cannot activate my iphone again because I cannot remember my apple id password. it says locked to owner. i am the owner

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Koda_7688,

I had the same issue on my iPhone 7 last week; what I did was, I kept using the wrong password for several times until a message popped up to get me create a new password; after that, you should be good to go.

Hope that helps