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When I entered my Apple ID, it took me to another page with a warning saying: “This Apple ID has been locked,” with a button below to unlock the account.
If Apple thinks your account was hacked it will suspend it - even if it was you who got the password wrong. Here's how to unlock your Apple ID if you can't sign in.
Credit: 9to5MacWhen people woke up and picked up their iPhones on Tuesday (Nov. 13), some of them discovered their handsets displaying a message saying their Apple ID had been locked, 9to5Mac is ...
Widespread Reports of Apple ID Accounts Being Inexplicably Locked Michael Tsai, developer of SpamSieve and EagleFiler, writes: I had another instance of my Apple ID mysteriously being locked. First, ...
Some iPhone thieves are exploiting a security setting, called the recovery key, that makes it nearly impossible for owners to access their photos, messages, data and more.
Apple appears to have locked a select group of users out of their Apple ID accounts over the past 20 hours or so, with no clear indication yet as to why the incident has occurred.
A number of iPhone users have discovered their Apple ID has been locked on all of their Apple devices, preventing them from accessing stored data and related services, with the lockdowns occurring ...
On rarer occasions, however, the Activation Lock screen linked to a wrong Apple ID email address reappears more than once. In these cases, some users report that Apple fully replaced their iPhones.
There has been a lot of buzz in the Apple world lately about designer Dustin Curtis and his locked Apple ID. It’s a long and winding tale, but one that’s disturbing for those of us who are heavily ...