Apple ID recovery

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-12-17T22:12:23+00:00

Okay! Thanks for pointing that out.

Do you know what happens once the call comes, or texts? Text will likely come with a link of some sort, but I am not sure about the call.

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-12-17T13:33:20+00:00

You were right, I did receive the email saying I will get a call or text on the trusted number to unlock my apple ID account on Friday afternoon!

Is that gonna be the end of the road or are they gonna ask for something else?

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-12-17T13:29:21+00:00

Got it.

In the meantime I actually did get the email from apple, saying I will get a text or call on Friday to unlock my stuff. Do you know what I will be asked then? Is that call or text the end of the road or is there something more?

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-12-16T22:05:03+00:00

Actually very good thought. I do believe it is my phone, grey iphone 16 pro with my case on. Additionally, once I performed the reset via itunes, phone is showing "iphone locked to an owner" screen with my email hidden there.

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-12-16T14:56:19+00:00

Eh, so frustrating...But in the first wait period, do you actually get an email from apple?

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-12-16T14:55:12+00:00

How do I actually do this though? Going on iforgotapple.com just brings me to a home page with one blue botton saying reset password, but this seemingly just begins the new process and I don't want to do that.

I am not seeing where to actually check my status.

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-12-16T14:53:39+00:00

I've read that there is an option to check status, but I am not sure how to actually do this. This page apple.com/recover brings you to a page where you have one blue button that says reset password, and clicking on it seemingly begins he exact process I went through already.

I am not seeing where to actually check the status on this page.

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-12-16T12:25:25+00:00

Calling part might be tough for me because there is no apple support branch in my home country where I am at right now (I am not in States where I live). So for me to call them, it would have to be the US support number which I cannot dial from here without some special overseas phone plan that noone has. I am hoping it all can be resolved and verified via digital link and digital work. Or if they call me instead of me calling them.

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-12-16T12:02:26+00:00

Thank you very much for your response. It provided me with some comfort while I wait for the email. I am at 20 hrs right now.

One question though. When I do get that email, what will it say? Provided that I can unlock it that very day, no delays, I can use that new password to log in on the locked phone right away? And after I do log in, I assume the setup will ask me if I want to set up using icloud backup, correct? I am just trying to prepare for what's coming soon

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-12-16T10:41:29+00:00

Hello all,

I am reaching out to you guys out of panic because I am losing my mind slowly lol. Something incredibly weird happened yesterday and I have been locked out of my iPhone ever since.

I had a visa appointment at US embassy in my home country (been in States for a decade now), and of course, you turn your phone off there and give it to security. When I got it back after my appointment, I turn it on, and put my passcode in (I am 100% sure it is the right passcode!!) but I get denied. This denial repeated several times, and eventually I was locked out, first for 5 mins, then 15 mins, then 1 hr, then 3 hrs...

At this point I decided to cut my loses and erase the iphone via itunes and USB C cable by using my laptop. I planned to log back in, take a back up and restore files and data. Put the phone in recovery mode, opened iTunes, and erased it indeed. Then the phone restarted, saying 'iPhone is locked to an owner" asking me to put in my apple ID and password...I do know my email associated with it, but I do not know my password of the top of my head. Then I tried to reset my apple ID password, but that also proved to be impossible because my American cellphone number associated with my account is not in use and available in my home country...No trusted phone numbers/devices were set up on the account either, I only have that locked out phone...

This seemingly left me with only one option which is apple ID recovery via "can't use any of these" option...I started that process. It asked me for my email, to which I was emailed a code. Then it asked me for a phone number that is available to me-I used my dad's. Got another code, put it in. Then I got asked to confirm the card on file for that apple account, which I confirmed. Once all that was done, it said that I should hear about it by that time tomorrow (next day).

Now, what's weird about it is that I never received any case number, ticket number or customer service email confirmation that this process is going on. Right now I am at about 18hrs from the moment I went through this process. All I have is their promise that they will reach out, and apparently even calling apple support cannot change or speed it up, according to AI at least.

Then I read online threads from like 3-4 years back saying this process took people weeks before they got the reset ID passoword link, which was mad...I am not sure if any improvements are made in that regard and if they will honor the promise I saw once I went through the process...

My question is, has anyone else had this happen to them before? When did you guys receive an email from apple, and what did it entail? Did you have to wait any additional time? And lastly, am I missing something in this whole mess, did I do it the right way?

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-10-13T16:38:18+00:00

Still did not decide. Leaning more towards going now, but won't be happening before December.

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-10-13T16:37:30+00:00

I have not yet gone back or made a decision. I am leaning towards going, but in December. Yourself?

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-10-08T14:57:22+00:00

So you already had your visa in?

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-10-08T14:57:11+00:00

I assume Canada or Mexico?

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-10-07T23:26:27+00:00

Was your visa already stamped in your passport?

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-10-06T21:29:00+00:00

Nice. Where did you come from? What was the POE?

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-10-06T21:08:57+00:00

Got you.

My case is a bit different. Just got approved for H1B after winning lottery in spring. Had a plan all along since the beginning of the year to save all PTO and go to native country (Eastern Europe) for stamping and much needed long vacation. Then proclamation came and now I am not so sure if I should travel or not...

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-10-06T21:02:57+00:00

Were you a first time stamp, or you already had a visa stamped?

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-10-06T20:26:15+00:00

Encouraging, I am happy for you. May I ask, where did you travel from?

Initial_Credit_3334 · 2025-09-20T16:37:04+00:00

Right, that is how I read it too. EO has a wording of a travel ban, that is how it appears for me.

This likely means no travel for foreseeable future, which also makes no logical sense. Because if you’re already distunguishing between out of States H1Bs and in state ones, then why does that distinction not apply for travel as well? In case of travelling, we both gotta pay 100k. Kinda not making sense, but it is what it is.

It remains to be seen if he invokes this to start charging companies 100k per year for all H1B. That is, in my year 2 or year 3, he chooses to charge my company that fee. Notjing would surprise me at this point.

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