API_CURRENTLY_DISABLED: For security reasons, this API has been disabled" salesforce

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

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

• APICURRENTLYDISABLED
• 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

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

Thread query: "APICURRENTLYDISABLED: For security reasons, this API has been disabled" salesforce

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.