Fix 'Activate Apple ID' error for podcast submission
If you are dealing with issues when it comes to your Apple ID, because I did, and I talked to Apple tonight for quite a bit.
The Apple ID process was annoying for me tonight because I started from scratch and created a new one using a new Gmail.
When you do that:
You have to confirm the fact that you are a real person. So you have to have a phone number. And you have to have your email confirmed through both of those things.
The next thing you have to do is add your payment information.
Try to download any app.
I know it sounds weird, but that is how they authenticate that you're a real person. They don't charge you for anything.
It's just keeping a payment method on file.
The next thing that downloading an app allows you to do is review its terms and conditions, which from Jonathan whom I talked to today is the main point of them doing all of this. So thankfully I was able to do this on my phone.
Is it possible for non-Apple users to submit their podcasts to Apple Podcasts?
But I also inquired what it's like for non-iOS users, if you don't have one, but still want to be on Apple podcasts, how do you go about doing this?
And the answer was to mainly set this up in your browser, appleid.apple.com.
And since you don't have, an iPhone or an iPad or a Mac book that you might be. Using to download an app and accept the terms and conditions.
The method that you use is going to be a little bit different on your Windows device.
You're going to download the iTunes app because that is something you can download on a Windows laptop or something like that.
And so anytime you go ahead and do that, it's going to now ask you to review the terms and conditions, which is mainly what you need to do.
And then adding your payment info and all of that good stuff can easily be done within the Apple ID portal.
So once that is all good, you're going to sign in here.
It's going to ask you to authenticate and verify.
It looks like I have to use my phone right now.
Now that I have logged in to my Apple ID, this is what you should be seeing.
If you see yourself in a position where it says to activate your Apple ID, Then you have to go ahead and complete the steps that I just mentioned.
If you face any issues, check out some of the other links I placed in the description, and that should help you out. That's usually the annoying part when you first set it up fresh, cause you can't do anything until that's activated.
Links for Troubleshooting mentioned in the video:
Creating an Apple ID: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204316
Creating Apple ID on browser: http://appleid.apple.com/
US Apple Support Number: 1 (800) 275-2273
International Apple Support Numbers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201232
