> > Locking every iDevice by default so that it can’t be reused > What? A big problem when buying/selling used ipads is the "icloud lock". Essentially it's an

> > Locking every iDevice by default so that it can’t be reused > What? A big problem when buying/selling used ipads is the "icloud lock". Essentially it's an anti-theft lock. But it's often frustrating in many non-theft cases. If you buy an iPhone or iPad and it's not unregistered from the original owner's icloud account, there is no way to do that. At all. You cannot factory reset it. You cannot erase it's disk (it'll refuse to activate). So this makes a great many iDevices useless. It does, I must say, prevent theft. It's certainly not a one-way street.