Normally I don’t respond to questions like this because I work for Developer Technical Support. Our focus is on technical questions and we don’t have the skills or the access required to deal with account issues. If you want definitive answers about those, you’ll have to talk to Developer Program Support. Start at the main Developer > Contact Us and choose Membership and Account.
However, in this case I have both some technical info and an opinion (-: so here we go…
Given that you’re currently using a free account as a Personal Team, I think the easiest and best option is to abandon that and create a new one with your name. There’s not a lot to lose here:
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Personal Teams can’t publish apps, so you don’t lose anything there.
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Your current DevForums history seems to consist of just this post, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
With regards this:
If I have to create a new account, it is possible to use an account on
Xcode different from the one on my mac
Definitely. I do this every day.
to use an account on Swift Playgrounds different from the one on my
iPad
I believe so. I’m less confident about this because I’m not able to do a full end-to-end test. However, Swift Playgrounds seems to be fully aware of this potential disparity. When you go to sign in, it defaults to using the device’s Apple ID but allows you to override that default.
What I think you should do is test it. Create your new Apple ID and try it in both Xcode and Swift Playgrounds. If that works, you can then talk to DevPrograms about upgrading it to a paid account. That way the Developer website knows nothing about your old account, and so can’t possible use its dead name.
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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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