HT201065: What to do before selling or giving away your Mac
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by Winston Churchill,Feb 25, 2013 3:59 AM in response to mynameisnotjosh
Winston Churchill
Feb 25, 2013 3:59 AM
in response to mynameisnotjosh
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Apple TVWelcome to the Apple Community.
A few others have noticed the same thing.
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Feb 26, 2013 9:37 AM in response to Winston Churchillby mynameisnotjosh,Thanks Winston!
Does that mean people have experienced that buyers (unwillingly) end up with the data from seller's icloud? Or just that the device keeps reappearing in find my iphone?
I just checked, and the macbook has now reappeared on my device list after having been removed (offline, location services switched off). Shouldn't that require the macbook to be signed in to my icloud? :S
Any help/clarification is much appreciated
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Feb 26, 2013 9:50 AM in response to mynameisnotjoshby Roger Wilmut1,My guess would be that it's in the list because it hasn't been removed from the machine in question - which of course now it can't be. The present owner isn't going to be able to access your iCloud data of any type if he doesn't know your password: if you have any reservations about that just change the password. That would absolutelly prevent him from accessing it, and you from locating him; but you may find it difficult to remove the machine from the list and just have to live with its meaningless presence there.
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by Winston Churchill,★HelpfulFeb 26, 2013 9:53 AM in response to mynameisnotjosh
Winston Churchill
Feb 26, 2013 9:53 AM
in response to mynameisnotjosh
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Apple TVFrom what I gathered from the very small number of cases I've seen, it's that it's more of an annoyance than anything else. It doesn't mean that the new owner has any access to your data and it seems if the new owner uses iCloud themselves with their own account that the issue goes away. I don't have anyway of verifying this myself though.