New Phone Cant Set it Up
I am not an "Apple Guy". I just picked up an old iphone specifically for the lidar scanner. I have no other Apple devices.
So here is the deal.
A few months ago I purchased an iphone 12 pro off Woot. supposed to be grade A refurbished, with min 85% batt health. but the health was only 75% so i returned it.
I factory reset the phone before returning. But I did not know I needed to unlink it from the icloud account.
So now, with this new phone, I cant set it up, because it is trying to send a verification code to the other iphone that i dont have.
Also, I used a google number when i set up the first phone. I was unaware that Apple has an issue with this.
So now, I cant do the stupid 2 step verification because I dont have the other phone and google voice wont accept texts or calls from apple security.
And even when i try to log in to my account on my computer, it still requires the 2 step verification. So even on my computer, i run into the same problem.
So i cant unlink the old phone. Cant change the number associated with the account. no clue what else im supposed to do. Any ideas?
UPDATE: in case anyone else runs into this problem. The verification codes sent by Apple, end up in spam text folder on google voice.