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I want to pass my iPhone on to a friend. I backed up his old phone and restored it to the new one. After restarting it I see this:

Activate iPhone

This is the case, because I had "find"Find my iphone"iPhone" activated and did not deactivate it before restoring my friends backup.

I followed the instructions of Find My iPhone Activation Lock: Removing a device from a previous owner’s account and removed the phone from my account, by open icloud.com/#find and deleteopening icloud.com/#find and removeremoving it.

The problem is, I can still not activate it. Neither with my Apple ID nor with the Apple idID of my friend. I hoped that the deletion and removal from my account would just might take some minutes or even hours, but 12 hours later, the problem still exists.

Anything else I can try?

I want to pass my iPhone on to a friend. I backed up his old phone and restored it to the new one. After restarting it I see this:

Activate iPhone

This is the case, because I had "find my iphone" activated and did not deactivate it before restoring my friends backup.

I followed the instructions of Find My iPhone Activation Lock: Removing a device from a previous owner’s account and removed the phone from my account, by open icloud.com/#find and delete and remove it.

The problem is, I can still not activate it. Neither with my nor with the Apple id of my friend. I hoped that the deletion and removal from my account would just might take some minutes or even hours, but 12 hours later, the problem still exists.

Anything else I can try?

I want to pass my iPhone on to a friend. I backed up his old phone and restored it to the new one. After restarting it I see this:

This is the case, because I had "Find my iPhone" activated and did not deactivate it before restoring my friends backup.

I followed the instructions of Find My iPhone Activation Lock: Removing a device from a previous owner’s account and removed the phone from my account, by opening icloud.com/#find and removing it.

The problem is, I can still not activate it. Neither with my Apple ID nor with the Apple ID of my friend. I hoped that the deletion and removal from my account would just might take some minutes or even hours, but 12 hours later, the problem still exists.

Anything else I can try?

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Tim Büthe
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How to activate a used iPhone bound to another account (already removed from iCloud)?

I want to pass my iPhone on to a friend. I backed up his old phone and restored it to the new one. After restarting it I see this:

Activate iPhone

This is the case, because I had "find my iphone" activated and did not deactivate it before restoring my friends backup.

I followed the instructions of Find My iPhone Activation Lock: Removing a device from a previous owner’s account and removed the phone from my account, by open icloud.com/#find and delete and remove it.

The problem is, I can still not activate it. Neither with my nor with the Apple id of my friend. I hoped that the deletion and removal from my account would just might take some minutes or even hours, but 12 hours later, the problem still exists.

Anything else I can try?