iphone find my phone is turned on

sparky260500

Hi all a friend of mine bought a iphone and when he got it home he found out that the find my phone is on is there any way he can turn this off as he doesn't have the i cloud password.

geek_girl

reset to factory settings might work - but I don't know if that needs a password to do

Kingsd316

No, there is no way around this and is a security measure to stop the sale of stolen phones, it can only be turned off by the owner of the icloud account it is activated to.

If a phone is legitimately purchased then there should be no issue getting the seller to deactivate it from their account

Restoring it will make no difference

corf999

IIRC restoring it will make it unusable without the icloud password

Kingsd316

corf999 wrote: »

IIRC restoring it will make it unusable without the icloud password

Correct, a restore will require the icloud password to get past the activation lock

sparky260500

Kingsd316 wrote: »

No, there is no way around this and is a security measure to stop the sale of stolen phones, it can only be turned off by the owner of the icloud account it is activated to.

If a phone is legitimately purchased then there should be no issue getting the seller to deactivate it from their account

Restoring it will make no difference

if only it was that easy it was legitimately purchased the seller can not be found

Kingsd316

sparky260500 wrote: »

if only it was that easy it was legitimately purchased the seller can not be found

Unfortunately then you have an expensive paperweight.

I wasn't suggesting you didn't buy it legitimately but it sounds like the person who you bought it from knew exactly what they were doing if you now cannot get hold of them.

d123

sparky260500 wrote: »

if only it was that easy it was legitimately purchased the seller can not be found

If the seller was legit how come you can't get in contact? Surely you must have gone around to their address to buy the phone? Phoned or emailed them to make the arrangements?

If you didn't and bought it in a pub car park (for example), was it really legit in the first place?

It's a paperweight until you get the previous owner to remove their iCloud...

sparky260500

Is there really nothing that can be done at all. can't apple reset it.

TadleyBaggie

They could, but they won't without substantial proof the phone has not been stolen.

Kingsd316

nothing can be done, it's an anti theft measure so Apple won't help either.