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The film seems to imply that there is a way to circumvent iCloud account protection on iOS. Is this really the case? I know there are services which promise that, but as long the phone is on the latest firmware I cannot imagine how anyone could reset the iCloud lock. So these services are either hoaxes or work only for certain phones (with old, vulnerable OS versions). Or maybe I'm missing something?

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How does the film imply that? The phone that was setup to be stolen was an HTC Android phone, not an iphone...

It says so from 2:14 to 2:23.

I bought an iPad three years ago. I played with it for a couple of months before packing it in storage for a renovation. Forgot about it and found it again last week.

Apple has since deleted the account that my iPad synced with. I am completely unable to use the iPad after upgrading it to the latest iOS, as my account simply doesn't exist. I even tried registering an account with the same username/password combo. It registered, but the iPad won't have it.

If there is a way to circumvent iCloud protection, I'd love to know.

Call support?

Don't know how they do it, but i know you can go to one of those small phone stores, that are located everywhere in European countries. They have tricks in their sleeves.

I gave my only iPhone 5 to my father, i had forgotten to disconnect it from my account and it was looked to a carrier. They "fixed" it in an hour.

It's possible they have access to internal apple tools.

I know there are paid tools for phone cellular network unlocking which do work, and I assume those have some kind of internal access. Don't have experience with icloud though.

It's usually just a specialized phishing service.

Generally, no.

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