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Forgot To Turn Off Find My iPhone
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Wow! If I sent my phone to stranger with all of my personal info still in it, Find my phone would be the last of my woories.
You can log into your icloud account and remove the device remotely.
Then it will be fine and released from your account.
Then it will be fine and released from your account.
You should "Erase all content and settings" instead of "reset all settings".
When you erase all content and settings, the iPhone will ask you for your iCloud password to disable the activation lock.
When you erase all content and settings, the iPhone will ask you for your iCloud password to disable the activation lock.
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It does.
Removing it from icloud obviously removes the activation lock.
it will not be tied up to anyone's icloud account.
Had this same issue. I swear I disabled 'find my iPhone' and got an e-mail from Gazelle that it has activation lock. Said they use https://www.icloud.com/activationlock/ to find out.
Not sure what's going on but clearly it does not show up on www.cloud.com in regarding to this device. I e-mailed them to send the phone back to me as I will try somewhere else.
Not sure what's going on but clearly it does not show up on www.cloud.com in regarding to this device. I e-mailed them to send the phone back to me as I will try somewhere else.
this is similar to what happened to me. When I got it back it was locked to someone else's iCloud account and I had to call apple to unlock it.
Update: E-mailed Gazelle Customer support and I told them that how it is possible that activation lock is in place when I clearly disabled find my iPhone and then erase all content and setting before sending it off. So I rejected the offer, got my phone back, only to realize that the activation lock e-mail wasn't mine.
I ended up e-mailing Gazelle Customer support that there is a mistake and that I don't recognize the e-mail. Even though the phone was mine, serial number and the imei # matched the box. Anyways, customer support was helpful and told me to send the phone back to them and that they would honor the original value that I locked into.
Got an e-mail notifying me that they have sent the check full amount.
I ended up e-mailing Gazelle Customer support that there is a mistake and that I don't recognize the e-mail. Even though the phone was mine, serial number and the imei # matched the box. Anyways, customer support was helpful and told me to send the phone back to them and that they would honor the original value that I locked into.
Got an e-mail notifying me that they have sent the check full amount.
That's awesome that they did this. Their customer service is one of the reasons why I keep selling my phones to Gazelle.