Remove Icloud Iphone 13
Cortney Ruic
Nope. You can't remove it from your account if the phone cannot communicate with the iCloud servers. This is what you're supposed to do before selling it: If you can't, you'll have to send a remote erase command to it using Find My iPhone on icloud.com ( ), which will be executed if and when the buyer reconnects it to the internet. Until the buyer does this, he/she will be able to see your data (unless it's locked with a passcode).
I sold an iPhone, and I forget to erase it (dho!...). I did enable Find my iPhone on it and can issue a remote erase command via the iCloud website. However, the SIM card was removed, so presumably the phone has to connect to the internet via WiFi. But to do this, the it seems that the new owner must connect to a WiFi network using some password, so he must open the phone with the passcode to access WiFi settings. I'd rather not give him my passcode and access to the phone contents to do this.
Another question: Could I achieve the same result simply by removing the iPhone from my iCloud account? Would this allow the buyer to activate the phone for himself? On the downside, though, would this allow him to access the data on the phone after activation (since the phone would not be erased)?
Yes, but once you remove it from your account you no longer have any control over access and use of your data. It would be much safer to keep it linked to your account so you can force it to be erased.
Does this mean that the phone was erased? I have not yet removed the phone from my iCloud account. Also, there is no indication on iCloud that the phone was actually erased. Its status is listed as "Pending: Erase iPhone".
You would normally receive an email saying that it had been erased. If you didn't receive one try contacting the Apple account security team to see if they can tell you if it had been remotely erased or not: Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security - Apple Support. I wouldn't recommend removing it from your account until you get confirmation that its been erased.
It turns out that the procedure was successful! Apple was able to erase my phone (although it never confirmed this on the iCloud account; I had to call Apple Support to confirm). I then removed the phone from the iCloud account, and, after re-powering and putting the phone into recovery mode, the buyer was able to activate and set up the phone. Thanks so much for your help, randers4, I couldn't have done tbis without you!
I got a iPhone 6s handed to me. It has no SIM card and I want to put my iCloud account, but I don't know what will happen after I log of the existing account. So I'm debating on logging out of it or not ?.
So I updated a machine with a bunch of files on the Desktop and in the Documents folder, and when I upgraded it asked me if I wanted to store these folders on iCloud as well. I hit YES and it began trying to upload everything. Now, I guess I had a large file in one of the folders because the total upload was almost 9GB (i have 200GB of available iCloud space). It failed the upload and has just been stuck on 57kb of 8.89GB uploaded for over a day. I've tried restarting and it hasn't moved. I haven't found a way to quit it either. This has been making my machine incredibly slow and has caused the fans to speed up like crazy. Anytime I try to access an Open or Save dialog, the app I'm using crashes, whether it's Preview, Xcode, Photoshop, or even Safari.
So I went to the iCloud system preferences and unchecked the "Desktop and Documents" item. I figured it wouldn't delete things that were still locally saved on my disk. But I was wrong and now every single file on both my Desktop and in my Documents is gone. Not in the trash, nowhere to be found. Gone.
Can any one help me with this? Has anyone experienced something similar? The iCloud upload is still there and still isn't progressing at all (not sure what its trying to upload anyways since the files were all deleted). My computer is unusable and my files are all gone. I have a Time Machine backup from last week, but I will not have access to for almost 2 more weeks so if there's a way to recover my files sooner and kill this upload task, that would be amazing.
I had the same thing happen to me. I unchecked the iCloud Drive Settings and then rebooted. When it came back up, it was still trying to upload the files. I think the process was called "bird". You can check in the Activity Monitor. Once I dragged all the files out of the /iCloud Folder (local) back to my documents, then I let it percolate and things ended up being okay.
I think Apple needs to put a bit more of a delay in that (e.g. maybe two acceptance boxes). When I clicked on the yes box, I completely forgot that I had several gigs of files in both my corporate and personal Dropbox folders as well as my Onedrive folder. It was the Ondrive yakking at me saying the "default folder has moved" that tipped me off to what was going on. Moving those folders created a bit of a "***" moment. It's all good and the experiece I hope will help others as well as Apple really understand the complexity of moving the contents of the Documents folder to the cloud.
hey, I think there is a way to restore deleted file from iCloud. You can find that option by logging into iCloud from the browser and go to setting. Then you will see restore files. However, the files are only kept for some days (I am not sure how long) before it is permanently removed. Good luck.
It's a bit disappointing reading this every year with every beta. People... if you read this and have not yet installed beta 1 then don't do it. At least don't install it on your primary machine, on your primary hard drive, with your primary apple id and never do it without making an disk image before. (Like with superduper or similar software).
I have confirmed that it works after I realized that most of my systems will choke on all the extra files, until they are all updated. Since a bunch of stuff breaks (Mail plug ins and my beloved AirFoil), I only have Sierra running on one partition of my Mac Pro.
Great! When i force quit "bird" on my Activity Monitor (which was using 99.7% of my CPU), it stopped the transfer and apps stopped crashing immediately on the Open / Save dialogs. It of course restarted the transfer, but now its actually progressing. I also followed advice from yellowchilli and rechecked the box and now my files re-appeared on my Desktop and in my Documents.
The same thing happened to me when I changed my apple id email account. Everything went haywire and icloud deleted my desktop and documents folders. However, when I go into "all my files" in finder, all of the files that used to be on my desktop are in the all my files section.
On SystemPreferences/iCloud/iCloud Drive/Options, I checked the "Desktop a Document Folder". After several hours, all of my D&D files appeared top be on iCloud. However, the disk usage (Unix command du) showed that my mac's disk usage had not changed. Based on further reading, I decided that I didn't want D&D on iCloud, so I copied (or moved?) the files from iCloud Drive to my mac. When I thought they were there, I unchecked SystemPreferences/iCloud/iCloud Drive/Options/ "Desktop a Document Folder". Presto! my files were gone. Both places. Only aliases remained on my mac that couldn't be resolved.
I tried the "restore" trick mentioned by another poster, above. iCloud Drive said it was trying to restore 1,000 files (a small fraction of what I had had), but reported problems doing so. None the less, many of those files were restored, without the directory structure; that is, they were simply dumped into one folder.
I don't understand iCloud Drive, despite reading several articles by Apple and others. I dont' even know how to go about understanding what it did to my file system (after 35 years of programming on UNIX).
iCloud is an absolutely disgrace. As a software developer myself, I would feel totally ashamed to have produced a piece of software, like this. I use XCode, and iCloud kept deleting project files and reverting files back to previous versions. In the end I just copied all my XCode project folders into my home directory, which is unaffected by iCloud. I didn't dare turn iCloud off, after all the horror stories I have heard. My advice, is only use iCloud for things like Word/Text Documents or documents you don't mind losing...
I formatted my external HDD by mistake. This software -drill-3-brings-file-recovery-tools-to-mac-hard-drives recover all my lost data, but it is just free to recover 1gb data, any way, it is money worthy. I've looked for some programs, but all they seem to do nothing, but this software works perfectly.
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