Certainly not the best news that Apple hoped for on iPhone X launch day: a bug in iOS 11 allows anyone to bypass the iCloud activation lock using a wrong passcode entered during the initial set-up screen.
As weird as this might sound, it is possible to quickly remove the activation lock completely on an iOS 11 device, and a video posted by YouTuber EverythingApplePro shows this working on both the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 8.
Basically, bypassing the iCloud activation lock requires reaching the unlocking with passcode screen where users only have to type whatever passcode they want for several times in a row to just have the device activated in the background.
Bug confirmed in iOS 11.1
In some cases, it involves waiting for an hour or so for the activation session to expire, which then brings back the passcode prompt, making it possible to again bypass the activation lock easily. Once the iPhone is configured, no iCloud account is configur… (read more)
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