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ios says sign in with your icloud or apple id, but when i attempt to it says " verification failed an unknown error occurred ."

I reset my iPhone because it was low on space and I just wanted to factory reset it because I was done, now I'm trying to fix it because it just completely messed it up now it had a death spiral for a long time where it showed the Apple logo and turn off ever and ever and then sometimes it shown The bonjour now it just shows the beginning stages of setting up an iPhone and get stuck at certain points right now it's stuck at the iCloud stage and I cannot get past it I've been able to get past the last ones but this one not can y'all help.


it says sign in with your iCloud Apple ID I entered my Apple ID and password correctly I double checked triple checked for sure then I've entered next about 1 million times for a day now and it said verification failed an unknown error has occurred hasn't moved past us what do I do. I've tried it on cellular data I've tried it on many different WiFi now what.

iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 15

Posted on Dec 16, 2021 9:41 AM

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Posted on Dec 16, 2021 3:36 PM

The friend will hopefully have reset it to factory before you bought it.

I think you can force restart it.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/force-restart-iphone-iph8903c3ee6/ios

Then try it on SIM only, skip the wifi.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202033


After that contact Apple Support or, as I said, go to an Apple Store genius bar before Omicron shuts them all down again.

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Dec 16, 2021 3:36 PM in response to Breelong1122

The friend will hopefully have reset it to factory before you bought it.

I think you can force restart it.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/force-restart-iphone-iph8903c3ee6/ios

Then try it on SIM only, skip the wifi.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202033


After that contact Apple Support or, as I said, go to an Apple Store genius bar before Omicron shuts them all down again.

ios says sign in with your icloud or apple id, but when i attempt to it says " verification failed an unknown error occurred ."

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