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Activation Lock

Bought a new macbook air it came up in activation locked mode because I had the Find My Mac app on my iphone. How do I eliminate this problem?

MacBook Air

Posted on Aug 20, 2020 7:27 AM

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anonyme4321

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Posted on Aug 20, 2020 7:34 AM

Did you buy the mac from Apple directly?

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