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Bought an used iphone with locked apple id.

I purchased an iphone xr red colour. I didn’t know it was having icloud locked. The guy fooled me. I after lost of research i found the primary user. I mean first user. I told him each and everything. Im asking him to remove your acc. But he’s saying I’ll contact apple first.

Posted on Oct 24, 2019 9:48 PM

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Posted on Oct 25, 2019 6:33 AM

you will need to contact the previous owner to have them log out of iCloud or go to iCloud.com/Find My Phone and erase the device, then remove it from their account. If you can’t do that, the device is useless. Apple won't help.


Activation Lock - Turn off Find My iPhone 

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Bought an used iphone with locked apple id.

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