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Thanks for the comments. &nbsp;They're all iOS 7 so I ended up going back to each user to have him put in his password so I could wipe and remove the iCloud account, but your answers were clear and complete.
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Thanks for the comments.  They're all iOS 7 so I ended up going back to each user to have him put in his password so I could wipe and remove the iCloud account, but your answers were clear and complete.

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I was handed about a dozen older iPhones 4S's that are to be wiped so they can be recycled with Verizon. &nbsp;Some of these have passcodes that I don't know, and the ones that don't have passcodes are asking for the Apple ID password, which I also don't have. &nbsp;Is there some button sequence to erase these like Androids have?
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I was handed about a dozen older iPhones 4S's that are to be wiped so they can be recycled with Verizon.  Some of these have passcodes that I don't know, and the ones that don't have passcodes are asking for the Apple ID password, which I also don't have.  Is there some button sequence to erase these like Androids have?

Wipe an iphone without passwords or itunes

The iPhone is a smartphone made by Apple Inc. It and the iPad, along with several other mobile devices from Apple, run on the iOS operating system, which has its own topic, as does the iPad for device-specific questions. Native iOS applications are written in Objective-C or in Swift using the Cocoa Touch frameworks or HTML5 compiled with the help of a package manager such as Adobe PhoneGap; a common IDE is Xcode.

iPhone

A smartphone or smart phone is a mobile phone with an advanced mobile operating system that combines features of a personal computer operating system with other features useful for mobile or handheld use. They typically combine the features of a cell phone with those of other popular mobile devices, such as personal digital assistant (PDA), media player and GPS navigation unit. Most smartphones can access the Internet, have a touchscreen user interface, can run third-party apps, music players and are camera phones. Most Smartphones produced from 2012 onwards also have high-speed mobile broadband 4G LTE internet, motion sensors, and mobile payment mechanisms.