iCloud lock or Find My iPhone Activation Lock prevents someone from stealing an iPhone, erasing it and using it as their own. It can also lock out users who forget their information or who buy a used ...

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 ...

Starting with iOS 7, deleting an iCloud account or restoring a device requires Find My iPhone to be disabled. Find My iPhone, in turn, requires the user to enter the ...

Apple has launched its "Activation Lock" which would be available for use to everyone who has retrieved their Apple device after being stolen or locked from the iCloud website, provided that they ...

Apple’s Activation Lock feature first introduced in iOS 7 prevents thieves from using your stolen iPhone or iPad as their own, but a new trick has been discovered that allows users to bypass the iOS 8 ...

Two researchers have found a way to bypass the Apple Activation Lock on both iPhones and iPads, running the two most recent versions of iOS, 10.1 and 10.1.1. If you're not familiar with the Activation ...

Have hackers killed the iOS kill switch? So claims a pair of hackers, who say they've found a way to hijack the connection between a lost and locked iPhone and Apple's servers, thus unlocking the ...

These fields were not intended to process overlong strings of characters, and the iPad will gradually slow down and then freeze as the strings become longer. During one of these freezes, rotate the ...

Apple's Activation Lock feature, introduced in iOS 7 in 2013, deters thieves by associating your iPhone and iPad with your Apple ID. Even if a thief steals your device, puts it into Recovery Mode, and ...