How to unlock your iPhone for use with another carrier!

You can unlock your iPhone for use with different carriers. Unlocking means that you can use your phone with a different carrier. An unlocked phone is sometimes called a SIM-Free or contract-free phone.

Unlock your iPhone

First, your carrier will need to process your unlock request. Then you'll back up, erase, and restore your iPhone to unlock it.

Start the process:

1. See if your carrier offers unlocking. Only your carrier can unlock your iPhone.
2. Contact your carrier and request an unlock. You might need to meet requirements to qualify for unlocking. After you submit the request to your carrier, it might take a few days to complete. Contact your carrier for the status of your unlock request.
3. After your carrier confirms that your iPhone unlock has been processed, go to the next section.

If you have a SIM card from a carrier other than your current carrier, follow these steps:

1. Remove your SIM card and insert the new SIM card.
2. Complete the setup process.

If you don't have another SIM card you can use, follow these steps to complete the process:

1. Back up your iPhone.
2. When you have a backup, erase your iPhone.
3. Restore your iPhone from the backup you just made.

Get help

Follow these steps if you have any issues or if you see this message in iTunes or on your device:

"The SIM card inserted in this iPhone does not appear to be supported. Only compatible SIM cards from a supported carrier may be used to activate iPhone. Please insert the SIM card that came with your iPhone or visit a supported carrier store."

1. Restore your iPhone to factory settings.
2. Contact your carrier to make sure that the unlock was applied in your carrier's system.
3. Restore your iPhone from a backup.

now that only works if the person who lost the iphone checked it off. 

if they didn't you could try restoring to factory settings. 

You don't have to jailbreak it or anything. 

Just download Itunes on your computer,

you need to have an apple cable 2.0, now plug it in. it might say that it can't open it because you need to unlock it first so what you need to do keep the iphone plugged in. 

hold the home and power button for atleast 10 seconds, once the iphone turns off release the power button and keep on holding the home button for atleast 10 seconds until you get to DFU mode. 

DFU mode is the little picture of an Itunes logo with a cable.

 your Itunes will recognize the Iphone and click on restore to factory settings and make sure to restore it to new. and that's it! 

here is also how to put it on dfu mode: 

1. Connect your iPod touch/iPhone to your computer with the USB cable. (make sure iPod/iPhone is on) 

2. Hold both power and home buttons at the same time and count to 10 (1 onethousand 2 onethousand etc. ) 

3. Let go of the Power button, continue to hold the home button until the iPod/iPhone connects back to iTunes. 

Be patient it can take some time. Sometimes while holding the home button it can take up to 15-20 seconds.

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