Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The poster praises Claude Desktop's cleaner new UI, says they use Claude for Opus 5.5 and avoid other agents out of ban fears, and pushes back on criticism that the rebrand eases switching away.

The user says both of their Claude bans happened while using Claude Design for a company site whose docs contained a mainland China address.

A user whose Claude account was banned lost access to Claude Design, found Open Design much worse, and is asking for alternative tool recommendations.

A user explains that a banned Claude account becomes Free and loses access to Claude Design, but data including chats and design drafts can be exported from settings via an emailed download link and then restored with GPT.