My Developer ID notarization has been failing for about three weeks, and I've
reached a state where neither renewal nor re-enrollment is possible.
The notarization failure
Every submission fails immediately:
Error: HTTP status code: 403. A required agreement is missing or has
expired. This request requires an in-effect agreement that has not been
signed or has expired. Ensure your team has signed the necessary legal
agreements and that they are not expired.
xcrun notarytool history returns the same 403, so it isn't specific to one
submission.
Signing itself is unaffected. My Developer ID Application certificate is valid
through 1 Feb 2027, an OCSP check against ocsp.apple.com returns "good", and
Apple's timestamp server still issues secure timestamps. Only the notarization
service rejects me.
Why I can't resolve it myself
App Store Connect → Business shows two banners:
"Your Apple Developer Program membership has expired. ... To renew your
membership, the Account Holder needs to visit the Membership section of their
account on the Apple Developer website."
"The Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been updated and needs to
be reviewed. ... the Account Holder must review and accept the updated
agreement."
The Agreements table on that same page is completely empty, so there is no
agreement presented for me to accept.
I am the Account Holder and the only person on the team. Following those
banners:
developer.apple.com/account shows no Membership section and no "Renew
Membership" button. Instead it shows a "Join the Apple Developer Program —
Enroll today" card, as though I had never enrolled.
Clicking "Enroll today" lands on
developer.apple.com/enroll/ineligible/account-holder:
Sorry, you can't enroll at this time.
Your Apple Account is already associated with the Account Holder of a
membership.
So the developer portal believes I have no membership and offers enrollment,
while the enrollment flow believes I already am an Account Holder and refuses.
App Store Connect still knows my team and displays my legal entity details.
The three systems disagree about whether my membership exists.
Details
Team ID: U28V5P5Q2H
Enrolled April 2026 (Developer ID certificate issued 26 Apr 2026)
Distribution is Developer ID direct download, not the App Store
Signing in with the same Apple Account I enrolled with
What I've already tried
Signed in to both developer.apple.com and App Store Connect as the Account
Holder
Checked App Store Connect → Business → Agreements (empty)
Navigated directly to the membership and renewal URLs — both redirect to the
generic Account dashboard with no renewal option
Opened a ticket with Developer Program Support about three weeks ago, no
response yet
This blocks shipping any new version of my app.
Is there a way to break this deadlock from my side, or does it require Apple to
repair the account record? If it's the latter, what's the most effective way to
escalate an existing ticket?
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