Son’s iPad smashed, won’t turn on. I removed it from FindMy devices before I erased it so still appears as a device in Screen Time, causing glitches. How do I remotely remove AppleID from device without using the device itself and with the device no longer listed in FindMy Devices? Thanks
After the iPad has been removed from your AppleID account, it is impossible to remotely manage or erase the iPad.
While you will be unable to erase the iPad, this is perhaps not as serious as might initially appear. Unless the iPad can be restarted to a running state - and the Passcode known only to you is successfully entered - neither you nor anyone else will be able to recover any data from the iPad.
iPadOS uses an encrypted filesystem. Successful entry of the iPad Passcode unlocks the Secure Enclave (this being the iPad's security chip) within which the only copy of the encryption keys - that are required to access and decrypt your data - are stored. In the unlikely event that the iPad is ever recovered to a running state, there are a limited number of attempts to enter the correct Passcode before the iPad will become disabled.
As such, you have no reason to be concerned that any data stored on the iPad can be recovered.
Thank you for your response. However, the problem is actually that the Device still appears as a device in Screen Time and therefore because the device won’t update, there is constantly an exclamation / error notice next to my son’s Screen Time setting and means he can turn his phone off and on again to remove all the screen time settings! Perhaps you can advise how to remove the device from his Screen Time list of devices? Thanks
Can I restore the old iPad onto a new iPad (from a back-up) temporarily and then erase it, thus removing the AppleID?
Deleting AppleID from broken device which has been removed from FindMy
