Unlocked iPhones sold in the US and brought to Europe

When purchasing an unlocked iPhone, is the phone number acquired with each SIM card or the phone itself?

The sim card.

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Are unlocked iphones sold in the apple store factory unlocked?

are unlocked iphones sold in the apple store factory unlocked?

Yeah just tested it, change the tmobile to iPhone tarrif and it's unlocked. So Peter was right it is unlocked if you buy from the Apple store. Plus I thought it would be unlocked just needed conformation, like I said the sales guy said it is unlocked to all networks.
Thanks everyone.

Hello all, I bought an iPhone 5 in the US and brought it back to Brasil. Now I'm trying to use Siri, but once I press the "home" button "voice control" appears and it only works for me to call my contacts. The manual guide tells me to go to Settings Gene

Hello all,
I bought an iPhone 5 in the US and brought it back to Brasil. Now I'm trying to use Siri, but once I press the "home" button "voice control" appears and it only works for me to call my contacts. The manual guide tells me to go to Settings>General>Siri. At the General menu "Siri" doesn't appear. What should I do to set Siri up if it doesn't appear at settings>general?
Thank you,
Melanie.

Go to Settings>General>Restrictions and make sure Siri is set to On.

If I buy an unlocked iphone 6 in the uk and have a uk sim card in it initially, will i be able to use my german sim card in it when i'm in germany and return back to my UK sim card on my return?

If I buy an unlocked iphone 6 in the uk and have a uk sim card in it initially, will i be able to use my german sim card in it when i'm in germany and return back to my UK sim card on my return?

Yes. But make sure you buy it at an Apple Store. Other stores selling SIM free iPhones will sell those that will usually lock to the carrier whose SIM is used to first activate the phone. Then you will be stuck.

Buying iPhone 5 in the US and bringing to Europe: success.

Hi,
In case any of you is wondering about iPhone 5 models and whether they work in Europe if bought in the US, I would like to share my successful experience:
You can buy a Verizon unlocked phone in an Apple Store in the US. Be prepared for the Apple Store person to be a little confused and ignore the "but that is not GSM" or "CDMA does not work in Europe".
Check and make sure that it is model A1429. Further check that it is a Verizon model [1]. This can be done by parsing one of the ends of the box with all the barcodes without having to open the plastic.
Not sure this makes a difference, but I replaced the stock Verizon SIM with my European SIM before activating in iTunes. <- Is this really needed?
The phone works with my European SIM in the US, UK, FR, and CH.
3G works without a hitch and the rates are much better than in the iPhone 3G.
Enjoy a >10% discount on a fully unlocked phone.
I have not yet tested LTE. From the table at http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/ the Verizon A1429 model supports a superset of the bands supported by the European A1429 model.
Feedback on point 3 and your experiences with LTE are welcome!
[1] Verizon 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB models in black are MD654LL/A, MD658LL/A, and MD664LL/A. The white 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB models are MD655LL/A, MD659LL/A, and MD665LL/A.

Hi!
I live in Norway and bought the Verizon iphone 5 (model a1429 written on back of the phone) and had to do specific things to get it working properly on LTE. (I am using the phone with a simcard from Norwegian carrier Telenor )
Step 1: Connect it to itunes via my laptop in order for the operator network settings to be updated (happened automatically).
After completing this task, I went to check Settings/General/Cellular on the iphone (For Norwegians: Innstillinger/Generelt/Mobilnett), and now (after updating operator network settings) I was able to enable LTE with the on/off button (prior to updating operator network settings I was not able to see any LTE button at all).
Nevertheless, my phone did not shift to LTE when I knew I was standing next to a LTE base station after completing STEP 1. It still only displayed 3G at the top of the screen.
Then I decided to do one more thing:
2. I restored ( For Norwegians: Gjenopprette iphone) the iphone while connected to itunes (after backing it up offcourse).
Finally, after this the iphone started to connect to LTE. I do not know why one has to RESTORE the iphone before it starts to connect to LTE, but it worked.
So for anyone who does what I did (bought an iphone 5 in the US for use in Europe primarily). Most likely you will have to buy the iphone 5 for Verizon (a1429 cdma version) without a plan. Since the verizon cdma version covers all frequencies that are used in Norway, it will also work on LTE in Norway with a Norwegian operator sim card. You just have to update network operator settings and RESTORE the iphone afterwards as explained above....
(http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/ as the table in this link shows, if you are buying an iphone 5 in the US and going to use it in Europe with a European sim card, there is only one possibility, which is to buy the a1429 cdma version.

Can you purchase an unlocked iPhone 5 in the USA and ship it to the UK, insert a UK Nano sim and would it work?

Can you purchase an unlocked iPhone5 from the USA, ship it to the UK, put a UK Nano-Sim card in the phone and would it work in the UK/Worlwide?
Or is there aproblem that I do not know about using the iPhone between countries?
thanks
Ian.Perry96

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
Although I agree pretty much with what you say, since there is no unlocked phone yet announced, we don't know which of the three models Apple may make available unlocked.

If you buy an iPhone 4 in the US and move to Europe....

...once you've figured out how to unlock it, do you have to keep unlocking your phone to add more software? A friend of mine says he won't buy a US phone to unlock but rather one locally because it's a hassle to keep unlocking every time he wants to upgrade his software. True?

True?
Yes. You would have to unlock it after each iOS update you apply.

Is there any difference between an unlocked Iphone sold in australia and the USA and if i bought one from the USA what would I have to do to use it.

Is there any difference between an unlocked Iphone sold in australia and the USA and if I bought one from the USA what would I have to do to use it.

An unlocked phone is an unlocked phone. It's sold without a SIM card. You have to get a SIM card from the carrier you want to use, with an account set up, insert the SIM and activate the phone in iTunes.
Unlocked phones sold by the USA online Apple store can only be shipped to a US address and paid for by a US credit card
The only difference between an officially unlocked iPhone sold in the US and Australia is the warranty. The warranty is valid only in the country of sale. If you buy the phone in the US and return to Australia, if it breaks you have to ship it to a US resident who will get it to Apple and return it to you. It can't be shipped direct in either direction.

Sold my Iphone 5. THe person who brought it has an Irish simcard and so it wont accept it. Does anyone know what I need to do to get it open to the Irish simcard?

I purchased and Iphone 5 directly from apple, sim free over 12 months ago now. I have been using the phone on Vodafone with no issues. I have now upgraded to the Iphone 6 and therefore sold on the Iphone to a friend of mine. He lives in Ireland and therefore has a Vodafone Ireland simcard. Given that the phone was brought sim free from Apple directly, we didn't foresee that this would be an issue. However, when he goes to activate the phone, this message appears;
The SIM card inserted in the iPhone does not appear to be supported.
The SIM card that you currently have installed in this iPhone is from a carrier that is not supported under the activation policy that is currently assigned by the activation server. This is not a hardware issue with the iPhone. Please insert another SIM card from a supported carrier or request that this iPhone be unlocked by your carrier. Please contact Apple for more information.
Does anyone know what I need to do? I have got onto Vodafone, and they have been useless!! Apple say the phone is out of the 12 month warranty and therefore want to charge £25 before they will even speak to me about it. I requested an NUC from Vodafone, however, they are saying they need a proof of purchase from Apple as I did not buy the phone from them. I do not have my receipt anymore as the purchase was over 12 months ago now.
Any advice much appreciated.
Thanks,
Phill

Now you have discovered that a sim free phone and an unlocked phone are NOT the same thing. Had you purchased an unlocked phone from Apple, then you would not have had problems and as it is, a sim free phone is not the same and sim free will lock to the first sim card that you insert into the phone, so effectively, you phone has been locked to Vodafone and this is why you now have problems.
If your phone is locked to Vodafone, then they are the only ones who can unlock the phone for you - Apple does not and cannot unlock phone - this is the province of the carriers only.
You had the contract with Vodafone when you used the phone and so you need to keep on at them to unlock the phone for you. If they still require proof of purchase and you cannot give them this and they will not unlock the phone for you, then this phone is useless to the friend that you sold it to - he will never be able to use it and basically, you are looking at giving him a refund for the phone for the amount that he paid you for it.
You need to keep on at Vodafone to unlock the phone for you or give your friend a refund for the phone as it will be useless to him and he will never be able to use the phone.
Hope that you now understand that a SIM Free phone and an Unlocked phone are NOT the same and I hope that when you purchased your iPhone 6, that you bought an unlocked phone?

I brought new unlocked iphone 4s one year ago and i put pay as u go sim in but now its locked

i brought new unlocked iphone 4s one year ago and i put pay as u go sim in but now its locked

Only the carrier it's locked to can authorize unlocking it. Contact Orange.

I bought my iPhone 4s in the Uk and then brought to Cyprus where I live. I used Siri to call my husband 2 days ago without problem but now when I try to use Siri it won't call any local Cypriot number but will call my Uk contacts. Help please

I bought my iPhone 4s in the Uk and then brought to Cyprus where I live. I used Siri to call my husband 2 days ago without problem but now when I try to use Siri it won't call any local Cypriot number but will call my Uk contacts. I can call the same numbers manually so it's not my network. Any help would be appreciated.

This sounds like an international issue? Although I can not see why? I brought my phone in Australia and operating it in Indonesia, I have the same issues.... Otherwise Siri works fine, even texting (SMS) to local numbers siri works well, but dialing local number it just wont work...! I will try using my Australian SIM card and see if that is the reason.. I tried changing the number in the contacts and took out the international prefix, I turned the international assist on and off still nothing.. How frustrating. I called apple, the technican had know idea and we to his supervisor, had to wait fro 40 miuntes and then I hung up..
PLEASE HELP..!

Hello, i bought a unlock iPhone 5 in 2012 december and i come back to my country and i pay money to use my phone in Turkey and few months later push button didn't work so i take my phone to apple and they give me the new one but they didn't give the box.

hello, i bought a unlock iPhone 5 in 2012 december and i come back to my country and i pay money to use my phone in Turkey and few months later my push button didn't work so i take my phone to apple in los angeles and they give me the new one but they didn't give the box. and 1 week ago i come back to my country again and i take a message from my line comany and they told that i must give money again to use my phone in Turkey until 30rt of january if i didnt pay i cannot use it anymore. but this is so stupid cause apple change my phone in guaranty covorage. what sould i do now

You need to pay your mobile network provider for the calls, SMS and data you need to use your phone. This is an ongoing charge, usually paid monthly.
This is nothing to do with Apple. Apple only provided the handset - not the mobile network you use it on.

HT201407 I bought my iphone 4 in the UK and I am trying to use a sim in the UAE and it doesn't work. It says that the sim is not valid, how can I get this unlocked?

I bought my iphone 4 in the UK and I am trying to use a sim in the UAE and it doesn't work. It says that the sim is not valid, how can I get this unlocked?

You are saying the phone is locked, but then you are saying there is no provider. The two situations cannot peacefully coexist. Contact Apple and they can tell you if the phone is locked and if locked to which provider the phone is locked. People on this board are not Apple employees and cannot get you that information.

I got my iphone 4 from the uk and my service provider was 3...i moved to india recently...my os version is 4.3.5 (8L1)...is it possible for me to unlock my phone??

i got my iphone 4 from the uk and my service provider was 3...i moved to india recently...my os version is 4.3.5 (8L1)...is it possible for me to unlock my phone??

The OS version makes no difference to a carrier unlock. 3 do unlock their handsets but you will need to contact them to check the terms they will do it on.

Hi! I`'m from Russia and i want to buy the new unlocked iPhone 4S in the U.S. in November, but i need to know, am i need this doc's?"What to Bring with You Your old mobile phone, if you're replacing it. Social Security number of the account holder. etc"

Hi! I'm from Russia and i want to buy the new unlocked iPhone 4S in the U.S. in November, but i need to know, am i need this doc's?
What to Bring with You
Your old mobile phone, if you’re replacing it.
Social Security number of the account holder.
Valid government-issued photo ID.
Carrier account password, if you have one.
Your Apple ID and password.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/
According to Apple's list (link above) you will probably want to pick up a Sprint or US Cellular model. HOWEVER, as I mentioned above I know that the Verizon iPhones come unlocked from the factory (assuming it will be the same for iPhone 6 and 6+). I DO NOT KNOW if the Sprint and US Cellular models come unlocked. But I am sure some quick internet research will lead you to the answer.
I think your goal would be to get a Sprint or US Cellular version. Also I believe a law was just recently passed that allows someone to have a phone unlocked by the carrier no questions asked. So even if the Sprint and US Cellular iPhones are locked you can have them unlocked.
Update:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-signs-bill-unlocking-cellphones/

Unlocked iPhones sold in the US and brought to Europe

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