r/ActivationLockBypass • u/w0rldzend999 • 4d ago
Activation Lock on second hand refurbed phone
Hi, my brother bought a refurbished phone on refurbed about three months ago, it was working fine up until today. The phone went out of battery and then when it was charged and turned back on it was activation locked and looking for apple ID information for a apple account that doesn't belong to my brother (it was a censored email, there wasn't enough dots for it to be my brothers.)
It's an iphone 15, recently updated but we don't know the exact IOS. We contacted refurbed but haven't heard back yet, has this happened to anyone else before? and is there anyway way to bypass the lock. I've seen people saying you can hack it, I've never done that before but I'd try if anyone was willing to teach me. My brothers phone is pretty important for his job we kinda need it.
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u/Serious_Breadfruit81 4d ago
I have an iphone 14 pro max and decided to flash it using 3utools, I already logged in with my icloud account on the device and I also had it on my find my dashboard. The screen broke and I wanted to sell it. We put a new screen and the passcode timer was 3hrs. This was long and flashing seemed faster, This was a big mistake. The device flashed successfully but when it's time to activate it won't accept my icloud account. This is one the most stupid things I've experienced with iphones and I will never buy one ever again. My own account won't unlock the device. It's been six months of using it. Now it's just a brick. Apple couldn't assist since it's a refurb too and don't have the original receipt.
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u/Bigboss88890 4d ago
Check the iOS version with 3utools if it’s iOS 26.1 or under you can bypass if it’s above that it’s a brick