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> IMHO this is Apple trying to force people to purchase new devices and prevent reuse. Assuming you know your Apple ID password, disabling Activation Lock take
by culturestate 4y ago
> IMHO this is Apple trying to force people to purchase new devices and prevent reuse.
Assuming you know your Apple ID password, disabling Activation Lock takes less than 30 seconds. You can even do it remotely via Find My on the web.
It hasn't exactly curtailed the legitimate iPhone resale market in the ~seven years that it's been on by default, either, though it did produce a dramatic drop in people getting their phone snatched from their pocket[1].
1. https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/apples-activation-lock-leads-to-big-drops-in-smartphone-theft-worldwide/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/apples-activation-lock-lea...
- Terretta 4y agoRemoving it from FindMy definitely doesn't solve firmware.
- blokey 4y agoJust an idea, but, I remember something about T2 macs, and the find my integration and if you put the device into “lost mode” on the web, it sets a (numeric) firmware password as part of the ‘mark as lost’ process. I think that overrides any user set firmware password, so might allow you to recover it, Just a thought maybe a little searching can validate it before you might try?
- culturestate 4y agoI wouldn’t expect it to, since Activation Lock is tied to an Apple ID and the firmware password is local. The number of people who manually set firmware passwords on their Mac (i.e. don’t have it set as the result of MDM) instead of just using FileVault these days must be vanishingly small.