Delete Old iPhone from iCloud Account?

I recently upgrade from an iPhone 5s to an iPhone 6. Knowing I was going to sell the old phone, I backed up everything and then deleted my iCloud account and then deleted all settings & content.

I thought this was the proper way to do things.

Anyhow, tonight when logging into my iCloud from my MBP, I looked in settings and noticed the 5s still shows up under My Devices (signed in & running iOS 8 or OS X Yosemite). While I can click on each device, there is no way to delete it that I can see. I have went in from my iPhone 6 and deleted the iPhone 5s back from the iCloud server.

I am confused why, and also a little worried as I sold the phone yesterday. I don't want my account or personal data to get hacked or have a problem from the buyer w/ the phone not activating. I'm sure they would have called by now if there was an issue, but I'm still concerned.

Any help & guidance would be most appreciated.

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Oh yeah, I might mention when checking under Find My iPhone inside my iCloud account that the 5s does not show up.

alFR said:

There's a big thread on the Apple support forums about this. Consensus seems to be that there is no way to manually delete it but it should disappear eventually on its own.

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Thanks for the help. I think I found the thread you were referencing.

I am cleaning up a few other profiles and enabling 2-step verification as well for extra protection. The most recent posts made it sound like it will remove in about 30 days on its own, unless you call and request a Support Rep do it sooner.

For my own peace of mind I think I will call in and request they go ahead and delete.

Here is a link to the other thread for others experiencing a similar problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6555561?start=180&tstart=0

Maybe I didn't do something when I wiped the phone because I went into the various Apple accounts and cleared out the old iPhone 5s...yet it still shows up in my iCloud account under "My Devices".

The best I can tell, it's an annoyance and not really putting my account or information at danger. I still need to call Apple and ask them to manually remove.