If you have the original receipt from when the Apple Watch was purchased from Apple or an authorized reseller, a copy of the will and/or a Letter Testamentary showing it was willed to you and a Death Certificate you can provide these to Apple and they will clear it for you.
This is going to sound a bit odd but a family member passed a fair while ago and I have inherited his Apple Watch, problem is now I'm trying to set it up and require his Apple ID and Password but as he died pretty suddenly, no one has this information. Is there any way to sort this problem for example special exceptions for removing activation locks in the case of owner death?
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A death certificate? Really? Gosh. Is it otherwise useless without all that? Seems a bit insensitive to ask my grandmother for a copy of her husbands death certificate just to use a little gadget.
If Activation Lock was on the Watch it is unusable. Speak to the Executor of the Estate, you will need more than a copy of the death certificate.
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