Dealing with giant bueruecracy can be the most frustrating experience. bureaucracy’s are ultimately made of people though and rules can be stretched, broken, or changed. I hope some real human working at Apple sees this, has some sort of power to change things, and is willing to step up to bat for OP’s daughter.
In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever
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#12Destroyed? The account does not work anymore, but the device is doing exactly as told. However i agree any electronic device should have the ability to factory reset. Software lock ins are terrible.
> the device is doing exactly as told.
As told by whom? It certainly wasn't told to lock up by it's rightful owners.
It's not even clear if Apple actually intended this, or if it was some weird side effect.
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#13I think this is the same person who post this, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7138743 ^ For more info.
Probably not: the post is about an iPod whereas the article is about an iPad Mini.
This issue is actually quite old and I am very surprised (and sad) that is has re-surfaced.
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#14Dealing with giant bueruecracy can be the most frustrating experience. bureaucracy’s are ultimately made of people though and rules can be stretched, broken, or changed. I hope some real human working at Apple sees this, has some sort of power to change things, and is willing to step up to bat for OP’s daughter.
There could be thousands of other people in this situation, though. Overriding the policy for one well-known blogger won't help those people.
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#15looks like it is stuck in 1970 or so, according the number of minutes in the image Edit: 1972 to be exact
I wonder if you created a network with an SSID and password that matched the original if it would pick it up and update the date? This is what I did with my TV when I lost the remote, so I could add a phone as a remote.
That’s pretty clever. I actually really enjoy hacks like these that you have to use to get other people’s technology to do what you want in a way the original creator never intended.
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#16Destroyed? The account does not work anymore, but the device is doing exactly as told. However i agree any electronic device should have the ability to factory reset. Software lock ins are terrible.
Functionality like this is pretty good to deter theft. If thieves can't easily re-enable bricked devices, black market price is much lower, thus there's less incentive to mug people carrying those devices.
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#17I think this is the same person who post this, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7138743 ^ For more info.
Probably not: the post is about an iPod whereas the article is about an iPad Mini. This issue is actually quite old and I am very surprised (and sad) that is has re-surfaced.
I got your point, I just google search it to see if I found any help and see this post so wrote it here as it is similar.
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#18I've actually been having problems recently with my account randomly being locked. I suspect it's bots trying to brute force, but its silly apple would lock my account instead of blocking the requests, especially since I have 2fa. Really annoying resetting my password only to have it happen an hour later. Tech support also has no idea why its happening.
Thing that I just noticed a few hours ago, their password change form has a max of 32 characters and my last apple pass was 64. Wonder if they made a change that broke something?
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#19Not sure if its just me but there is a database connection error "Error establishing a database connection" while opening the site.
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#20This is one of the reasons why you should just not buy Apple-branded stuff: such things are designed to be remotely-lockable.
With an Android-based device this couldn't happen. Provided that you have a backup of your data, you could just reflash the device, restore your backup and start using the device again.
Just don't buy Apple stuff. Between people having assistance denied (example: Linus Sebastian 5 k$ Mac Pro), people losing all of their music (there was one guy whose bootleg records was remotely wiped on all his devices and replaced with "originals" by Apple), and people like OP having their device turned in a shiny brick...
This is really getting ridiculous.