HT201274: Erase all content and settings on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple Watch
Learn about Erase all content and settings on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple Watch
Q: Hi, my carrier has sent through a request to have my phone unlocked. I was wondering if it can be done sooner than 72 hours?
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Jul 4, 2013 6:50 AMby FelipeV,Erasing the content and settings from the phone itself will activate and but will not unlock your phone. You need to use iTunes to unlock the phone. Plug the phone to a computer that has iTunes installed.
If you are not interested in restoring the content because you intend to give the phone to someone else, then you do not need to worry about backing up.
You will get the message that your phone has been unlocked in the iTunes window after your restore as new.
If you do this and the unlock message does not appear, then the unlcok has still not benn processed and you will have to wait until it has.
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Jul 4, 2013 7:30 AMby FelipeV,Ok. Then you can give it to your nephew and he can set it up by himself. Unplug it from the computer. Have him ccheck to make sure there is nothing of yours on the phone. (there shouldnt be) if there is he can erase it again himself either from the phone or by plugging in to his computer with iTunes.
