Jimmybobway

Q: Deleting old devices from ICloud

Evidently if you criticize Apple in any way on this forum it is considered a rant or not constructive so I will refrain from any comments about the programming skills at the aforementioned company as my previous post was deleted by the moderator.  Like many people in this discussion thead I did a full factory restore thinking that now I could part from my old 4s and it would be gone from my life. Now the phone is no longer in my possession but it remains connected to my ICloud account even though it has supposedly been wiped clean.  Even though I have turned off Photo Streaming it still sends all the photos to my old phone from my ICloud account so that the new owner receives all my most recent photos as I take them.  After trying everything suggested in this over 12 page thread it appears that the only solution is to wait the two or three months until the device is deleted.   So wouldn't it be nice if when you did a full factory restore that the device was actually returned to its original factory condition with no connection to anything previously on your phone such as ICloud.  Wouldn't it be nice if the old phone was like a new pristine Iphone as I and others assumed after doing the restore. If the programmers can not figure out how to do a full factory restore wouldn't it be nice that during the process they would notify you how to delete your phone from the ICloud before you part with the phone. Wouldn't it be nice that you could go into your ICloud account and delete a device even though it may no longer be in your possession. Maybe just click next to the device in ICloud and delete it seems like it would be a simple solution.  Wouldn't it be nice if Apple would give you options to determine to what degree you wish to connect to your ICloud account instead of defaulting to settings that the user may not be aware of or not wish to use.  By the way I have spent ovet $3000 on Apple products in the last year so I feel like I am entitled to my two cents worth.

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Posted on Feb 10, 2015 10:06 AM

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