Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author says they haven't resubscribed since their Claude account was banned two months ago, and two months of work proved domestic models can handle everything.

After seeing claims that Claude accepts China passport KYC, the author opened an account and was banned immediately, and asks what went wrong.

After subscribing via iOS in-app purchase without logging out, the Claude account was banned; reopening the app shows only 'something went wrong', and switching accounts or reinstalling doesn't help—only proxy hijacking to clear cookies works.

A blogger's Claude account was banned, but since everything runs through API/SDK with sessions stored locally, a new account picks up where it left off; the post debates web UI versus local CLI.

The author says Claude may be both the most loved and most hated model in China: great for coding, yet region limits, payments, phone numbers, risk controls and bans keep users fearing account loss.

Claude's KYC verifies identity, not nationality, so overseas Chinese can pass with a Chinese passport; however, KYC prompts target flagged-but-not-yet-banned accounts and passing doesn't guarantee future survival.

The author notices more Claude account reinstatements in recent days than in the past month, even for accounts with random details, and speculates Anthropic is softening ahead of an IPO.

A user says Anthropic keeps precisely banning their Claude Code accounts even after remote-device and SSH workarounds, including a student who only wanted to build a blog frontend.

Replying to another user, the poster says their Claude account was banned, leaving them no choice but to use ChatGPT.

After a Max 20x ban, a user opened three Pro accounts on the same computer and network with no isolation, kept alive by passport verification; the poster suspects heavy-use accounts draw more risk control.

A user says Claude has always worked smoothly for them with no special measures and no bans, and they don't understand the frequent online reports of being unable to use it.

A user with a year on Claude Code says they were banned when trying to upgrade from Pro to Max, and is switching to Codex.