When selling a Mac make sure you get your licenses back (1/3)

LICENSES AND AUTHORIZATIONS

With the economic problems that are occurring in Spain, businesses that sell second-hand products are beginning to proliferate, as well as the web pages that allow us to sell the products that we no longer need with which we can recover some money, either because We need it, or because we want to invest it in a new product.

Apple renews its products relatively quickly if we start from the idea that a person who has a Mac over time usually has an iPad and an iPhone, so in these cases certain users pawn their current equipment to be able to renew them without spending much money.

When we want to take away, sell or give away our Mac, we should never give it to another person as is. First of all, we remind you that certain applications of Adobe and Microsoft They make use of licenses that we must introduce on the computer where that application is going to be used. In the event that you are going to change Mac, you must make a "disconnection" of the application so that that serial number is free again to be able to use it on a different computer.

On the other hand we have the iTunes, which needs an "authorization" so that the team can manage our iOS devices without problems. As we all know, people who have an Apple ID have 5 authorizations to be able to authorize 5 different computers. We return to the same thing, since when we are going to change Mac, what we must also do is remove that authorization from the computer to be able to have our 5 authorizations again. In the event that we don't, there is no way to regain that authorization. Apple has anticipated these situations and when the user tries to authorize a sixth computer, he disavows the existing 5 and begins the process again.

Last and most current, we talk about iCloud, which as we all know is responsible for keeping all our devices synchronized in terms of photos, calendars, documents, books and applications, among others. The question is not to delete the data from those places manually while we have the iCloud account activated since in the future it will be synchronized again and your data will appear again. What we must do is disconnect the iCloud account and then erase all traces of data.

In case you want to delete this data faster, you can do a system restore and erase everything from the hard drive. Keep in mind that the iTunes account and third-party applications must do it anyway.

More information - Apple employees also have access to the beta of the new iWork for iCloud


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