Stuck on Activation Lock after an iOS update? Learn why it happens and follow simple, safe steps to unlock your iPhone or ...

Activation Lock is an anti-theft system for Apple devices meant to prevent unauthorized usage or erasure. It's available on ...

A weird glitch is apparently triggering an Activation Lock on newly-unboxed iPhone 7 devices, with buyers finding their new smartphone already linked to another person's Apple ID email address.

Apple has quietly removed a feature on iCloud that helped buyers remotely check the Activation Lock status of a used iPhone before buying it. Until recently, buyers could go to iCloud.com and type in ...

Apple added Activation Lock several years ago to its iPhones as a theft deterrent, partly at the request of users and partly because law enforcement insisted it would reduce the incentive for grab-and ...

Apple has launched its "Activation Lock" which would be available for use to everyone who has retrieved their Apple device after being stolen or locked from the iCloud website, provided that they ...