Enjoy your paper weight.

Edit: this is starting to sound like a stolen iPhone

Your coworker can unlock it through apple. No other option.

Have her call Apple support they will ask of her proof of purchase and unlock her iCloud then. Until she can show Apple she is the oo and has proof of purchase you have an unusable phone

there's no hard reset option without being able to login to it?

She can try to reset her iCloud password but other then that without the receipt of purchase Apple won’t help her .

Paperweight till they recover their password.

Nope

fudge

That would defeat the purpose of iCloud lock

I mean I get it...I just thought there might be a workaround for this kind of thing cause I imagine it happens more often than you'd think.

You say you get it and then promptly demonstrate that you don’t

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I assure you it's not. she doesn't want the phone anymore because her account was compromised and she switched to a different provider and to an android she had this phone lying around and told me I could just have it.