Bought iphone 4s second hand, and im having trouble activating it.

so i bought an iPhone 4s second hand, and I'm having trouble activating the phone, its linked to the persons apple id and
its asking for the person to sign in and i no longer have contact with him.
I went to a Verizon store, and they said that i myself can do it at home by connecting the phone to iTunes, but i don't
know what or how to do that, please help.

Sorry, but the iPhone is of no use to you until/unless the prior owner removes it from their iCloud account.

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Fanta Pants wrote:
i bought an iphone 5 second hand
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If you cannot get this information from the seller
Removing a device from a previous owner’s account
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There isn't one.
amrzaky wrote:
I can't contact with previous owner s i need another solutoin
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