My mother has passed away and I cannot remove the activation lock from her Apple Watch so that I can let my son use it. What can I do? She did not set up a legacy account.

I really have much else that I can say. It is a series 3 Apple Watch. Problem is my youngest sister already logged her own Apple ID into my mothers iPhone 13 logging my mother out. Nobody knows her password. My father never bothered her phone so he does not know either. They stayed away from one another’s phones to give each other that privacy since there was no other privacy in their relationship. I reset the watch thinking that with my mother logged out of the paired phone it would be ok. It is not. My youngest son is 8 and he is the closest to her of all her grandchildren. He wants her watch to use with his phone that she bought for him. Is this watch now trash or for parts only? Or is there something that I can do to fix the damage that has been done to our situation?

Posted on Aug 20, 2023 11:33 AM

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Posted on Aug 20, 2023 11:41 AM

You can try to reset the Apple ID password here.

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Aug 20, 2023 11:57 AM in response to Zedairder

This worked!!! Thank you so much. I just tapped it and handed my phone off to my dad since I was at his house already. He took care of it with the link you posted. Thank you man. My little boy is so friggin’ excited now. You’re a blessing. And I just posted that about three minutes before I went to my email and you had already given the solution. Great job, good knowledge. I was stuck. God bless you. Just know that you improved at least the rest of this month for an 8 year old autistic boy with ADHD. You truly should feel good about yourself for that one man.

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My mother has passed away and I cannot remove the activation lock from her Apple Watch so that I can let my son use it. What can I do? She did not set up a legacy account.

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