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Unlock company owned iPhone, locked/activated with a former employees personal iCloud account.

I have repaired about 5 company owned and purchased iPhone 5s's.


I cannot unlock them becuase they were activated with ex-employee's personal iCloud accounts.


How does Apple resolve this. We own the phones, not the icloud account.

Posted on Aug 24, 2015 2:32 PM

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Posted on Aug 24, 2015 2:52 PM

If you purchased the devices and are the original owners, you can bring the devices and the original purchase receipts to a physical Apple Store and they should be able to help you.


But, as Kappy said, you need to develop a protocol/policy that prevents this from happening again. If you do a search of the forum, you should find similar postings and some businesses have posted some sample information on how they regulate their employees, up to and including the requirement to cover the purchase of a new device if they do not unlock the original device.

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