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Won’t remove activation lock

A friend told me her Apple Watch, but her ID is still on it. I’ve been contacting her to remove the device from her phone so that I can you know use the watch because now it’s my item but she’s being weird about it and I can use it so how can I go about this? What can I do because I really want to watch but I can use it unless the activation lock is unlocked

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Ashmariexx20_ wrote:
A friend told me her Apple Watch, but her ID is still on it. I’ve been contacting her to remove the device from her phone so that I can you know use the watch because now it’s my item but she’s being weird about it and I can use it so how can I go about this? What can I do because I really want to watch but I can use it unless the activation lock is unlocked

There is nothing you can do, except recycle the watch is useless to you, since your "friend" still has her info on it and won't give you the info to remove the activation lock.

You’re here, asking us about this, and not pursuing this with the only person that can either relinquish this or refund this, which means you got scammed, and now own what is and will forever be a brick.