How can I permanently remove devices from appleid.apple.com?

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How can I permanently remove devices from appleid.apple.com?

If I log into icloud.com with my appleid, I see just my devices attached there. If I log into appleid.apple.com, I see 28 of them. These are all devices I've used in the past, plus my current ones. If I remove the old ones, when I look a day or so later, they're back.

Can anyone explain what's going on here? How do I remove them permanently?

I would assume it just lists everything I've ever used, but some I've used aren't listed. What makes some of them go away, and what makes some stay?

iPhone 7, iOS 12

Posted on Sep 25, 2018 5:51 PM

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Eric Root

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Sep 25, 2018 8:49 PM in response to nuw

If you have access to the devices, sign then out of iCloud.

See the remove section of this article.

Apple ID device list -Check to see where you‘re signed in

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Eric Root

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Sep 28, 2018 8:46 PM in response to nuw

It should, but I'm not able to test if that will be enough to stop them from showing up.

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nuw Author

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Sep 28, 2018 8:33 PM in response to Eric Root

I can probably do that, but it might take months to do them all.

From the article:

"If you're still signed in with your Apple ID on the device, it might reappear on your account page the next time your device connects to the Internet. To permanently remove the device from your account page, sign out of iCloud, iTunes, iMessage, FaceTime, and Game Center, or erase the device."

If that's how it is then that's how it is, but I'd li,e to understand why. What's the point of being able to remove a device remotely if it's just going to come back?

If I was to change the password too, would that stop them reconnecting?

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How can I permanently remove devices from appleid.apple.com?

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