ArcGIS Online Account Converted to Developer Account With Feature Layers Previously Shared Publicly

[MitchMergen]

Sometime between the November 2023 and March 2024, there were ArcGIS Developer changes to data hosting rules and my ArcGIS Online account was somehow converted to an ArcGIS Developer account.

In December 2023, some of my published hosted feature layers quit working and Esri Support informed me that my developer account was not set to "Pay-as-you-go" and I had exceed the free tier for data hosting on my Developer account. The only way to get my web apps working with some hosted feature layers was to enable pay-as-you-go billing on the Developer account I didn't even realize I had. I had always just assumed my one account that's tied to our Organization was just an ArcGIS Online Organizational account type as I had previously been able to publish feature layers and share them publicly.

Now in March 2024, Esri has once again made changes to ArcGIS Online that no long allow Developer accounts to share hosted layers publicly and now I have some feature layers that are still shared publicly but that option is now greyed out and for any new feature layers on ArcGIS Online, the option to share publicly is disabled (greyed out).

Is anyone else stuck like me with an ArcGIS Developer account that they were previously only using with ArcGIS Online Map Viewer, Web AppBuilder, and  Experience Builder to build preconfigured applications and not custom Developer apps? I am unable to share hosted data publicly due to my Developer account that's somehow not linked at all to the ArcGIS Online account of the same username that I've been using successfully for 7 years.

[JayantTyagi]

I'm also facing the same issue. Need help how  to resolve it.

[Ivbolen]

Hi!

I hope you successfully resolved your issue!

Here is what ESRI posted https://developers.arcgis.com/arcgis-developer-subscription/

So technically, in February, you could migrate all your stuff to AGOL at no cost.

I believe you always had to register for developer separately but it was still part of your AGOL subscription. Is it your personal account or the company you work for? If first, perhaps the only option is pay-as-you-go, move everything out, and don't use developer at all. It always was weird to me that even with Organization account you have to register for this and that, like for Developer, or Community instead of just linking those to your account.

This year, they majorly switched the gears and what it looks like now a lot services and products are going to be at additional cost. 

[AlexAnder]

Similar issue with me. Super frustrating. Terribly communicated by ESRI.

I took a few hours to understand how to move my maps from one account to another, but I got it eventually. Oh, but I guess the map is completely useless because the one 200kb "hosted layer" I made with my free dev account is now impossible to access. And any map using it is inaccessible. Really really disappointing. Moving over to QGIS.