He doesn't say he doesn't, so I assume he does. The problem is the way he got banned also blocks him from his shared auth, which in turn blocks him from purchases and device functionality: The Damage: I effectively have over $30,000 worth of previously-active “bricked" hardware. My iPhone, iPad, Watch, and Macs cannot sync, update, or function properly. I have lost access to thousands of dollars in purchased software and media. Apple representatives claim that only the “Media and Services” side of my account is blocked, but now my devices have signed me out of iMessage (and I can’t sign back in), and I can’t even sign out of the blocked iCloud account because… it’s barred from the sign-out API, as far as I can tell. Seriously, it's like a one page blog. You could have read it in the time it took you to make me read it for you.