If you’ve been managing a Salesforce org or spinning up sandboxes recently, you already know that 2026 has been a wild year for security updates. Following the major data breaches and vulnerabilities of last year, Salesforce has understandably cracked down.
But for solo administrators, consultants, and developers, one specific security enhancement has felt less like a shield and more like a trap: the automatic freezing of users on anonymous VPNs.
The “Circular Trap” for Solo Admins
Picture this: You log in to a Developer Edition org or a sandbox from a public Wi-Fi network. For basic data privacy, you have your personal VPN turned on. Suddenly, Salesforce flags the IP address, blocks your connection, revokes your OAuth tokens, and freezes your admin user account.
If you are part of a massive enterprise team, this is an inconvenience—you just ask a colleague to unfreeze you. But if you are a solo admin, or the only user in a sandbox, you are officially locked out of your own house. The only way back in? Waiting on phone queues to raise a case with Salesforce support.
After getting frozen out multiple times simply for forgetting to turn off a VPN, we at Anyity decided we couldn’t just sit around and wait for a fix. We built one.
Introducing Unfreeze Manager
We created Unfreeze Manager, a lightweight managed package specifically designed to act as an automated safety net for solo admins and sandbox environments.
Instead of leaving you stranded, Unfreeze Manager monitors your user statuses entirely within your org.
- Continuous Monitoring: The app automatically scans and unfreezes selected admin users every 15 minutes.
- The Midnight Reset: It runs an additional sweeping cleanup at midnight to ensure your environment is fresh and accessible for the next workday.
- Completely Free: We built this to solve a real, frustrating community problem, and it is entirely free to use.
Install It Today
Security is vital, but it shouldn’t completely paralyze your productivity. With Unfreeze Manager, you can safely navigate your day knowing that an accidental VPN login won’t cost you hours of lost development time.
Ready to protect your environments? Use the links below to install the free package directly into your orgs:
- 🚀 Production / Developer Orgs: Install Unfreeze Manager for Production
- 🧪 Sandboxes: Install Unfreeze Manager for Sandbox