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Sep 7, 2016 11:56 PM in response to Nabeelnavby anubisosiris,I find it funny how ppl jump to stolen device as well, as if ppl don't loose things. Be quick to say ppl should be more responsible then. I found a iphone 6, believe it or not, in a construction area, in a good hard case. I believe a construction worker lost it. It has the icloud lock on it. So now I'm pretty much gonna have to throw a new looking iphone 6s plus away. Apple did a stupid thing with this lock, they wasted money because now they will find their phone torn up for parts or in the trash. Smart move apple. Smart move.
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Sep 8, 2016 12:51 AM in response to anubisosirisby Valntinebabee,My phone isn't stolen it somehow reset itself and now I can't unlock it
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Sep 8, 2016 1:00 AM in response to anubisosirisby Roger Wilmut1,anubisosiris wrote:
I find it funny how ppl jump to stolen device as well, as if ppl don't loose things. Be quick to say ppl should be more responsible then. I found a iphone 6, believe it or not, in a construction area, in a good hard case. I believe a construction worker lost it. It has the icloud lock on it. So now I'm pretty much gonna have to throw a new looking iphone 6s plus away. Apple did a stupid thing with this lock, they wasted money because now they will find their phone torn up for parts or in the trash. Smart move apple. Smart move.
What you should do (and in some countries are required to do by law) is to take it to the police. You don't have any right to keep a found object (or destroy it). As you can't locate the owner there's nothing else you can do - the police may or may not be able to assist the owner but it becomes their problem and not yours.
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Sep 8, 2016 1:02 AM in response to Valntinebabeeby Roger Wilmut1,Valntinebabee wrote:
My phone isn't stolen it somehow reset itself and now I can't unlock it
If it is Activation Locked it will show a partial Apple ID. If this is yours you can use it to unlock the phone. If it isn't yours, only the person whose ID it is can unlock it - this situation arises when a phone is bought second-hand (used) and the previous owner has failed to unlock it. Only he can unlock it - there is no way at all round that and Apple cannot unlock it for you. Without his being able to do this the phone is permanently useless.
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Sep 17, 2016 5:40 AM in response to TJBUSMC1973by fahad shafi,please tell me the way of contacting to the previous owner. so i could request him to turn off the activation lock. i bought it with a great difficulty. it took me like 2 years to manage the money for buying second hand iphone.
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Sep 17, 2016 3:00 AM in response to fahad shafiby Roger Wilmut1,I'm sorry, but there is no way at all of contacting the previous owner, and without his turning off the activation lock your phone is permanently useless. Whoever sold it to you it responsible for selling you a useless item and if it's possible you should contact them and demand your money back.
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Sep 17, 2016 5:38 AM in response to fahad shafiby Chris CA,fahad shafi wrote:
please tell me the way of contacting to the previous owner.
You purchased the phone from him so contact him however you did when you purchased the phone from him.
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Sep 17, 2016 6:16 AM in response to Chris CAby Roger Wilmut1,Chris CA wrote:
You purchased the phone from him so contact him however you did when you purchased the phone from him.
It's just as likely the vendor wasn't the owner who set the lock; he may have been a second-hand shop. Or a thief.
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Sep 23, 2016 4:52 AM in response to Nabeelnavby sam1122sam,There are sellers selling icloud unlock service on ebay for $10. its official by apple and works with only wifi devices like iwatch, ipad and ipod. I dont know why apple is not selling icloud unlock service for iphones?
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Sep 23, 2016 4:54 AM in response to sam1122samby sam1122sam,so far i have unlocked 2 ipads and work fine. these sellers are officially unlocking the devices but how?
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Sep 23, 2016 4:56 AM in response to sam1122samby Meg St._Clair,sam1122sam wrote:
There are sellers selling icloud unlock service on ebay for $10. its official by apple and works with only wifi devices like iwatch, ipad and ipod. I dont know why apple is not selling icloud unlock service for iphones?
No, they're not official Apple anything. They're a scam. For Apple to sell iCloud unlocking would be to defeat the entire purpose of the Activation Lock, which is to make iOS devices a less attractive target of the.
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Sep 23, 2016 5:00 AM in response to sam1122samby FelipeV,sam1122sam wrote:
There are sellers selling icloud unlock service on ebay for $10. its official by apple and works with only wifi devices like iwatch, ipad and ipod. I dont know why apple is not selling icloud unlock service for iphones?
Scam...
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Sep 23, 2016 5:09 AM in response to anubisosirisby Csound1,anubisosiris wrote:
I find it funny how ppl jump to stolen device as well, as if ppl don't loose things. Be quick to say ppl should be more responsible then. I found a iphone 6, believe it or not, in a construction area, in a good hard case. I believe a construction worker lost it. It has the icloud lock on it. So now I'm pretty much gonna have to throw a new looking iphone 6s plus away. Apple did a stupid thing with this lock, they wasted money because now they will find their phone torn up for parts or in the trash. Smart move apple. Smart move.
It's not your phone, throwing it away is appropriate (keeping it would be stealing)
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Sep 23, 2016 5:18 AM in response to Csound1by Roger Wilmut1,Csound1 wrote:
anubisosiris wrote:
I find it funny how ppl jump to stolen device as well, as if ppl don't loose things. Be quick to say ppl should be more responsible then. I found a iphone 6, believe it or not, in a construction area, in a good hard case. I believe a construction worker lost it. It has the icloud lock on it. So now I'm pretty much gonna have to throw a new looking iphone 6s plus away. Apple did a stupid thing with this lock, they wasted money because now they will find their phone torn up for parts or in the trash. Smart move apple. Smart move.
It's not your phone, throwing it away is appropriate (keeping it would be stealing)
In the UK, and presumably in many other countries, if you find an obviously lost object of value you are legally required to make a reasonable effort to return it to the owner - handing it in to the police constitutes a 'reasonable effort'. As said, you are not allowed just to decide to keep it. Had the phone not been locked, and you had decided to keep and use it, then, as said, that would be theft. If the phone has not been claimed after a period - probably six months - then the police would be entitled to return it to you. Of course as it's locked its only value is for parts.
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Sep 23, 2016 5:29 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1by Csound1,Same law applies in Italy and the US, I imagine also in most EU countries. And if you kept it without unlocking, it would still be theft (useless theft at that)