How do i know if my iphone5 is factory unlocked or not?

how do i know if my iphone5 is factory unlocked or not?

And the answer is in all of that rhetoric above...the simple way to tell as a user is to take the sim out, put in a sim for another carrier and see if the iPhone activates.  If it does, it is not locked.  If it does not, it is locked.
If you bought this iPhone used, you will not be able to tell if it was unlocked when Apple sold it or if it was unlocked by a carrier after sale.
If the iPhone is locked, as Apple told you, then it was sold locked.  iPhones Apple sells unlocked do not get themselves locked during use or activation.  They stay unlocked.  So, if the iPhone is locked now it was not sold as unlocked by Apple.

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