You're right, you're supposed to have been allowed to disable Stolen Device Protection so long as you were in a familiar location and hadn't changed the default delay requirement to Always. Unfortunately, as I just found out, the device frequently forgets or misidentifies locations important to you. If you go to Settings, Privacy, Location Services, System Services, Significant Locations, you're supposed to see the places the system thinks are important, but on my device all I see are the hospitals I've just been in and not my home address, so it's clearly pretty useless and you might as well turn the protection off entirely if it's only going to inconvenience you. Which, as you say, you can't do without a valid fingerprint ...
In your case the good news is that you have a nuclear option: put the device into DFU mode, and wipe it clean from a computer. You must then manually remove the device from your account, and from Find My, using another device, so that it can be activated by the new recipient. I will leave this for followup discussion for now. Let us know if you run into trouble or have questions. Good luck. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/67F08883-34B7-4D2C-9DEF-7D4551D3AB2E%40me.com.
