HT201365 prompt how to disconnect find me iphone if I don't know the password from the old owner?
how to be?
I'm sorry but if you cannot communicate with the old owner you will not be able to solve your problem. No one else can help you with this but the old owner and there is no way around activation lock.
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https://tidbits.com/article/14437#comments_22009
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If you bought the iBook from an auction, suggest they
should include the disc, since it implies a license to
have the system software installed. It is the proof.
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(depending on the computer, what it may use best) are
ideas, so ask AppleCare about them. If you can, get
both, so you may have one that does the job.
PS: If someone set an Open Firmware password, that
is another matter to access the locked computer. At a
level of security higher than Admin, near impossible.
Almost as bad as encrypting the hard drive.
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My iPhone was stolen before, but luckily i got it back.
Now i cannot activate it with my own Apple ID because the system kept asking me to enter the previous user's Apple ID (yes, the theif)
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Please kindly tell me what to do and how to do it. I want to use my iPhone with iOS 7!!
Thank you.
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Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
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Sincerely a Chinese girl really need your helpSorry we are all users on this User Community No Apple Staff
Read this .
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