IPad activation issue after update

tennykai wrote:

I have an iPad air 5th gen that i bought 2nd hand about a year ago and I activated it with my iCloud. I recently updated it to iPadOS 26.2 and now it’s saying IPad locked to Owner. I tried inputting my iCloud but it said I can’t use that apple account to unlock the iPad. This wasn’t the first time I updated it, I updated it before and I didn’t have any problems activating it using my iCloud, until now. The iPad is still showing up in my Find My and also under my devices in settings with the same serial number but only with the previous OS version and not the one that it was updated to. What should I do to solve this problem?

The only way to remove it is by entering the original owner information as outlined in the two links below, contact them if you can, if you can't then the ipad is useless, recycle it.

You got lucky with the past updates.

How to remove Activation Lock - Apple Support

Activation Lock for iPhone and iPad - Apple Support