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gman901

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I'm getting ready to sell my MacBook and realized after reformatting my HD that I forgot to disable iCloud (as well as deauthorize it from iTunes). Should I set my system back up under me and log back into iCloud and then disable it before reformatting? Will that completely disassociate my iCloud ID with my MacBook or can I just leave it be after reformatting and reinstalling El Capitan?
 

Quad5Ny

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Sep 13, 2009
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I'm getting ready to sell my MacBook and realized after reformatting my HD that I forgot to disable iCloud (as well as deauthorize it from iTunes). Should I set my system back up under me and log back into iCloud and then disable it before reformatting? Will that completely disassociate my iCloud ID with my MacBook or can I just leave it be after reformatting and reinstalling El Capitan?

1. https://support.apple.com/kb/ph2702
2. Go to https://www.icloud.com/ then go to Settings and Remove the MacBook from the listed devices
3. Go to https://appleid.apple.com/ and Remove the MacBook from the listed devices
 
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Fuchal

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Sep 30, 2003
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The only slightly more difficult one is iTunes - for that you'll just have to choose "Deauthorize all devices" and then log back in on the computers you use.
 
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