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The data in his iPhone was not impacted.

His Apple cloud account was locked until the account representative unlocked it.

The physical device was not locked, bricked, or wiped. The situation was bad, but let’s stick to the facts



His iPhone could not sync, update, install new software, or send messages, nor could he sign out and use a new apple ID with it to restore that functionality. For a phone, this is effectively bricked.

Paris uses the term "bricked" in the original post: https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/




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