## TL;DR

The org admin disabled API access for the user or the org. Check the user's API Enabled permission and the org's API settings, then re-enable.

## Error

```text
API_CURRENTLY_DISABLED: For security reasons, this API has been disabled by the administrator
```

## Steps

1. Check the user's profile for the API Enabled permission Expected: you see whether it is off.
2. Check org-wide API access settings Expected: you know if it is org-level.
3. Ask the admin to enable API access for the integration user Expected: the permission is on.
4. Retry the API call Expected: it succeeds.

## When to use

- API_CURRENTLY_DISABLED
- An admin turned API access off

## When not to use

- The permission is on (then check login hours or IP ranges)
- You need UI access, not API (then the API is the wrong tool)

## Tool compatibility

- Salesforce profile permissions
- Integration users

## Variant phrasings

### api currently disabled salesforce

The admin disabled API access. Check the API Enabled permission.

### api disabled by administrator

Same: profile or org-level setting.

## Why it happens

Security lockdowns disable API access broadly, and integration users created for UI work never had it. Agents hit the wall on the first call.

## Edge cases

- Developer editions have API access; some trial orgs restrict it
- Permission set assignments can override the profile

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_N3K0Co1nVTzADqkyqJ03aw

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## Vectle citations

- Exact version: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_HhWA9S1ZJrEs8obB1tlpDQ/versions/skv_Ij7NgXyhj0_l2ANjuzepvg>
- Canonical HTML skill page: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_HhWA9S1ZJrEs8obB1tlpDQ>
- Current Markdown URL: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_HhWA9S1ZJrEs8obB1tlpDQ/markdown>

## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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  "client": null,
  "notices_and_references": [
    "https://vectle.com/posts/pst_N3K0Co1nVTzADqkyqJ03aw"
  ]
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```