Hi everybody, I sold my Apple Watch and removed it from all my Apple iCloud profiles, 'Find my iPhone' etc., even disabled 'Find My iPhone' on the iPhone it was connected to – but the activation lock still is active, the buyer is always prompted to enter my iCloud ID and password. As he is quite far away now, I am not there to type it in and don't know anymore what to do.
(Besides giving out my iCloud password to him.) Has anybody a hint why the activation lock still is active? I got a replacement watch (dead pixel on the first one) with a different serial number a few months ago – anybody heard of trouble with 'My devices' because of this, not correctly (de-)registering the replacement? Hi everybody, I sold my Apple Watch and removed it from all my Apple iCloud profiles, 'Find my iPhone' etc., even disabled 'Find My iPhone' on the iPhone it was connected to – but the activation lock still is active, the buyer is always prompted to enter my iCloud ID and password. As he is quite far away now, I am not there to type it in and don't know anymore what to do. (Besides giving out my iCloud password to him.) Has anybody a hint why the activation lock still is active? I got a replacement watch (dead pixel on the first one) with a different serial number a few months ago – anybody heard of trouble with 'My devices' because of this, not correctly (de-)registering the replacement?
(Besides giving out my iCloud password to him.) Has anybody a hint why the activation lock still is active? I got a replacement watch (dead pixel on the first one) with a different serial number a few months ago – anybody heard of trouble with 'My devices' because of this, not correctly (de-)registering the replacement? Click to expand.Hey, hey, hey. All official Apple documents – that includes yours if you genius are willing to read it until the end – say that the previous owner can remotely deactivate the activation lock when he deletes the watch from his devices / Find my iPhone in his iCloud account account.
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I've done so with all my iPhones, iPads etc. Before with I deleted completely before selling and un-added then in iCloud 'My linked devices'/Find my iPhone.
And that's the way it should and has to be. What kind of a system would it be not being able to disable the activation lock online even when you have full control over your iCloud / Apple ID account it is still linked to?! Click to expand.AW is extension of iPhone. It is different than iPhone or iPad. As slave of iPhone. I will never sell my AW without unpair and completely erase. Heck, I might erase twice, or three times.
It is just not a good idea to give away my own personal info inside AW. Common sense in this day of age easily someone could extract personal info from unerased data. There is no safe route WITHOUT erase personal info before give away any electronic device. If you read AW online instruction BEFORE you sell the watch, carefully, double check, in order to ensure not give away your personal info in AW, you will know better to not sell AW without unpair AND erase. AW is extension of iPhone.
It is different than iPhone or iPad. As slave of iPhone.
I will never sell my AW without unpair and completely erase. Heck, I might erase twice, or three times. It is just not a good idea to give away my own personal info inside AW. Common sense in this day of age easily someone could extract personal info from unerased data. There is no safe route WITHOUT erase personal info before give away any electronic device. If you read AW online instruction BEFORE you sell the watch, carefully, double check, in order to ensure not give away your personal info in AW, you will know better to not sell AW without unpair AND erase.
Click to expand.I trust the buyer. and would have changed the password immediately after he unlocked the watch. However, you are totally correct, of course, and giving him my iCloud password (which one should definitely never do) would have been the very last 'desperate' instrument – therefore I am glad that after calling Apple, they will now manually unlock the watch in their system.He also sent me a screenshot showing that it is MY Apple ID which still locks the watch – which he doesn't know. Click to expand.Sorry – to me, disabling and deleting an Apple device from my iCloud devices / 'Find My iPhone' always was the relevant step to 'free' it for the next owner. I know better now, but considering that it did these steps (and additionally erased my watch – a step which implies giving it 'free' first, too), you surely can't deny me common sense.
Finally, if it isn't possible for an iCloud user with full access to his account to manage your devices online (and, again, again, again: Apple even describes in its official documents as the working remote way and confirmed me on the telephone that it should have worked), the system simply would be wrong. Lose/break your iPhone without a backup, you can throw your Apple watch to the trash, too? What's next, taking you every possibility of changing your iCloud password or whatever if you don't still have the Apple device anymore? Sorry – to me, disabling and deleting an Apple device from my iCloud devices / 'Find My iPhone' always was the relevant step to 'free' it for the next owner.
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I know better now, but considering that it did these steps (and additionally erased my watch – a step which implies giving it 'free' first, too), you surely can't deny me common sense. Finally, if it isn't possible for an iCloud user with full access to his account to manage your devices online (and, again, again, again: Apple even describes in its official documents as the working remote way and confirmed me on the telephone that it should have worked), the system simply would be wrong. Lose/break your iPhone without a backup, you can throw your Apple watch to the trash, too? What's next, taking you every possibility of changing your iCloud password or whatever if you don't still have the Apple device anymore? Click to expand.It's funny that you've proven in every single of your posts that you.still.
fail to read (and understand) what I have explained multiple times regarding having erased my Apple watch before selling or/and having called Apple Care which unlocked the watch - within two hours, btw - without having to give out any personal data. You should really work on your reading skills - and your manners, even or.especially. on the Internet, calling other people lazy idiots without need and reason. Frustrated much by your life?
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