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

windymiller55 wrote:

"I did not say it was a reputable police auction site",

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 !

So which is it?

Im not sure you have quite grasped where I am coming from, I bought a

brand new iPhone 5s for the price of a few beef-burgers from McDonalds,

I took a punt, it did not work out, am i bellyaching, If I was the iphone would

have gone back, no problem.

Then what are you posting about in the first place? You originally seemed to be proposing the thesis that Apple should unlock phones in a similar situation to yours, and as has been said this is not going to happen. Apple's responsibility is to the original owner of the phone and no-one else.

windymiller55 wrote:

Im not sure you have quite grasped where I am coming from, I bought a

brand new iPhone 5s for the price of a few beef-burgers from McDonalds,

I took a punt, it did not work out, am i bellyaching, If I was the iphone would

have gone back, no problem.

As there is no problem I'll just say goodbye to you now.

In my naivety I thought that Apple encouraged their communities to comment

on issues that they thought relevant, in my opinion, obviously from your point

of view I am wrong and you think this issue is not worth discussing.

As to Apple only having responsibility to the original owner of the phone and

no one else, your quote, are you quite sure, a lot of people who bought

second hand phones will not be pleased with your comments.

I think the statement "Apple's responsibility is to the original owner of the phone and no-one else" should probably be rephrased to "Apple's responsibility is to the person the iOS device is currently locked to." As you stated, many people buy second hand and used iOS devices and hopefully anyone reading this thread will know to make sure the activation lock has been removed by the original owner so they don't run into a similar situation.

IT sounds like a reputable site if they told you it was activation locked. As activation lock has been around for 2 years now, and has been widely discussed in news sources worldwide, it mystifies me why anyone would buy an activation locked phone knowing that it would be unusable except as a source of spare parts.

Best thing for all you people is to stop buying Apple Products ever again and look for android mobiles with similar or better functionality so that Apple will take a retreat from such policies adversely affecting genuine buyers of their phone either from apple stores or from secondary markets. I am saying this as I am a victim of Activation Lock Screen which rendered my own i phone 4 in to a brick. It surprising to read many commenting that the Apple can not do any thing about it. They can do every thing with your device as your device is perpetually connected to their server. Though you may pay money to buy the product, in practice the company owns and controls all your devices and they can render them useless whenever they want and create **** for you. So this is what is happening now all in the name and false pretext of security.

Hi

The Apple id lock is the best thing that Apple has done

Iphones/ iPads stolen / lost are no use only to the owner

If you had your way we would all leave key in cars and say help your self.

People who buy iPhones/ iPads should ask if find my iPhone has been

Turned off.

Ebay will give a full refund if iPhone is locked.

Cheers

Brian (uk)

Sebastian Koylerian wrote:

Best thing for all you people is to stop buying Apple Products ever again and look for android mobiles with similar or better functionality so that Apple will take a retreat from such policies adversely affecting genuine buyers of their phone either from apple stores or from secondary markets. I am saying this as I am a victim of Activation Lock Screen which rendered my own i phone 4 in to a brick. It surprising to read many commenting that the Apple can not do any thing about it. They can do every thing with your device as your device is perpetually connected to their server. Though you may pay money to buy the product, in practice the company owns and controls all your devices and they can render them useless whenever they want and create **** for you. So this is what is happening now all in the name and false pretext of security.

Good luck with that.

Activation locks and similar "kill switches" are quickly being mandated by law in many places. The best thing to do is use a little common sense when purchasing things to make sure they are in fact, usable before you shell out your money.

Sebastian Koylerian wrote:

They can do every thing with your device as your device is perpetually connected to their server. Though you may pay money to buy the product, in practice the company owns and controls all your devices and they can render them useless whenever they want and create **** for you. So this is what is happening now all in the name and false pretext of security.

No one is required to activate Find My iPhone. Most of us choose to do so as it contributes to making iPhones a less desirable target of theft. iPhones used to account for about 30% of non-violent thefts in New York City prior to the implementation of Activation Lock.

You don't have to lock your phone. You don't have to lock your house. You can post your email password on the internet. No one here really cares.

Sebastian Koylerian wrote:

Best thing for all you people is to stop buying Apple Products ever again and look for android mobiles with similar or better functionality so that Apple will take a retreat from such policies

Maybe the best thing for you, but most of us are smart enough not to buy a locked phone, and you don't speak for us.

Michael Black wrote:

Activation lock has a major impact on iPhone theft and is one of the best new features Apple has introduced in a long time. Android phone makers are scrambling to catch up with something similar, and many Android forums are full of posts asking for just that.

Samsung now offers something similar.

Thanks Meg - I read through a few news posts after seeing your post and I see it is even called "reactivation lock". 😁 I gather anything sold in CA now requires a kill switch? Samsung even has the same sort of feature with a Samsung online account and the ability to track your phone remotely. Between this sort of thing and improvements in carrier blacklist sharing, hopefully phone theft will become a wholly pointless crime.

But it also should emphasize to everyone buying used devices from effectively anonymous online sources - any smart phone may prove useless to you, not just iPhones.

They do not have to give you any personal information at all. All they need to do to remove activation lock is log in to their iCloud account in a web browser on a computer and remove the device from their list of tracked devices.