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Q: i found lost apple mini

I found a lost apple mini in the middle of the road, 2-2016. Not sure if it has the "locate my lost device" application on it. No one resembling the photo on the home screen has come to me for it yet. The home screen is numerically locked. Seems as if the owner must have left it on the roof of their car as they were driving away. I took it to a local tablet and phone repair store where there the tech was able to look up the iPad where the tech found and told me that it has a icloud account. I asked "if it were possible, how would I be able to return it", the tech replied, "there really is no way of finding the owner because of the icloud account, the icloud account locks out any possible recovery method, and tis would render the iPad as a paper weight."

 

I took the iPad to other local repair shops, 2 or 3, and I was told similar outcomes that come with a icloud account set up. Seems such a waste that if I were the original owner and forgot my login passwords, and other account security information that there would be no alternate method for recovery and salvage for the device then to just consider it a complete and total loss.

 

It may be just a rumor, but I did mention to someone in conversation recently about the iPad and the situation. I was later told that, "it can be unlocked, and that unlocking it would be as simple as resetting a used phone."

I am still waiting for some sign of the owner through the use of the "find my lost device" application. I don't carry it with me, so I suppose I will have to wait until someone knocks on my door that has the same face as the person on the home screen.

 

IS THERE SOME TRUTH ON SALVAGING THIS IPAD MINI ?

iPad Mini, I would like to claim this iPad !!

Posted on Jul 7, 2016 12:51 PM

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