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Aug 7, 2016 9:00 AM in response to Meg St._Clairby Ozzie94,To be honest if i do what are they going to do with it if they cant contact the owner.
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Aug 7, 2016 9:08 AM in response to Ozzie94by Michael Black,A simple restore will not remove activation lock. You won't be able to do anything with it.
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Aug 7, 2016 9:11 AM in response to Ozzie94by TOBALL,nope the activation lock is on the appel's servers just the right owner can erase the phone
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Aug 7, 2016 9:20 AM in response to Ozzie94by Csound1,Ozzie94 wrote:
To be honest if i do what are they going to do with it if they cant contact the owner.
It will save you from being the one who stole it.
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Aug 7, 2016 9:21 AM in response to Ozzie94by Bakhtina,1. Get the serial number.
Find the serial number or IMEI on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch - Apple Support
2. Contact the local police to see if anyone has reported this phone as lost.
3. Contact the carrier to see if they can contact the original owner of the device.
I don't know in which country you are and which laws apply to unclaimed lost electronic devices, but the police should tell you at step 2.
Assuming no one is able to contact the original owner of the device and you get to keep it... is the iPhone usable?
3 things can potentially keep you from using the iPhone :
1. Blacklist : Maybe the person who lost the iPhone thinks it was stolen. They can have is blacklisted so no one can use it with any carrier.
2. Activation Lock : Check https://www.icloud.com/activationlock/. If this feature is enabled on the device, you won't be able to use it, even if you erase the device, because the activation system won't let you activate it.
3. Carrier lock : If the iPhone is locked to a carrier, you can ask them to unlock it (see How to unlock your iPhone for use with another carrier - Apple Support), but some carriers may not offer unlocking, especially if you are not even in the country they do business in. You could still leave the SIM card in so the phone will activate even if there is no service on that SIM card anymore. It will basically become a big iPod (no phone calls, no SMS messages).
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Aug 7, 2016 10:15 AM in response to Michael Blackby Ozzie94,ive heard that a restore removes the password, tbh im not after the phone but seems like the owner was in holiday and left it here or would of come back long time.
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Aug 7, 2016 10:18 AM in response to Bakhtinaby Ozzie94,Hi thanks for you suggestions.
The phone is fully working its connected to a carrier and internet but i cannot read the which carrier. in chinese writing or something like that.
I dont actually need the phone but just wondered this since the owner has not contacted and can give the phone to someone in need.
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Aug 7, 2016 10:20 AM in response to Ozzie94by Michael Black,You heard wrong - it will not bypass activation lock (and activation lock would be utterly pointless if it were that simply defeated). And I'd ignore the previous advice about calling the police. The police are not going to give out any information about someone else or their property to any private citizen caller. They'll tell you the same thing - bring the device to them and they will investigate if it is reported stolen or not. But they are not going to divulge anything to you just because you asked about it.