How can I open my iPhone activation lock without owner's account

hello sukanya ,

you can contact apple care at the following link :https://getsupport.apple.com/ContactInfo.action by registering here you will get there toll free contact no. and apple does not charge any cost for this .its free of cost because you are a true owner of that device you have already paid for it when you have purchaed that device. 🙂

thank you

I don't think this is going to bypass the activation lock. Otherwise, people can just make up a fake bill of sale, provide it to Apple, and then the iPhone becomes theirs. I think the device will still be tied to the original owner and only they can delete it from their account. If it was as simple as providing an invoice, receipt, or bill of sale, people wouldn't be having this issue on a daily basis. Reports lately have proven that device thefts are slowing down due to activation lock issues.

Ankit is correct!

all you need is Proof of purchase and it needs to have certain info on it

that gets submitted to the find my iPhone department and they get that verified to make sure it is legit and if so they unlock it. If not the deny the request.

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Sadly you can't. Let me share my experience,if it helps anyone. I recently purchased an iPhone 5s from a previous user. It was the first time I bought an apple device and was unknown to the world of Apple products. I didn't even knew that something like activation lock works. If you want to buy a second hand iPhone and stay out of the activation lock,just make sure the user isn't signed out of his iCloud account from the device(rare case,MINE). I guess the previous owner was naive about Apple products too.Don't reset the phone and just simply logout from his ID and sign-in with your own.

You may find this strange but till now I had been using the iPhone without iCloud signed in from the previous owner or my account ( kept getting the maximum number of free accounts error ) . So that's the best I can tell you. After you have your own Apple id created , you can reset the phone again . And with iOS having 'find my iPhone' as a stock app I think it will be necessary to have an iCloud id associated with the device.I btw have 2 id's on my iPhone , one for iCloud and one for App Store.

suigip wrote:

What if you don't know the person email, then who would you contact them to ask them to disable it btw am not that good in my english.

If you cannot contact the person who set the lock the phone is useless. It can never be used by you or anyone else.

windymiller55 wrote:

I bought an iPhone 5s from a reputable auction site which sells police recovered property knowing that it

was locked to the previous owner,

Then you knowingly assumed the risk that the phone would never be usable. You made a bet and you lost. What does that have to do with Apple?

From the rest of your post it is clear that you bought a lost or stolen device. Activation Lock is a theft deterrent, and it clearly did its job. If Apple made exceptions for stolen phones it would negate the purpose of having Activation Lock in the first place.

windymiller55 wrote:

I did say that it was bought from a reputable auction site selling

recovered police property items, so does that not make me the owner !

You may be in possession of the device but you are not the owner. The owner apparently never gave the auction site release to sell their lost or stolen property it would seem as they did not remove activation lock before the auction. The auction site or the police before them could have contacted the owner just as you did - either they did not or the owner simpy refused to remove the lock (which is their right to do). In that case, the "reputable" auction site should never have sold the item at all, and in fact I'd argue the police should have destroyed it as unclaimed items not suitable for auction.

Regardless of how you slice it, Apple is not part of any of it.

No. There doesn't. What there needs to be is come common sense and personal responsibility on the part of buyers.

Apple has provided a method of checking whether the device is activation locked or not.

Automatically removing the lock after a period of time would completely defeat the purpose of activation lock as a theft deterrent. All a thief would have to do would be sit on it for a month before they try to use/sell it.

I may be assuming too much here, but I might recommend returning it to the owner. (I've had one stolen so I'm a little sensitive)

No way

Julian ....

I bought a phone on eBay and I can't get the Apple ID claim removed either and we (u and I) are "SOL" **** out of luck getting it unlocked unless the Apple ID "owner" does it ....so the phones are useless. I'm trying to get my money back from "eBay Insurance" and hoping for the best. Hope that your situation turns out better than mine! Blessings!

mictance50 wrote:

Message from Owner: of my iphone4s Cet iPhone a été égaré. Appelez-moi s’il vous plaît. 040 6764321 asking me to call him the phone number he send to me not connect Pls need help how do i get is Email address so i can send all i need to him i receive this message from is icloud login pls help me i dont no what to do.

There is nothing you can do without the owners assistance.

I think this is all academic regarding Apple's policies. You said that you actually managed to speak to the original owner, which is more than anyone else in this thread has been able to do. Based on your conversation, the original owner quite clearly refused to unlock the phone. Even if Apple did bypass activation lock (which they don't), Apple isn't going to go against the original owner's wishes. Like you said, you gambled and lost. Learn from it and don't buy iCloud locked iPhones again.

If you mean Activation Lock, then only the person who set the lock can unlock it. There is no way round that.

Nobody here works for Apple. Nobody knows the previous owner's account details except the previous owner. If you cannot trace the owner you will never be able to use the phone - there is no workaround' This "scandal" is having good effect, and is spreading beyond Apple. Read this.