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Good luck if you had "find my phone" turned on.

by RMacy 13y ago

onats 13y ago
I have Find My Phone turned on. Can I just upgrade / restore the iPhone?
- tpurves 13y ago
  If you have find my phone turned on: 0. Go to iCloud and disable find my phone for your device 1. Download the GM final OS7 build 2. Restart in recovery mode: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808#sthash.qByAjn0z.dpuf http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808#sthash.qByAjn0z.dpuf 3. Do NOT click ok when prompted to restore your phone 4. Click the secret command/alt combination with the restore button. 5. Select the downloaded OS7 file. your phone will fix itself Real asshole move of Apple to suddenly brick your phone then provide no instruction for how to do this instead of... you know just allowing the phone to automatically update or activate. Hope that you didn't have anything better to do with your life for the last hour.
  - joeld42 13y ago
    Thank you for posting this. I was in this boat and I don't think I would have figured it out otherwise. I owe you a beer. Also, in case anyone else is reading this, I was also getting mysterious "Unknown Errors" from iTunes when trying the restore, it was because I hadn't updated iTunes to the very very latestest.
emp 13y ago
Required starting in DFU mode + restore. Didn't think to try option + update as eggbrain mentioned above. Does this mean Find My iPhone can be circumvented with a DFU mode restore?
- taspeotis 13y ago
  > Does this mean Find My iPhone can be circumvented with a DFU mode restore? I am just speculating, but perhaps iOS 7 GM and later cannot be circumvented but the beta versions could be. This might be intentional - after all, it's beta code. The circumvention might be a plan B.
- maqr 13y ago
  I just made the same mistake, restoring with DFU. It doesn't bypass the Find My iPhone lock though, you still need to do the activation, but it will let you activate.
selectodude 13y ago
Why? Because you have to type in your Apple ID and password once you do the DFU restore?

Good luck if you had "find my phone" turned on.

by RMacy 13y ago

Good luck if you had "find my phone" turned on.

onats 13y ago

I have Find My Phone turned on. Can I just upgrade / restore the iPhone?

tpurves 13y ago
If you have find my phone turned on: 0. Go to iCloud and disable find my phone for your device 1. Download the GM final OS7 build 2. Restart in recovery mode: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808#sthash.qByAjn0z.dpuf http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808#sthash.qByAjn0z.dpuf 3. Do NOT click ok when prompted to restore your phone 4. Click the secret command/alt combination with the restore button. 5. Select the downloaded OS7 file. your phone will fix itself Real asshole move of Apple to suddenly brick your phone then provide no instruction for how to do this instead of... you know just allowing the phone to automatically update or activate. Hope that you didn't have anything better to do with your life for the last hour.
- joeld42 13y ago
  Thank you for posting this. I was in this boat and I don't think I would have figured it out otherwise. I owe you a beer. Also, in case anyone else is reading this, I was also getting mysterious "Unknown Errors" from iTunes when trying the restore, it was because I hadn't updated iTunes to the very very latestest.

emp 13y ago

Required starting in DFU mode + restore. Didn't think to try option + update as eggbrain mentioned above. Does this mean Find My iPhone can be circumvented with a DFU mode restore?

taspeotis 13y ago
> Does this mean Find My iPhone can be circumvented with a DFU mode restore? I am just speculating, but perhaps iOS 7 GM and later cannot be circumvented but the beta versions could be. This might be intentional - after all, it's beta code. The circumvention might be a plan B.
maqr 13y ago
I just made the same mistake, restoring with DFU. It doesn't bypass the Find My iPhone lock though, you still need to do the activation, but it will let you activate.

selectodude 13y ago

Why? Because you have to type in your Apple ID and password once you do the DFU restore?