Owing to the excellent features which it has to offer and the kind of security which you can enjoy, there are a lot of users who have been opting for the ‘find my iPhone’ app. When you have this app turned on, your iPhone will be iCloud activation locked.
Until and unless you enter your iCloud credentials, you will not be able to use your device. This is an excellent feature to prevent data loss upon stealing or misplacing of your phone. However, if you are looking for ways by which you can remove iOS device from iCloud and ‘find my iPhone’, we will talk of the different ways you can do it.
Part 1: How to remove iOS device from iCloud and Find my iPhone list
When you are looking to get rid of your Apple device or even for other reasons, if you want to remove your iOS device with the help of ‘find my iPhone’, here are the steps you need to follow.
Removing your device from Find My iPhone
- • Take your Apple device and go to the settings option in your device.
- • Now scroll down the list and click on iCloud.
- • In the list, tap on ‘find my iPhone’.
- • Now, you can easily toggle the ‘find my iPhone’ option to turn it off.
- • You will have to enter your apple id and password to bring the change.
When you are looking to remove your MAC, you can follow these steps.
• Launch 'find my iPhone' and then click on ‘system preferences’.• Now, in the options, click on iCloud• In the list that follows, uncheck the option, and ‘Find my Mac’.
- • You will have to enter your admin password for the Mac to make the change.
- • Sign in to your iCloud account using your Apple id credentials
- • Click on the devices option and wait until the applications syncs the content of your device to the system.
- • Now, select the device which you wish to remove and click on the ‘delete’ option which is present beside the device name.
Part 2: How to remove iOS device from iCloud and Find my iPhone with iCloud
• Log on to icloud.com/find and enter your Apple login credentials
• You will be redirected to the web interface for ‘find my iPhone’
• You can see a list of all your Apple devices.
• You can click on ‘all devices’ and it will show you a complete list of all apple devices
• Move over to the device which you want to remove and click on it.
• Click ‘remove from account’.
• Alternately, you can also click the delete button which will be present against the device.
When you are looking to delete your Apple device from your iCloud account, simply follow these easy steps.
The device will be deleted from your iCloud server. It is advised to even turn the ‘find my iPhone’ feature off as not doing this might render the phone unusable for whoever uses it next.