iPhone 5 was lost, but in order to sync my new phone (iPhone5s) I needed to turn off find my phone for the new iphone 5. The only way I could do this was to remove it. Now I can't get it back to erase the data on it. Is there a way to retrieve the phone once it is removed from the Find my iPhone device list?
iPhone 5
Blondzombie wrote:
iPhone 5 was lost, but in order to sync my new phone (iPhone5s) I needed to turn off find my phone for the new iphone 5.
Do you mean you want to restore your new iPhone from the old iPhone backup?
And you have already set up the new iPhone?
The only way I could do this was to remove it. Now I can't get it back to erase the data on it.
Remove your new iPhone from FindMyiPhone?
Get it back? Into FindMyiPhone? Of course. You turned it off.
Plug it into your computer, select it in iTunes and Restore from backup.
After it finshes restoring, make sure Settings > iCloud - FindMyiPhone is enabled.
Replace a device on Find my iPhone that I removed
