The iCloud Activation Lock is a security feature designed by Apple to prevent unauthorized access to your iPhone if it's lost ...

Activation Lock is an anti-theft system for Apple devices meant to prevent unauthorized usage or erasure. It's available on most Apple products, such as iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches.

Apple has further consolidated resources on how to turn off Activation Lock on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on a new portal page linking to all support avenues that users can access.

and then contact Apple for tech support to see if they can help. Just because an iPhone is showing an Activation Lock message ...

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 ...