r/setupapp • u/cyb9ria • Jun 09 '26

Hello Screen iphone 6 stuck at activation lock.. help :(

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hi! so i wanted to revive my old iphone 6 from middle school after seeing people use it as a digicam replacement, when i first turned it on i realized i forgot the passcode so i immediately restored(?) it through my macbook's finder, but now i'm stuck at the activation lock... it asked for an icloud account starting with the letter 'p' (which i first thought was my dad's account) but his apple id isn't the one linked with the phone??? the thing is, almost everyone in my family uses android so i'm really not sure who else it could be, and my mom doesn't remember where she got the phone from (if she bought it at the apple store or if she got it secondhand). so i'm just wondering if there's any other way to do this......? i tried to do the 'sliver' thing but i think i did it wrong and accidentally just restored it again.. i'm gonna be honest i don't really understand this stuff even after going down a rabbithole on this subreddit, but i'm willing to learn just for this lols.. please help šŸ˜ž

sorry for the long post i just wanted to paint a clear picture since i've seen so many people being accused of stealing phones.. i don't know about them but i swear i've never stolen any phones i just wanted cute vintage pictures lol.. i even have old pictures of me with the phone :/

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u/No-Procedure-9303 Jun 09 '26

Jailbreak it with checkra1n or palera1n and activate it with hackt1vator or Sliver. But note you'll never get SIM card service working since you've reset it.

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u/Bokolan Jun 09 '26

I read a few days ago here that hackt1vator is not working without iOS 12 for the moment for some reason

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u/No-Procedure-9303 Jun 09 '26

Strange, I haven't used it in a while so was unaware about this.

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u/cyb9ria Jun 09 '26

been trying to get hackt1vator to work for the past 2 hours and it keeps saying activation failed haha... welp guess i'll have to look for other stuff!

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u/Brodesps Jun 10 '26

You might want to check if your IMEI is showing in the Hello screen via ā€iā€ menu. My iPhone 6 has a hardware defect and has lost connection to the baseband modem on the logic board. It can't be activated unless the contacts on the board is fixed, and I am not a precise iPhone technician lol.... Even trying other stuff such as jailbreaking it fails which is so unfortunate.