why wont my phone let me turn off find my phone?

bearww, We just figured out how to fix this. Go to "Settings", then "General", scroll all the way to the bottom to "Reset" then select "Reset all Settings" it will ask for your 4 number pass code twice after that choose "Reset All Settings" When the process is all done you should be able to shut off Find my iPhone, delete your iCloud account and restore your phone. We ended up not having to restore our phone because we were able to fix our issues after this. You will have to go back and reset all your settings after this but all of our information and apps were still on the phone. I hope this helps you.

Hey, i hope this many years later you have already solved your problem, but I had the same problem for hours here, almost threw my phone on the wall just to find out I was the one to blame and the answer was so much more simple. I was not connected to any wifi, that was why apple did not recognized my password. Hope it helps someone in the future

I struggled for about an hour and tried everything written in here. It was a simple fix for me. You have to have location services enabled before it will let you turn off Find my iPhone.

Go to Settings >> Privacy >> Location Services and turn them on.

Once you turn them on you can go to Settings >> iCloud >> toggle off Find My iPhone >> enter your password and it will accept your passoword.

Before I did this, when I would enter my password the password box would blink like I hadn't entered the correct password. After I enabled the location services it took my password like it should have.

I am having the exact same problem. Icloud won't give me access to turn off find my phone. How did you put your phone into recovery?

On your phone - Tap Settings - iCloud - scroll down to find my iPhone, slide the slider to off, then enter your appleID password. FMI is now turned off.

It requires your password to prevent a thief from restoring your phone, and using it.

HTH

I'd like to dod this but my ipad cannot be used becasue it says it needs activation (suddenly it did that I'd been using it happily for 12 months then it said it needs activating). So i can get to general seetings. Itunes says switch off find my iphone which i did in icloud but when i then try to restore or activate it says switch off find my iphone. impossible!

This still can be an issue with the current iOS. The solution is in the order of things. You can't turn off the "find my iPhone," because you are still logged in to the account. Go to Settings and click on your name. At the bottom of that next screen, click on Sign Out. Now you can go back to General menu and click the Reset button. Pick the option you want. It will now erase, reset or any of the other options.

NOTE: I just had this problem, tried all the suggestions, and finally figured it out.

YOU ARE A BLOODY CHAMPION MATE, WHEREVER YOU ARE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE GREATLY HELPED SOMEONE RELIEVE GENUINE FRUSTATION, THANK YOU

i got a blank page in iCloud and will not turn of it say pass word not write it got terms and condition but it over cast and will not turn off gone back to settings and deleted all and still comes on

You really helped me! I have been trying for about an hour to figure out why I couldn't turn off Find my iPhone - connected to my wifi and viola! Problem solved. THANK YOU so much! I will remember that next time.

in your iphone

i'd done all that i had to chat with the support team and had to put my phone into recovery mode to factory reset it.

ssschmidt, the issue isn't we can't figure out how to shut it off, it is it WONT shut off. I have the same problem. I even delete it but it still show's in iCloud. Can't restore the phone or delete iCloud account because find my iPhone wont turn off or delete no matter what we do. I drove 2 hours to an apple store and was told to just restore the phone. Got home only to find out that you can't restore the **** phone without find my iPhone being turned off which is what is the problem in the first place. Anyone figured out how to resolve this yet?

i did this but its still not letting me do it.... still wont turn off find my iphone

go in into your icould account setting turn off find Iphone