How to Remotely Disable i. Cloud Activation Lock from an i. Phonei. Cloud Activation Lock is a feature that allows users to lock down an i. Phone or i. Pad and require the entry of an Apple ID before the device becomes usable again. Its part of the excellent Find My i. Phone service and is extremely useful for many reasons, but it can also be a real pain if you or someone else obtained an i. Phone that has another Apple ID attached to it and is then locked to that account with an activate request, because until that activation lock is removed it will be prevented from general usage or login with another Apple ID. Two hackers have created a tool that they claim can bypass Apples Activation Lock. Its called doulCi, and it uses a maninthemiddle attack. Here is the latest guide on how to use iCloud remover tool to bypass iCloud activation lock on iPhone 7 Plus, 7, 6, 6S, SE, 5C, 5S, 4S, 4, 5 or iPad in 2017. However, the hack in a roundabout way likewise permits iPhone and iPad hoodlums to get their stolen merchandise up and running once more, basically making these. So what should you if you longer have possession over the i. Phone, but you still want to remove the Activation Lock and disconnect it from your Apple ID and i. Cloud account Or what should you do if you bought an i. Phone from someone else, and it has an activation lock attached to their Apple ID Fortunately you dont need to worry, because there is a pretty easy way to remotely disable Activation Lock from an i. Phone or i. Pad using i. Cloud. com, though, fair warning here, you must remotely erase the i. Phone to complete the process. Yes, that means anything on the i. Phone will be lost in the process, so you wouldnt want to do this with a device that has stuff on it you want to keep without backing it up first. The i. Cloud based locking feature is most often encountered with an i. Phone, but it applies to the i. Pad and i. Pod touch as well. You or whoever has the Apple ID will need access to a web browser and the internet to be able to do this, they do not need physical access to the i. OS device to remove the i. Cloud lock with this method Go to i. Cloud. com and log in with the associated Apple IDGo to Find My i. Phone and wait for all devices to be found located. Select the i. Phone in question that you want to disable Activation Lock forChoose Erase and enter the Apple IDConfirm to erase the device there is no turning back if you confirm this, everything on it will be removed. When the phone is finished erasing, choose Remove from Account to completely disable i. Cloud Activation Lock and to remove that device from the Apple ID i. Cloud account this is important do not forget to choose Remove from AccountNote if the i. Phone i. Pad i. Pod touch has already been erased or is offline and shut off, it will appear as greyed out and offline in the Devices list shown on i. Cloud. com. If thats the case, simply select it and choose the Remove from Account option, the device wont need to be erased twice. With the i. Phone erased, and, this is important removed from the Apple ID account it will set itself up as new and allow anyone to enter a new Apple ID and use the device as new. The great thing about this method is that it can be done remotely. This means that if you bought a used i. Phone online or from someone that later locked down the i. OS device for some reason or another, you can simply contact them and walk them through the unlocking process with i. Cloud. They dont need to do anything with the actual device since its all handled online through Apples i. Cloud service. Of course if you know the Apple ID holder in real life, you can just have them log into the associated account directly on the device to unlock it that way too, but obviously thats not going to be as convenient unless theyre nearby. If you go that route, be sure they proceed further to either reset i. OS to factory settings or just toggle the switch to disable Find My i. Phone in Settings. How Do I Disable Activation Lock if I Dont Know the Apple ID Password If you or whoever has the Apple ID dont know the password to the Apple ID account that is tying the i. Phone up with the i. Cloud Lock, you or them will need to reset the password associated with the account. This is also easy, its just a matter of answering a few questions to confirm the identity of the account holder first. To get that process started, simply go to https iforgot. Apple ID. Once the password has been reset, you can then log in to i. Cloud. com with the new Apple ID password to disable the activation lock using the sequence outlined above. This can also be done remotely.
0 Comments
|
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
November 2017
Categories |