The latest iOS 17.5 beta introduces a new feature that lets you send off your iPhone for repair without needing to disable Find My and Activation Lock. According to MacRumors, iOS 17.5 features a ...

making it simpler for users to repair their iPhones with genuine used parts. Alongside these changes, the company has also introduced a new feature: Activation Lock for iPhone parts. This feature ...

Virtually every component in an iPhone and iPad has a unique ID that ... The bad news here is that parts whose IDs show up as being locked (Activation Lock) are ineligible, which is something ...

Activation Lock is automatically disabled. That makes sense -- the process disables Find My at the same time. On an iPhone or iPad, you can start a local wipe by going to Settings > General ...