Remove device from iCloud

[izzle22]

What?

Now that is stupid.

Yes I thought so too. They even said they would talk to the engineers and get back to me if there was a fix. Apparently if you upgraded your old iPhone to IOS8 then turned off find my phone and erased the phone for selling purposes the phone would still remain listed as devises currently signed on and running IOS8. I want my IPhone 5 (which I erased and sold) off of my list of devises.

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Ahh...well if you've already done this and there is no official way, that's a bummer. Maybe they will implement it someday.

Yes. It's been frustrating. Apple told me "it's just history, a phone you used to be signed on, don't worry about it" I was like "no, it says devises I'm currently signed on to running IOS8 and I'm not currently signed on to that phone" it doesn't make sense.

 

[Yun0]

my iphone 5 that i sold a week ago still appears in icloud settings, i noticed my iphone 6 took at least 2 days to start appearing in there too & i made icloud backups right away. im not really concerned about it cause i know i did everything right on the iphone 5 before selling it, manually disabled facetime/imessage, turned off find my iphone, deleted the icloud backups, restored device. havent had any errors or suspicious activity at all, & the "latest backup" has been gone from that iphone 5 since that same day, its also unregistered from my account/support profile etc

but i like the rest, dont have a "trusted devices" section anywhere but i have 2 step verify off still cause i dont like how apple says it works, it should function more like steam guard, SIMPLE & CLEAN yet effective, & i have a long complex password

 

[blhoward2]

What are you guys referring to as iCloud devices, other than the ones showing in Find My iPhone?

 

[Yun0]

that

 

[Mainyehc]

Unbelievably stupid indeed…

Wait, it gets worse!

I have two phantom devices, one that appears in the iCloud Drive prompt (I still haven't accepted the migration offer, as I'm waiting for Yosemite GM), and another in the “My Devices” section…

Both were MacBooks from friends of mine, both named Joana (my name is João, btw; both names are portuguese versions of Joan and John), and the former was booted from Mavericks and the latter was booted from a Yosemite Public Beta installation I've been using on my iMac (which appears only once, even though it is booted regularly from either Yosemite PB and Mavericks). The first Joana's MacBook appears as “MacBook Pro de Joana” (literally, “Joana's Macbook Pro”) in the iCloud Drive warning field as one of the devices that must be upgraded to Yosemite, and the second appears as “iMac de João” (“João's iMac”; I may have customized the former's “computer name” and not the latter's, which explains why it retained the iMac's external Yosemite PB boot drive Sharing preferences) on the “My Devices” panel. Weirdly, the MacBook running Mavericks doesn't appear on said panel…

So this is definitely a Mavericks/Yosemite/iOS 8/iCloud Drive-related issue, it seems, and an incoherent one at that. Once you boot the sucker and log it in to iCloud, it automagically and irreversibly reports the device's serial number to Apple/iCloud; Mavericks only seems to report it to the iCloud Drive compatibility check (which is nice, but should be reverted from the moment the user *logs out* of iCloud, which I obviously did), while Yosemite forcefully registers it in the “My Devices” section.

I'm guessing the manual “support profile” registration *and* the iTunes “trusted devices” list weren't enough for Apple, eh? :\ Now we all have three device lists, all out of sync, and one of which is auto-updated and un-customizable!

Add to this the iCloud data loss bug, and suddenly the whole Maps debacle starts to look like a non-issue by comparison.

 

[supersalo]

Try logging into iCloud.com, going to Find My iPhone and clicking on the All Devices list in the top center of the screen. You'll see it listed there. If the device you want to remove is Offline and there's no 'X' to remove it, wait a minute or so.

That happened to me on an older device. There was no 'X' at first. I went back to that browser tab a few minutes later and the 'X' appeared to remove it.

 

[0970373]

Try logging into iCloud.com, going to Find My iPhone and clicking on the All Devices list in the top center of the screen. You'll see it listed there. If the device you want to remove is Offline and there's no 'X' to remove it, wait a minute or so.

That happened to me on an older device. There was no 'X' at first. I went back to that browser tab a few minutes later and the 'X' appeared to remove it.

This is a very different issue. You can read the previous posts regarding what it's about.

 

[crashoverride77]

Hey,
I got the same issue with my 5s that I replaced with a 6 and I believe it will remove itself after couple of weeks.
The same happens with old devices and Safari iCloud tabs, you could see your recently erased phones open tabs (in ios7 you can not swipe to delete icloud tabs) so they were always there. This normally resolved it self after 1-2 weeks. Hopefully same happens to this iCloud.com issue.