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

I can not turn off my find my iphone 5 with iOS 7. I also can not find my iphone using icloud.com and most of my apps ask me to connect to icloud. It's like my phone thinks I am connected to icloud but I am not really connected. I can't force a logout of iCloud unless I can log out of find my iphone. I have literally been stuck for two days. I have regretted going to 7 ever since.


Please help!

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iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Oct 10, 2013 6:53 AM

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Feb 1, 2015 2:31 PM in response to Furiator

Hi Everyone. I am an iOS Tech Support advisor for Apple. I troubleshoot the iPhones, iPads and iPods. I had this same issue with one of my customers and I was pretty stumped as to why this error message was popping up at first. I read through some of the replies and honestly restoring back to factory settings didn't make sense to me because if the device is signed into iCloud, even if you restore it, the apple ID and password will still be present and you'll still have to sign out. So this solution WILL WORK in most cases but it is a very elongated process, especially for a minor bug/glitch like the one at hand. I had my customer perform a HARD RESET (hold power button and home button for 7-10 seconds until it powers off and you'll see the apple logo appear) When the device turned on I had her attempt to sign out again and it worked without a single problem so I would advise one should simply perform a hard reset before reverting to the full factory restore. I hope this helps you and can clear up any confusion as to why this error message pops up!



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Mar 10, 2015 8:18 AM in response to iOS Tech Support Advisor

Tried. Didn't work. I have done a hard reset at least 5 times. No luck. Still can't turn off Find My iPhone. I need to remove the iCloud ID as it is no longer existing.

I don't want to do a factory reset - I have data that I need (contacts etc). It's useless doing a restore as it'll just take me back to the same iCloud ID that is outdated.

Issue: I have forgotten my password. Tried the forgot my password steps. Apparently my birthday is wrong. There is no point sending an email to reset the password because the email no longer exists.

I have tried replacing my new primary email on my new Apple ID account with my old email just to get a password. And it works, but then I'm stuck with this "problem deregistering" error message, and I'm going around in circles.

Please help

Jun 20, 2015 12:13 PM in response to Furiator

hello..sorry for bad english

try my way.

go to setting>icloud>sign out>delete from iphone.

it will ask you to turn off find my iphone..just put your password.

then press home button to go menu screen and pop up screen "cannot turn off find my iphone" will appear.

go to setting back>icloud and your icloud already delete..


this way just for remove icloud account from iphone..

gud luck..have a nice day☺️☺️

Jun 22, 2015 12:41 PM in response to Furiator


Really starting to grow tired of Apple's bs. They have ZERO customer support online. This problem has been going on for 2 1/2 years and not once did any Apple mod step in with a solution. How many people have to write that they have had the same exact issue before you do something Apple to help solve this? There is no reason why I should have to restore my iPhone for a problem like this. I have done that 3x in the past and the issue will just arise again.

Anyway, get your chit together Apple, as you look pathetic as fck and can't even post a simple solution to solve this? Even Microsoft has their support forums figured out... Let me iterate how fcking pathetic this is Apple

Jun 28, 2015 3:22 AM in response to fakrul tanjong

fakrul tanjongJun 20, 2015 12:13 PM

go to setting>icloud>sign out>delete from iphone.

it will ask you to turn off find my iphone..just put your password.

then press home button to go menu screen and pop up screen "cannot turn off find my iphone" will appear.

go to setting back>icloud and your icloud already delete..



This was the only solution what is worked for me, after I deleted my device under find my iPhone at icloud.com.

Thank You so much! 😀

Aug 14, 2015 8:02 AM in response to Furiator

I don't know that it is right place but i have an iphone 5 with ios 7.0.4 icloud locked when I checked find my iphone on official icloud page it said find my iphone switched off when i press next after connecting to wifi it says invalid sim so the question is how can i get to the next page can j.v/g.v whatever it's name is will work? PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME WAITING FOR SOMEONES REPLY

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