Apple Removes Tool to Check if an iPhone or iPad is Activation Locked

[C DM]

If all you had was a login password, that is easy to reset, then login and turn off iCloud and Find my Mac. So yes, if you turn off iCloud, it is also turned off in NVRAM like I mentioned. But if you have Filevault encryption turned on, the thief would have no way to get in and turn off iCloud, so FMM would stay active in NVRAM even if you reformatted or removed the drive.

Can you disable Find My Mac (and iCloud) without the iCloud password on a Mac?

 

[Weaselboy]

Can you disable Find My Mac (and iCloud) without the iCloud password on a Mac?

I know turning off FMM asks for a password, dunno about the whole iCloud account. Just from memory, I don't recall being asked before. Do you recall differently?

 

[C DM]

I know turning off FMM asks for a password, dunno about the whole iCloud account. Just from memory, I don't recall being asked before. Do you recall differently?

I haven't played around with it on the Mac really, so I wasn't sure, but I figured it probably should be more or less the same as it is in iOS, meaning that if Find My Mac is enabled, then disabling that or removing the iCloud account would first require the iCloud password to disable Find My Mac.

 

[UnableToLogin]

Read all the stuff about thieves, but this is a horrible move. Now pawn shops can't check incoming devices and I can't check devices I'm buying. Bought my iPad back when this was still around. Not buying any more iOS devices because of this and similar restrictions. Chinese thieves are a great excuse to stop the sale of used apple devices. They keep doing this stuff over and over.

 

[Tech198]

Every time Apple closes a door, they open a window. By the same token i kind of welcome this removal, a bit hash, but still, it forces u to buy from Apple only, and like like downloading iOS apps from outside of the app store, u go on your own turf if u buy second hand iPhone or anything.... This makes more sense, because u are still trusting the seller anyway, so may as well go the extra mile.

Just (yet) another lockin moment

 

[C DM]

Every time Apple closes a door, they open a window. By the same token i kind of welcome this removal, a bit hash, but still, it forces u to buy from Apple only, and like like downloading iOS apps from outside of the app store, u go on your own turf if u buy second hand iPhone or anything.... This makes more sense, because u are still trusting the seller anyway, so may as well go the extra mile.

Just (yet) another lockin moment

But that's not really why it was removed.