iCloud locked iPhone 7

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iCloud locked iPhone 7

So my grandma gave me an iphone 7 3 a year ago and she told me someone from her church gave it to her and she asked me if I could put her ICloud or mines since she doesn’t know how it works and the thing is that it has the other persons iCloud and I asked my grandma if she had the contact of the person who gave it to her and she says that it’s been a while since she has seen the person and that they left the church group so I just put her iCloud on the iTunes part and put mines but I found it again but forgot the password so it disabled so I did the whole restore thing but it still has the iCloud of the other person and I don’t know how to contact them.

iphone 7

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iPhone 7, iOS 15

Posted on Nov 27, 2024 8:41 PM

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MrHoffman

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Nov 27, 2024 8:49 PM in response to rabbi194

It is now and will forever be a brick. Recycle it.

Activation Lock is intended as a theft deterrent, and is intentionally difficult to bypass.

You’ll need the owner of the Apple Account to release the lock, or a receipt from the original purchase or similar proof.

We can’t help release Activation Lock, and absent proof you likely don’t have, Apple won’t.

Which means this iPhone is indistinguishable from a lost or stolen device.

iPhone 7 is forever limited to iOS 15 as well, and third-party apps are starting to drop support for that.

Again, recycle it.

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Nov 27, 2024 9:08 PM in response to rabbi194

If it is Activation Locked, and you cannot contact the owner to whom it is locked to get their help in releasing the lock, the phone is and will remain a “brick.”

Recycle it.

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Bob Timmons

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Nov 27, 2024 8:50 PM in response to rabbi194

Unfortunately, unless you can discover a way to contact the "other person" to get the iCloud Password from them, you won't be able to set up the iPhone 7 the way that you want.

Realistically, it sounds like this is never going to happen, so you might as well drop the phone off at the recycle center.

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