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I have forgotten my registered email:((
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The only time a user is shown an email/password prompt when activating an iPhone is when activation lock is enabled.
I don't see where he admitted to lying. I see where others are accusing him of lying.
To me what is clear is that English isn't his first language and he is likely using a translator to post and read here. Do his edits look suspicious? Yes, but regardless of whether or not he is lying, nothing I have posted to him would help him to activate an iCloud locked phone.
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And what I said remains true as a response to his unedited first post, which was the post I clearly was responding to.
What he described in his EDITED post is an activation lock. The first unedited post that YOU told me he posted did not describe an activation lock. Go back and read it.
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That's what he said in his EDITED post, not in his FIRST UNEDITED post, which is what I was responding to. Go back and read it.
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LOL! Clearly I upset you by posting how tech unsavvy the average iPhone user is. Your responses to me are transparent.
I'm fairly sure there is an option to enter an Apple ID when setting up a new phone. Perhaps the OP is just setting up his new phone but forgot his details. In that case, the OP can create a new Apple ID or go to the website to recover his information.
Get what? The OP changed from "I forgot my password and my registered email" to "I do not have the password from the previous owner." You and others can try to give the OP the benefit of the doubt, but usually when the OP quickly modifies the facts in the post it's a strong indication of a member dealing with a stolen iPhone (really no different from the flurry of threads we've been getting trying to override the activation lock in stolen iPhones).
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