In order to gift phone to youngster, how do I make sure I disconnect iCloud account?

[Eight Ball]

When I see iPhone for sale on swappa, one of the questions that comes up over and over again is people asking if the phone is iCloud cleared. I might not understand what they are asking, but I want to make sure that my apple account is no longer on my phone and that my nephew can use his apple account when I give the phone to him.

I'm sure there are probably lots of guides, but is doing a factory reset enough, and then him designating the device as "new" on his account. Don't I have to de-register my device somewhere in my apple account.

Thanks. I'm posting before this thread disappears. Sadly, after tomorrow I think iMore will get rid of the 5c as a standalone thread and put it with the other older iPhones.

 

[zerog46]

Turn off find my iPhone, sign out of iCloud and wipe the device. All good to go for the next user.


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[Ledsteplin]

And toggle off iMessage.

 

[Eight Ball]

When I do all that above and then give the phone, will he be able to get the IMEI number off the phone without a sim card or will he be stuck at welcome screen? I don't have the box and he'll have to get imei off a phone to order sim.