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> Unfortunately, Apple doesn't make it easy to see whether a phone is iCloud locked. They used to have a convenient online tool for this, but took it down. Huh
by mseebach 9y ago
> Unfortunately, Apple doesn't make it easy to see whether a phone is iCloud locked. They used to have a convenient online tool for this, but took it down.
Huh, that seems like an obvious thing for Apple to not just provide, but to make extremely easy to use and actually promote. Run a simple stolen/not stolen check from NFC by tapping another phone, or something like that. Perhaps be able to put a message on the check from iCloud to enable easy positive proof of ownership.
- phonon 9y agoI think there were some issues that robbers would be checking it, so demanded passwords etc. in the robbery to prevent it from being locked. So Apple made it harder to access to the public.
- mikeash 9y agoIf the robbers were willing to go to that much trouble, they could just ask the victims to wipe the phone on the spot to remove the activation lock. It'll work either way, no need to know in advance whether it's locked or not.
- phonon 9y agoThis is the best explanation I could find. http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/01/31/apple-probably-took-down-icloud-activation-lock-tool-to-prevent-hacks-relying-on-stolen-serial-numbers/ http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/01/31/apple-probably-took-...