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

I need to do a iphone restore and it wont let me turn off "find my phone" Why not? I am not tech savy and this is about to tip me over the edge!

iPhone 4, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 23, 2013 2:39 PM

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Posted on Nov 23, 2015 12:30 PM

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.

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