a concrete explanation or changes its decision.