If you got a locked iPad like this from your friend or purchased it on eBay,
you might figure that you can easily unlock it by doing a factory reset.
But nowadays the passcode often comes with an Apple ID that has Find my iPhone enabled,
then you’ll see this when setting it up.
It’s asking for the information your friend might forgot or the seller won’t deliver.
Fortunately, there are several ways to bypass this without using any credentials.
In this video I’ll show a simple and effective one.
Let’s get started.
First let’s remove the passcode by doing a restore with iTunes.
So once open it, attach your iPad to the computer.
Then put it into recovery mode.
For an iPad with Home button,
is press and hold both the power and Home button simultaneously
till you see the connect to computer icon.
Then iTunes should detect it and suggest an update or restore.
Go ahead and proceed with the restore.
Then hit Restore and update to confirm,
and agree to the terms and conditions.
It’ll be downloading the firmware first,
then your iPad will go through the restore process.
By the way, if iTunes is giving you errors, 4uKey will be a nice alternative,
which could help you achieve the same goal in a more intuitive fashion.
So once completed, iPad will show you the hello screen,
while iTunes comes up to the Activation Lock.
Let’s go ahead and set it up.
Once we connected to a network, we’ll see the same activation lock on the iPad.
Of course the unlock with passcode option is useless at this point.
So let’s start to bypass this.
The tool we are using here is 4MeKey,
I’ll leave the link in the description below in case you want to download.
So once open it, plug your iPad into the computer.
Then click on start and agree to the disclaimer.
4MeKey will download the jailbreak tool first.
Now insert an empty USB thumb drive into the computer,
once detected, hit start to create the jailbreak drive.
Once done, you’ll see a guide showing you step by step
how to complete the jailbreak on Windows.
So let’s now restart the computer,
When it boots up, press F12 key to enter the boot option,
then boot your computer from the UEFI hard drive.
Then we’ll see the checkrein jailbreak wizard,
make sure your iPad is still connected at this point,
then you should see the device information right here.
It says the iOS is not supported at this point.
No worries, we should head to the Option first,
check off allow untested iOS, then go ahead and quit back.
Now it says iPad is untested, that's fine, let's proceed.
The device will be put into recovery mode first, press next to confirm.
Once in, press start,
then quickly follow the instructions to put your iPad into DFU mode before the countdown is over.
For an iPad with Home button,
is press and hold both the power and Home button for 4 seconds,
then release the power button while continue holding the Home button for another 10 seconds,
Once in DFU mode, you’ll see the jailbreak code running on your device.
Well done, now let’s reboot the computer, and open 4MeKey to start over.
This time you’ll get straight to the device information screen,
below it is a start remove button.
Go ahead and click on it, 4MeKey will do the trick for you in a minute.
Just like this.
Now let’s get back to the iPad and check it out.
When we see the data and privacy option,
we know the Find my iPad service has been removed.
Let's move on,
Make sure not to create passcode, Touch ID and Face ID.
And skip signing in your own Apple iD when you got here,
then you can proceed to the home screen.
Then in Settings, we should notice the Apple account has been signed out,
which means Find my iPad is disabled too.
That's it!
Thanks for watching.
See you in the next video.