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Repair guides, support, and troubleshooting information for the 2022 13-inch MacBook Air, featuring Apple's M2 SoC. Released on July 15th, 2022 and identified by model number A2681.

Activation lock display swap

Hello everyone, I need help. My macbook is perfectly working except of screen demolished and i found a macbook donor the same color the same model serial number but with activation lock with a lost mode and my plan is to replace my logic board with touch id to the donor case and even leave donor batery because its better than mine.

The only thing I need to know will Apple Repair Assistant say "Unfinished repair" and complain about locked screen chip or something else. I saw people say its gonna run fine its still just for iPhone and theres new policy in tahoe 26 about it. Please someone who had expirience with, help.

P.S.: Where I live, there is a common scam where Apple devices are remotely locked through iCloud. The seller even showed me the original purchase payment from his banking app, so he may actually be the original owner and a victim of this scam. We also don’t have Apple Authorized Service Providers here, so there is no official way to request Activation Lock removal.

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iCloud locked system is not the same as parts serialization. In as far as one proceeds the other. A system which has been iCloud locked parts are also locked from what I understand. Recovered part/s from a clean system can be reused using the Apple Repair Assistant within the newer macOS releases. The only error I have see is when a third party battery will state it's not an Apple battery.

I'm not sure if your direction will work and the TouchID button that is married to the given logic board needs to stay with it you can't mix and match them.

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Would any disconnected parts need calibration after reassembly?

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@livfe - Here's a good write up How Parts Pairing Kills Independent Repair it's not the disconnection it's the swapping of parts or new ones from Apple.

And here's more on the Repair Assistant function within macOS Use Repair Assistant to finish a Mac repair which dives into it.

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@danj No, My Q was, IF 2 already paired parts were disconnected from each other would they require calibration after?

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@livfe - No amnesia here! Serialization is a readout of a static code held within the part which does not change the code of each part are held within the given systems firmware where is must match. Removing a part and then reinstalled that given part back in won't be an issue as long as the same collection is present in that given system. But that parts code is also held within Apple as part of its iCloud lock for that given system.

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