Cannot Turn Off Find My iPhone There was a problem deregistering this iPhone with iCloud. Try turning Find My iPhone off again

for me the trick was to make sure I had the phone on wifi connected to the internet. 🙂

I am also experiencing the same problem. Extremely frustrating! I have repeatedly done all of the steps. Upgrading to iOS7 has been a disaster. Please, Apple, address this issue.

None of this worked for me. I think I shall change my password to "AppleSucks" because they are famous for releasing IOS updates that are riddled with bugs and issues. My local AT&T store where I bought my iPhone 5S about 8 weeks ago said to contact Apple... The only option for me is to jump in my car I supposed and drive 200 miles to an Apple store and see if a Genius can fix this.

I've spent 5 hours messing with this iPhone.... and NOTHING will allow me to turn off "find my iPhone" or even get past that point.

My first Apple computer was a LISA ($9,995) in 1983 and I've been blindly loyal ever since, wade through many of the garbage updates Apple releases that won't talk to even their own software (Final Cut Pro 2 was not compatible to even one of Apples operating systems when they came up with a new one around 2000... God this is a pain.

In case this problem has not been resolved I found one way to do a full restore with this "find my phone" issue. Go to settings > iCloud > Delete account. Yes you need to delete your account and re-activate it. Make sure everything you have on iCloud/iPhone is backed up. While this may not be the best solution, it does allow full restore.

Apple please fix this! Thanks

Try signing to https://appleid.apple.com first to make sure that your password has not expired. If it has, you will be notified and given the option to change it to a new one.

Nooo guys, I found an easy way. Dont restore your phone. This is so easy:

Go to Settings - icloud - account, click on your email address - at Description delete the name icloud (might ask your password) - and press done. Now you can delete find my iphone and then delete icloud. Easy as that. Hope this helps 🙂

i have tried everyones solution to fix this annoying problem and no luck! i was able to fix it by doing the update that was available on my phone. once updated with the latest iOS my iPhone allowed me to turn off "find my iPhone". hope this helps

The problem can have several reasons, the reset basically is the brute-force method. Before you go for that method, try the following:

Force your iPhone to transfer all data trough the WIFI connection instead of your provider's network.

1) enable flight mode

2) disable flight mode, when asked for SIM-pin, do not enter it

3) check if your WIFI connection works (open website or something similar)

4) disable iCloud "find my iPhone"

This approach will work in cases where the provider connection (LTE or whatever) has issues. I used this approach in a number of cases successfully already. If the phone has update-related issues, this will not work.

This thread needs a warning that putting the phone in recovery should be the very LAST RESORT. Doing this has now resulted in the phone asking me for the very thing I was trying to remove and is now stuck in the famous 'activation lock' that apple have so generously added to make sure that no one can ever use your phone; including you. It is asking for an apple id that doesn't exist anymore so I cant even login to remove it from the account (that is broken). You can't even find out what the account email was because it is censored so any steps I could have taken renewing the password are obsolete and the phone itself is about as useful as a glass hammer.

I feel so dumb now that i have figured this out. But hopefully it will help everyone who, like me, is ready to throw their iPhone out the windw.
Settings
< Cellular-
Turn cellular data on

Settings
< iCloud
Turn Find my iPhone off

Settings
< General
< Reset
Erase all content and Settings

Hope that helps you all 😀

This worked. Even on iOS8.1. Thanks.

Just came over from Android...this iPhone process is pretty complicated.

Well, it works for me in iOS 8.

I'm pretty sure you can not turn it of because you have 'Find My iPhone' App installed & configured.

To turn it off, you need to Delete / Uninstall Find My iPhone App first. Then Try again to turn it off from Settings> iCloud>

Hope it works, Cheers!

Just started getting this issue today. keeps asking me to sign in to my iCloud account and i've done it over 100 times today it's so frustrating what the **** is going on apple

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