samshaben wrote:
I understand that it's currently useless. My question is if the previous owner does realise that he/she has the phone on there icloud account and then remove's it, will the phone need any action from me to get it working? As I said I buy Amazon returns and one of the items was the iPhone.
Sure…
except…
Activation Lock is intended as a theft deterrent. It is intentionally difficult to bypass. Apple (per your previously-reported unlock request) won’t help, and we can’t.
For your next effort to bypass Activation Lock, Apple isn’t going to reveal the owner.
The owner has the opportunity to post a “lost” message if they wanted to, too. They didn’t.
The wholesale company got this device from who-knows-where in who-knows-what condition, too. Whether originally lost, stolen, repossession, recovery, auction, garage sale, improperly prepared for recycling or return, whatever. Put differently, wholesaler may not even have the owner info.
Some of the many “help me bypass activation lock” requests posted around here are likely from those that found or that stole the device, or are looking to use that info to commit further crimes, too.
Your experience with Activation Lock in secondary sales is not uncommon: The All Too Common SAD Reality of Buying a used iPad/iPhone - Apple Community
Other issues with these purchases can include Snapchat device bans, carrier locks, IMEI blacklists, and other issues.
Again, request a refund, or recycle it.
