Q: After updating, iPhone asks for original owners iCloud after I turned off Find My iPhone.
I recently bought a used iPhone 5 and I had the owner turn off Find My iPhone, log off iCloud, reset the phone and let me log into my iCloud account. I was logged onto it for about three weeks and it was connected to the Internet. The other day I was playing with it and noticed the compass wasn't working so I decided to restore the phone from 8.1.1 to 8.1.2. I reset the phone first and it removed my iCloud from the phone. I got an email confirming that it was taken off my account.
After the update was complete I went through the activation process and it told me I needed to log onto the previous owners account to continue. What gives? They removed it from their account and I was the last person to use Find My iPhone on the device. Why did it reactivate? I now have an expensive paper weight that I bought legitimately.
iPhone 5, iOS 8.1.2
Posted on Jan 15, 2015 1:53 PM