Trying to do the right thing and return a lost ipad to it's owner

[wyoung]

this ipad was found at my fathers work the owner has not locked it down with icloud is there anyway i can get into the home screen or if worse comes to worse factory reset if to stop it being a waste of a perfectly good ipad

 

[Jupiter7]

this ipad was found at my fathers work the owner has not locked it down with icloud is there anyway i can get into the home screen or if worse comes to worse factory reset if to stop it being a waste of a perfectly good ipad

Your father should hand the iPad to whoever deals with lost property at his place of work,

 

[wyoung]

Your father should hand the iPad to whoever deals with lost property at his place of work,

He is the one who does that and no one has collected it for 7 months

 

[Jupiter7]

If it is not locked down you should see the owner’s ID in Settings at the top.

 

[Jupiter7]

If it is not locked down you should see the owner’s ID in Settings at the top.

Further,from your photo, it would appear the iPad IS locked down, in which case there is nothing you can do.

 

[J. A.]

From your image, it looks like the wrong passcode has been entered too often. That’s why the device is disabled.

That doesn’t mean the iPad is not locked to an iCloud ID. You’d notice that as soon as you’d try to erase the device.

As Jupiter7 said before: This iPad should be handed to the Lost Property department, or to the police. Everything else would be theft.