Re: Ignoring requests for Apple ID

Your Name wrote on Sun, 30 Jun 2024 10:43:04 +1200 :

An iPhone that was never set up completely always asks for the iCloud
credentials first when turned on and does it again and again.

 
In my case none of those features are useful since my phone plan
does not include data. To me it's just a phone, for calls in a
pinch. It appears that I can ignore the demands for a password.
 
Thanks for reading,
 
bob prohaska

 
If it is iCloud features that keeps asking for the Apple ID and you do
not want to use them, then you're probably best to turn iCloud off to
stop it asking. Exactly how to do that may depend on the version of iOS
you're using, but try: <https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-iCloud>

The problem I've found by not constantly logging into the iCloud (but being
logged into it once and having never logged out of it), is you can install
apps, but you can't delete them and then re-install those very same apps!

Most of the ignorant Apple religious zealots are unfamiliar with all these
gotchas, simply because they're all too timid to test them out as I do.

As noted, I refused for two years on two different iPads to sign into any
of the Apple servers and what Apple does, eventually, is unilaterally brick
the device such that you can no longer log in even when you KNOW the
password. (Yes, I know the iKooks say otherwise but they never tested it.)
 <https://i.postimg.cc/FHKHm9kD/locked01.jpg> Apple requires frequent login
 <https://i.postimg.cc/WzjsyjPm/locked02.jpg> Most things still work
 <https://i.postimg.cc/MGC6yVPF/locked03.jpg> But some stop working
 <https://i.postimg.cc/jdxsQsct/locked04.jpg> Apple will brick the login

Note: I have never changed the login/password since I bought these Apple
devices so the iKooks claiming I don't know it are simply making that up.

Why does Apple brick your AppleID if you refuse to log into it every day?

I suspect Apple bricks your login because they want you to agree to any
changed terms and conditions - but I leave it up to Apple to explain why.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/9fPjQpr3/nag01.jpg> 3 iOS 16.7.3 nag items
 <https://i.postimg.cc/wxwgN0Fg/nag02.jpg> 2 iOS 16.7.3 nag items
 <https://i.postimg.cc/3NVqB4dC/nag03.jpg> 1 Update Apple ID settings

All I know is that if you refuse to log into the various Apple mainframe
servers, then you will be nagged five, ten, twenty times a day to log in.

Of course, you can easily swipe away that login, but eventually, in my
experience after about two years, Apple will brick the login - such that
you literally have to prove to Apple who you are with a government ID in
person in order for them to allow you to log back in USING THE SAME login
and password! (Ask me how I know this.)

Bear in mind that I'm well aware most Apple users are completely clueless
that they're constantly logging into the Apple mainframe servers every
moment of their lives, 24/7/365 - but to answer the OP's question, Apple
will eventually brick the login if you continue to refuse to log into it.

To answer the OP's question, the entire walled garden is nothing more than
the dumb-terminal connected to the intelligent server mainframe model.