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In this articleMicrosoft Intune can help you manage iOS/iPadOS Activation Lock, a feature of the Find My iPhone app for iOS/iPadOS 8.0 and later devices. Activation Lock is enabled automatically when a user opens the Find My iPhone app on a device. After it is enabled, the user's Apple ID and password must be entered before anyone can:
How Activation Lock affects youWhile Activation Lock helps secure iOS/iPadOS devices and improves the chances of recovering a lost or stolen device, this capability can present you, as an IT admin, with a number of challenges. For example:
To help solve these problems, Apple introduced Activation Lock disable in iOS/iPadOS 7.1. Disable Activation Lock lets you remove the Activation Lock from supervised devices without the user's Apple ID and password. Supervised devices can generate a device-specific Activation Lock bypass code, which is stored on Apple's activation server. Tip Supervised mode for iOS/iPadOS devices lets you use Apple Configurator to lock down a device and limit functionality to specific business purposes. Supervised mode is used only for corporate-owned devices. You can read more about Activation Lock on Apple's web site. How Intune helps you manage Activation LockIntune can request the Activation Lock status of supervised devices that run iOS/iPadOS 8.0 and later. For supervised devices only, Intune can retrieve the Disable Activation Lock code and directly issue it to the device. If the device has been wiped, you can directly access the device by using a blank user name and the code as the password. The business benefits of using Intune to manage Activation Lock are:
Before you startBefore you can disable Activation Lock on devices, you must enable it by following these instructions:
How to use Disable Activation LockImportant After you disable the Activation Lock on a device, if the Find My iPhone app is started, a new Activation Lock is automatically applied. Because of this, you should be in physical possession of the device before you follow this procedure. The Intune Disable Activation Lock remote device action removes the Activation Lock from an iOS/iPadOS device without requiring the user's Apple ID and password. After you disable the Activation Lock, the device turns on Activation Lock again when the Find My iPhone app starts. Disable the Activation Lock only if you have physical access to the device.
Note In order to return activationLockBypassCode property using graph, it needs to explicitly included in the request. If you send an unfiltered query to Graph API for the device object, a set of default values is returned and activationLockBypassCode will be null. Next stepsYou can examine the status of the unlock request on the details page for the device in the Manage devices workload. FeedbackSubmit and view feedback for Can you get past activation lock without Apple ID?EaseUS MobiUnlock is an iPhone unlock tool that helps you bypass Activation Lock without Apple ID. Once you got EaseUS MobiUnlock on your PC, connect your iPhone to the PC, follow the on-screen instruction, and then you can sign in with the iPhone with your current Apple ID.
How do I get past the activation lock on my iPhone?How to remove Activation Lock. Go to www.iCloud.com/find.. Sign in with your Apple ID and password.. At the top, click All Devices.. Select the device that you want to remove from iCloud.. Click Remove from Account.. Can I remove activation lock from iPhone for free?DoulCi iCloud
DoulCi iCloud is also a free iCloud activation bypass tool, it's really easy and can unlock your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch within 20 minutes. You can use it on Mac, Windows and also Linux. There is detailed tutorial on its website, you can check them easily.
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