1. Go to iCloud.com and sign in with their Apple ID. 2. Select Find My. 3. Click All Devices and choose the locked iPhone. 4. Select Remove. After the device is removed, restart the iPhone and set it ...

Activation Lock is condemning even 2020 Macs to a future as spare parts and landfill, by making it impossible for them to be restored to use. To be fair to Apple, the technology is only part of the ...

There’s no question that the iPhone 5S and iOS 7 together make for the best phone ever made. The din of offhand, dismissive criticism from the Android fan base that Apple never innovates should be ...

An increasing number of iPhone users are experiencing an Activation Lock issue in which the device is linked to an Apple ID email address that does not belong to them, according to crowdsourced ...

Apple added Find My to AirPods in 2021, and it’s causing problems for resellers of these wireless headphones. Many people are unaware that their AirPods now support Activation Lock, which means they ...

Way back in 1996 I was fortunate enough to win the "Technology Journalist of the Year" award in the U.K. for an investigation into security threats facing the rapidly evolving internet. I have been ...

If you ever donate an old smartphone, make sure you put it through a factory reset. One electronics recycler in Colorado had to scrap tens of thousands of old, but perfectly usable iPhones because ...

Apple recently removed the Activation Lock status checker from its website, giving no explanation as to why a seemingly useful tool was eliminated. The Activation Lock website was designed to make ...

Yesterday we heard that Apple had released a new iOS 9.3 update. The update was initially released at the end of last week, and now they have released another version of the software. This rapid ...

Apple on Monday pushed out yet another new build of its iOS 9.3 mobile operating system, attempting to fix issues related to an Activation Lock bug that presented itself on older iPhones and iPads.

If you buy an iPhone second-hand and it has iCloud Activation Lock activated, and the seller is unavailable, you can still get going with the iPhone. Here's how to remove iCloud Activation Lock ...

Apple today launched a utility on its website that allows anyone to check the activation lock status of an iPhone handset. Users will be required to provide the IMEI or serial number of the device ...