MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock

Re:MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Ac... by p_l on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:55AM (#34516026)

I have physical proof on my hands. It's possible that they fixed it in later version of the OS, but factory reset is what the reseller did with previous owner, and it did not wipe FMM registration, leaving the laptop half-stuck in terms of ownership - I only figured it out trying to register FMM to myself.

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Re:MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Ac... by coder543 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:27AM (#34518602)

I assume things were harder in older versions of macOS, but you can read step 2 yourself: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065

Any T2 Mac or newer requires only that button to be pressed, and then click through the wizard to complete the process.

You can also read this document: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208987

"Other ways to disable Activation Lock"

"Activation Lock is disabled when you use the Erase All Content and Settings feature."

which confirms the same thing. The experience that people have is very simple these days.

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Re:MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Ac... by p_l on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @11:36AM (#34520433)

Yeah, this was fixed, supposedly, on Monterey.

Which still leaves considerable amount of laptops with broken FMM registrations in T2. Especially since it was upgrading to Catalina, iirc, that started problems.

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