How to log out of iCloud without the password?

An old friend of mine gave me their old iPhone [it's an 8.3] but didn't log out of their iCloud. It's an old email address they haven't used in years and they've tried every old password they can think of and they're not with Apple anymore. What to do?

I don't know about Apple products (thank goodness), however, if you go to iCloud and it accesses the friend's cloud storage, there should be the option to log out at that point. If you are in his cloud storage, then you should not need the password. If you do not go to his cloud storage when you go to iCloud, you are obviously already logged out.

If you have been given an old phone, then your friend should have given it a factory reset first. If not, then you should do this. After this, his old email address should be meaningless as far as the phone is concerned.

If you can't factory reset the phone (and I don't know what the iPhone offers), then this is a good reason for not going with an Apple product.

  • Is tbere any major différence between thé iPhone 6 and the 6s? Whooppeee is Xmas again and my daughter wants new 2nd hand) iPhone… 2 years ago almost bought her 5 before i réaliséd that it was 5s she wanted ( cos thé 5 sucks?) And I don't want to screw up this year…
  • If you change your Tumblr password will it log you out from other devices? So I was using Tumblr on the family computer on Google Chrome and Chrome stores all of your history. I didn't clear the history before getting off the computer, and my brother got on. My brother is VERY nosy and the history is easily accessible - I left Tumblr logged in and Chrome leaves you logged in until you clear history or log out. I changed my Tumblr password from my iPhone just now and then logged off of the app. Will this also log me out on the computer?
  • If I change my password will I log out automatically? My friend has the Facebook app and has logged herself and me on there before. (I said this was okay). The app can automatically log me in on her iphone 5 without the "password" business. If I changed my password, would it log me out of her Facebook app automatically and therefore she can't log in my account anymore?
  • How to reset your iPhone if you have icloud enabled and forgotten the password to your icloud? So I want to reset my iPhone but I have iCloud enabled in which I have forgotten the password for the iCloud. I had 2 options, to reset my password by email which I can't because I can't log into my current iCloud email so how do I even receive an email? The other option was to answer my security question which I have also forgotten.