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How to Remove My Old Owner Apple ID

How to Remove My Old Owner Apple Account in icloud?

iPhone 7

Posted on Sep 18, 2020 9:22 PM

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Posted on Sep 18, 2020 9:46 PM

You cannot remove that without putting in the password from the old account that was on the phone. If you bought this phone from someone you should contact them to get them to enter the password to get it removed from your phone or ask them to go into their account online and remove the phone from their Apple ID. It's Activation Locked and will stay this way till that password is entered. There is no way past this, this is a feature that is put in place to deter theft and if it was able to be bypassed then it would make this feature pretty useless

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Sep 18, 2020 9:46 PM in response to aarav17

You cannot remove that without putting in the password from the old account that was on the phone. If you bought this phone from someone you should contact them to get them to enter the password to get it removed from your phone or ask them to go into their account online and remove the phone from their Apple ID. It's Activation Locked and will stay this way till that password is entered. There is no way past this, this is a feature that is put in place to deter theft and if it was able to be bypassed then it would make this feature pretty useless

How to Remove My Old Owner Apple ID

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