{"id":611,"date":"2016-09-20T23:04:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T06:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontlookhere.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2016-09-20T23:06:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T06:06:34","slug":"unlocking-my-iphone-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/unlocking-my-iphone-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking My iPhone 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my iPhone 6 for about two years and wanted to unlock it. I followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.att.com\/deviceunlock\/?#\/\" target=\"_blank\">device unlock request procedure<\/a> from AT&amp;T and all went well. I received the email confirmation with instructions to backup my phone, erase all content and settings and then restore the phone from the backup. After making a backup via iTunes, I disconnected the phone and went to the settings to deactivate &#8220;find my phone&#8221; and then erase the phone. It basically just hung with an apple logo and progress bar that did not progress for 10-15 minutes. I decided to reboot and try another method. This is what worked for me.<\/p>\n<p>Before you begin, be sure you know your iCloud password and phone passcode.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Connect to iTunes<\/li>\n<li>Create a backup (click the button to create backup)<\/li>\n<li>Keep iPhone connected &#8211; do NOT disconnect the iPhone from the computer<\/li>\n<li>After backup is complete, open settings on the iPhone and first deactivate &#8220;find my phone&#8221; and then sign out of iCloud<\/li>\n<li>Navigate back to main settings screen and scroll down to select the option to erase iPhone<\/li>\n<li>The erase process took only a few seconds and then iTunes updated to indicate the iPhone had been successfully unlocked.<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;continue&#8221; and select the option to restore from backup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If all goes well, you should be back up and running in less then 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/iPhoneUnlocked.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/iPhoneUnlocked-300x99.png\" alt=\"iphoneunlocked\" width=\"300\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/iPhoneUnlocked-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/iPhoneUnlocked-416x137.png 416w, https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/iPhoneUnlocked-768x253.png 768w, https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/iPhoneUnlocked-500x165.png 500w, https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/iPhoneUnlocked.png 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my iPhone 6 for about two years and wanted to unlock it. I followed the device unlock request procedure from AT&amp;T and all went well. I received the email confirmation with instructions to backup my phone, erase all content and settings and then restore the phone from the backup. After making a backup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piOOA-9R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontlookhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}