How are businesses handling the "APPLE LOCK" on company cell phones when an employee leaves and their phone is unusable because the euipment was set up on the employee's personal Apple Account with their ID and password?

How are businesses handling the "APPLE LOCK" on company cell phones when an employee leaves and their phone is unusable because the euipment was set up on the employee's personal Apple Account with their ID and password? When an employee leaves a business and the company has purchased the equipment, the company should have the rights to reissue the equipment and Apple should provide an alternative to unlock the equipment from the employee's personal APPLE account and password so the company (that purchased the equipment) can reissue the line and equipment to another employee.

If you can prove ownership to Apple, they may be able to help you.
The best way of handing things would be strong policies requiring that the equipment be turned in in a usable state. i.e. not activation locked. Failing this, the employee should be charged the cost of the replacement phone. Held from their final paycheck if required.

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I have a personal itunes account with an iPhone5s (perosnal mobile numer) and an iPad 4 mini (no SIMM). I have unlocked my old iPhone 4 to use for work on a different SIM and new number,
Do you know if I can have all devices associated to my single apple ID and still use both numbers without messing up my profile. It has just changed my number over.

I would not be able to give you idiot proof guide, since different games are different. Some of them have icloud integrated already, but those already taken care of. Some of them use specific logins and once you log - you get your info. General recommendation is to contact support sites of those games for enabling icloud instructions or enabling of transfer. There are other purely apple ways - like sync your phone in itunes and then sync apps with ipad, but those are only one time transfer. There is another way that is not typically recommended - restoring ipad from iphone backup. It may transfer your game content, but once again sync in the future has to be done by game.
So if I were you, I would address that individually with every game provider.

I just recently purchased a mini iPad for my child. It was set up in the Apple store with my Apple id. I now want to create an Apple id for my child and switch it over, how can I go about that. I already downloaded some of the games from my account.

I just recently purchased a mini iPad for my child. It was set up in the Apple store with my Apple id. I now want to create an Apple id for my child and switch it over, how can I go about that. I already downloaded some of the games from my account.

With a new account, you'll need to rebuy the games.
Each user should have their own icloud account, otherwise they end up getting the same emails, contacts, calendars, notes, reminders, etc. - usually not what you want. But if all have been sharing the same itunes ID, keep it that way, you can have different IDs for itunes and icloud.
If you already have another icloud account, and want to set it up on a device, then go to Settings>icloud, scroll to bottom of screen and tap Delete Account. This only disconnects the device from that account, no data is lost on icloud. Then enter the account ID that you want to use.
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http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/

HT204088 Dear sirs, Could you please help me on my problem with my apple ID I create new account with security questions, and when I try to purchase paid application,it ask me for answers the questions but it's not working, My account have 50$ and stil

Dear sirs,
Could you please help me on my problem with my apple ID
I create new account with security questions, and when I try to purchase paid application,it ask me for answers the questions but it's not working,
My account have 50$ and still didn't buy anything

You need to ask Apple to reset your security questions; ways of contacting them include clicking here and picking a method for your country, phoning AppleCare and asking for the Account Security team, and filling out and submitting this form.
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How are applications handles when Lion installed?

How are applications handled when Lion is installed?
1) Are the standard (i.e. App store, phone booth, iPhoto, iCal, etc) automatically reinstalled?
2) How is iTunes handled? iMovie?
3) How is Mail handled? Will it automatically reinstall my Contacts, Mail folders with all of my saved emails?
4) How are 3rd party Apps handled that are located in the Application folder? in a separately created foldeer?
5) How is Time Machine handled? with all of its past backups?
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If you install over Snow Leopard, you'll get new default Apple apps.
iLife, iWork, and 3rd-party apps wont be disturbed (although PPC apps will no longer work).
Mail will be updated, your stuff will be covered..
Time Machine just continues on.
By all means, back up first, just in case something goes wrong.
Also see: Changes in Lion from Snow Leopard

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I have two different accounts with I-tunes and I want to link both purchases for my music to one account. How can I do this?

You are going to need to change the email address you use with your old ID. Once you have got access to your old account you will then log into both accounts at the same time on your Mac and transfer your data to a single account. We can do this later, but need you to get access to your old account first.
My Apple ID

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You cannot merge Apple IDs but you can go to Settings > iCloud and 'Delete Account'. When prompted to turn off documents and data, choose the only option which is Delete from my iPhone, but on the other prompt for Contacts, Calendars, etc you can choose 'Keep on my iPhone' Then once the Account is Deleted form the iPhone, log back in with the correct Apple ID and choose Merge when prompted. This will merge your data from this iPhone with that iCloud account effectively putting your devices on the same account.

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I have no idea who made this or how used it
Please help me
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Please if you know a way that can help me, share it with me.

You should be able to connect to their computer via your USB cable, copy the video over using Windows Explorer and the PC should be able to view it without any conversion.
When you do this, make sure they don't have iTunes set to automatically open and automatically sync when an iOS device is connected.

I share an iCloud account with my brother and he is receiving my iMessages

I share an iCloud account with my brother and our iMessage is linked together so he gets my text messages?

That's correct. If you share the same AppleID for iMessage, messages go to all devices.
If you don't want that to happen, and you want to be able to iMessage each other, then you or your brother will need to get a separate AppleID for iMessage.
In fact, iCloud accounts aren't meant to be shared between different people, as it means you won't be able to have your own independent contacts, calendars, bookmarks etc.

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I have the new iPad . I don't know how my sister's apple ID was set. I have all under my iTunes account but when i need to update my apps, a different apple ID come up! how do i change that?

Hi maggieanntb, your sister's Apple ID came up because an app(s) was downloaded using her account. To prevent that from happening, you would have to delete the app(s) that were downloaded on her's, and re-download them using your own Apple ID.

My screen is smashed and lock button doesnt work, i pay insurance but apple is making me pay $230 when i havent even had my phone for a year! This happened to my friend and they just replaced hers :(

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Apple doesn't sell insurance. Talk to your insurance company. The warranty does not cover accidental damage or abuse.
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Thank you sig--it seems in talking to her on the phone that she was not giving me the info correctly and she couldn't get into her bank account, NOT the computer. The computer is fine she was just frustrated with the bank's system and feeling alone with no help handy...
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When trying to sign in to the iTunes store I get the following message, "We could not complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error occurred (5002). There was an error in the iTunes store. Please try again later." How do you resolve this?

When trying to sign in to the iTunes store I get the following message, "We could not complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error occurred (5002). There was an error in the iTunes store. Please try again later." How do you resolve this? Has been going on for days now.

I started getting this message a couple of days ago.
Started a thread of my own before I saw your post. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4660828

HT201269 hi, my new device was set up in the store that I bought it from. How can I transfer all old text messages over to my new device? I have followed the icloud back up steps on this page. Please help, thank you.

hi, my new device was set up in the store that I bought it from. How can I transfer all old text messages over to my new device? I have followed the icloud back up steps on this page. Please help, thank you.
Its an iPhone 4
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Here is how
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109

HT201407 i have iphone 4s and can't activate it because i don't know what it the apple id and password and its like a 3rd hand, so its original owner is impossible to reach. what i can do to activate it.

i have iphone 4s and can't activate it because i don't know what it the apple id and password and its like a 3rd hand, so its original owner is impossible to reach. what i can do to activate it.

Nothing without the Apple id used to activate the iPnone
Activation lock is an anti theft method
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818?viewlocale=en_US
There is no way round the lock without the correct iD and Apple will NOT assist in any way
Get yoiur money back it is now an iBrick

How are businesses handling the "APPLE LOCK" on company cell phones when an employee leaves and their phone is unusable because the euipment was set up on the employee's personal Apple Account with their ID and password?

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