摘要 |
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for managing a device. A server receives a device transfer request message, where the device transfer request message includes transferee information of the device and information about the device; a to-be-transferred instruction is sent to the device according to the device transfer request message, where the to-be-transferred instruction includes the transferee information of the device; the to-be-transferred instruction is used to instruct the device to set an activated state of the device to a to-be-activated state; and after the device is set to the to-be-activated state, the device can be activated only by using specified user information, where the specified user information includes transferor information, of the device and/or the transferee information of the device. In this way, a transferor of a device cannot maliciously clear data of a transferee of the device, and therefore, security for using the device by the transferee of the device is ensured. |