I can not restore because I can not turn off Find my Iphone

this worked for me too..finally got it to restore. thank you.

Thanks! I get it no other way but this way!

I too had the same problem, that I could not restore my phone as it was telling me to deactivate find my iphone.

I followed you step of going into icloud/find online and removing device, then I had to go into icloud on the phone and delete my account there also, only then was I able to restore my phone

i tried but it says the phone is not connected with icloud since there are no devices to find ! what do i do then ?

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This is the only way I got to restore: http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/DFU_Mode

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thank you! this worked for me as i too was getting the "turn off find my iphone message" despite already having done that!!!!!

Message was edited by: wrkndply

Hello, same thing happened to me. Go to settings, icloud, and there there is a "find my iphone" tabe, slide it to off, that worked for me!

I have the same problem

1) visited icloud.com on another device > Find My iPhone

2) remove the device from the Find My iPhone feature on that webpage

3) reboot iPhone

4) restore iPhone via iTunes

I did all of above but when opening up iTunes and plug my iphone back it, same message pops up saying I must turn off Find My Phone.

This is the only way I got to restore: http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/DFU_Mode

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Thank you! This is the only method that I could get to work also. I apprecaiate you posting this!

Found a fix! In my case I encounted the same problem and turns out I had disabled changes to location services within Restrictions. To check it this will work for you go to:

General | Restrictions | Location Services | Change "Don't Allow Changes" to "Allow Changes"

Note: You will need your passcode to update the Restrictions.

Once this setting was changed, I could go into iCloud and update the Find my iPhone.

by the way, none of the remote instructions work while the "iPhone is disabled ... try again in 60 minutes"

it will NOT show in devices on the iCloud.com and on my iPad app, it says "offline" and you guessed it, you cannot remote wipe while offline. YAY!

You restored sucefully with DFU mode? And find my iPhone was turned on? And you didn't need the Icloud password?

Hi tomerbar, how did you solved it? thanks

hi

Message was edited by: Maximus XPS

YES putting the iphone in recovery mode des the trick.

For those who their iphone has a defective home button, download TinyUmbrella and there is a button that will put ur device in recovery mode

iDavid wrote:

YES putting the iphone in recovery mode des the trick.

For those who their iphone has a defective home button, download TinyUmbrella and there is a button that will put ur device in recovery mode

I'm not familiar with TinyUmbrella. Is that a new App in the Apple App Store?