I'm going to be selling my iMac and know to remove Apple ID, iCloud
account, Find Me, wipe and reinstall MAC OS.

When it was under warranty, I needed to take it to the local Apple store
for a repair.

Is that repair record tied to my Apple ID-- and if the new owner took it
to Apple for another repair, would there be an ownership record problem?

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On Apr 29, 2024 at 5:03:27 PM PDT, "Colour Sergeant Bourne" <bourne@rorke.za>
wrote:

> I'm going to be selling my iMac and know to remove Apple ID, iCloud
> account, Find Me, wipe and reinstall MAC OS.
>
> When it was under warranty, I needed to take it to the local Apple store
> for a repair.
>
> Is that repair record tied to my Apple ID-- and if the new owner took it
> to Apple for another repair, would there be an ownership record problem?

I've taken laptops to Apple for repair. They go off the serial # on the
machine, not your Apple ID.

I did use my Apple ID to setup a machine for a contract I was working. I had
FIND MY MAC turned on and a bunch of utilities installed under my Apple ID in
the Mac Store. I turned that machine in after removing a bunch of apps and
files, but the Apple ID was stil set up on the machine. I figured that their
laptop provider would wipe and reprovision the machine to a new hire.

It took a month, but I started getting emails about a stolen laptop setup with
my ID. I emailed the company and was told that they were finally provisioning
that laptop to someone new. They were going to wipe it that day. Apparently it
was on a public network so it sent out emails. I was about to send a "KILL AND
WIPE" command to the machine when it stopped responding, so I guess they wiped
it. No more emails.

If you boot the system with a COMMAND-SHIFT-R, it will reload MacOS to the
latest version that machine will support via a network install. That's the
state I would hand over the machine to whomever is going to get it.
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On 2024-04-30 04:22:56 +0000, Percival John Hackworth said:

> On Apr 29, 2024 at 5:03:27 PM PDT, "Colour Sergeant Bourne" <bourne@rorke.za>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm going to be selling my iMac and know to remove Apple ID, iCloud
>> account, Find Me, wipe and reinstall MAC OS.
>>
>> When it was under warranty, I needed to take it to the local Apple store
>> for a repair.
>>
>> Is that repair record tied to my Apple ID-- and if the new owner took it
>> to Apple for another repair, would there be an ownership record problem?
>
> I've taken laptops to Apple for repair. They go off the serial # on the
> machine, not your Apple ID.
>
> I did use my Apple ID to setup a machine for a contract I was working. I had
> FIND MY MAC turned on and a bunch of utilities installed under my Apple ID in
> the Mac Store. I turned that machine in after removing a bunch of apps and
> files, but the Apple ID was stil set up on the machine. I figured that their
> laptop provider would wipe and reprovision the machine to a new hire.
>
> It took a month, but I started getting emails about a stolen laptop setup with
> my ID. I emailed the company and was told that they were finally provisioning
> that laptop to someone new. They were going to wipe it that day. Apparently it
> was on a public network so it sent out emails. I was about to send a "KILL AND
> WIPE" command to the machine when it stopped responding, so I guess they wiped
> it. No more emails.
>
> If you boot the system with a COMMAND-SHIFT-R, it will reload MacOS to the
> latest version that machine will support via a network install. That's the
> state I would hand over the machine to whomever is going to get it.

In the good ol' days, you could easily replace the hard drive before
selling an old computer, then there was no chance of any personal
information being on it nor resurrected.

These days it's pretty much impossible on most (if not all) current Mac
models, let alone iPads and iPhones. :-(

I took an old iMac to the recycling centre yesterday, and they just
dumped it in a bin outside the door, where anyone could pick it up
during the night. Luckily it was an old enough model that I had been
able to remove the hard drive first.

On 30.04.24 02:03, Colour Sergeant Bourne wrote:
> I'm going to be selling my iMac and know to remove Apple ID, iCloud
> account, Find Me, wipe and reinstall MAC OS.
>
> When it was under warranty, I needed to take it to the local Apple store
> for a repair.
>
> Is that repair record tied to my Apple ID-- and if the new owner took it
> to Apple for another repair, would there be an ownership record problem?

Remove your iMac from your iCloud/Apple-Account.
After that reinstall macOS.
Then sell it.

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"Mille viae ducunt hominem per saecula Romam." (Alanus ab Insulis 1120-1202)

On 2024-04-29 20:03, Colour Sergeant Bourne wrote:
> I'm going to be selling my iMac and know to remove Apple ID, iCloud
> account, Find Me, wipe and reinstall MAC OS.
>
> When it was under warranty, I needed to take it to the local Apple store
> for a repair.
>
> Is that repair record tied to my Apple ID-- and if the new owner took it
> to Apple for another repair, would there be an ownership record problem?

I would think not. Apple should have a record tied to the serial number
of the unit related to its repairs - but that should be independent of
the owner.

The only item that comes to mind is if the remaining warranty is
transferable - esp. if you purchased extended warranty.

IAC - give the new owner a receipt of some kind to prove his ownership
should it come to that.

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“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first;
nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
- Charles de Gaulle.

On 2024-05-01 07:56, Alan Browne wrote:

> The only item that comes to mind is if the remaining warranty is
> transferable - esp. if you purchased extended warranty.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/111801

--
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first;
nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
- Charles de Gaulle.

On 2024-04-30 02:28, Your Name wrote:

> In the good ol' days, you could easily replace the hard drive before
> selling an old computer, then there was no chance of any personal
> information being on it nor resurrected.
>
> These days it's pretty much impossible on most (if not all) current Mac
> models, let alone iPads and iPhones.  :-(
>
>
> I took an old iMac to the recycling centre yesterday, and they just
> dumped it in a bin outside the door, where anyone could pick it up
> during the night. Luckily it was an old enough model that I had been
> able to remove the hard drive first.

If you were using Filevault and decommissioned the Mac correctly, there
is no way the data can be recovered.

--
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first;
nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
- Charles de Gaulle.