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How to bypass activation lock on a 10-year-old stolen iPhone 5s?

Hey i Lost my iPhone 5s it was stolen from me and it activated before I activate And I found it After 10 years and it has activation Lock How do i Unlock it and i don’t know the email and Pass pls Help me i Love classic phoness


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Rayandudu11w wrote:
Hey i Lost my iPhone 5s it was stolen from me and it activated before I activate And I found it After 10 years and it has activation Lock How do i Unlock it and i don’t know the email and Pass pls Help me i Love classic phoness
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Rayandudu11w wrote:
Hey i Lost my iPhone 5s it was stolen from me and it activated before I activate And I found it After 10 years and it has activation Lock How do i Unlock it and i don’t know the email and Pass pls Help me i Love classic phoness


You're awfully lucky to get a stolen phone back after 10 years. Most stolen phones are never recovered at all – much less after such a long time.


Without the credentials the phone is requesting, you don't unlock it. Even with otherwise-satisfactory proof of original purchase, Apple will not remove Activation Lock from a phone that is in Lost Mode.


Note that while the iPhone 5s still meets the minimum requirements for accessing iCloud and the App Store, it doesn't support Voice over LTE (VoLTE) – only data over LTE. Many carriers have shut down their 2G and 3G cellular networks, which would make even an unlocked iPhone 5s useless as a cell phone.

Sorry, you don't without that information.