You put it in a different iPhone, that phone can use your plan. You put a different SIM card in from a different carrier, you have a whole new phone number and carrier.
What a world! Is Unlocking My iPhone Legal? As long as your own your iPhone outright, you can do it yourself. There are also retailers and online services that will unlock your iPhone for a fee, but this is not generally recommended. Many carriers also have a waiting period you have to have paid your bill on time for six months to a year, generally. As of today, you can no longer activate an iPhone 4, 4s, 5, 5C, or 5s on their network.
The good news is that any iPhone 4s, 5, 5C, and 5s purchased from Verizon came unlocked right out of the box, so you can sell those models as unlocked instead of carrier-locked to the Verizon network. Sprint: Your iPhone needs to be paid off, free of any contractual obligations, and removed from your Sprint account before it can be activated by a new user.
Unlocked iPhones are worth more money than iPhones that are carrier-locked. We highly suggest checking out our guide to unlocking iPhones for details on how to unlock any iPhone. This is especially valuable if you're selling to an iPhone trade-in company.
Once you know all your data is backed up, safe, and ready to be moved to your new phone, you're safe to erase your iPhone. The easiest way to do this is to restore it to factory settings. This process deletes all data and settings and returns the phone to the state it was in when it first came out of the factory where it was assembled.
With the factory reset process completed, your iPhone should reboot and show you the setup screen. At this point, you shouldn't do anything else with your old iPhone.
If everything has gone right, your old iPhone only has the iOS and built-in apps on it and is ready for its new owner to set it up. The best way to confirm this is iCloud and Find My iPhone. When you've logged in, check to see if Find My iPhone shows your old phone. If it doesn't, you're all set to move to the next step.
When that's done, select your iPhone and remove it from your account. If you don't do this, your iPhone will still be locked to your Find My iPhone account and the new owner won't be able to use it — and no one likes an unhappy buyer. Speaking of making buyers happy, whoever buys your iPhone will like what they get a lot more if the phone is clean. Spending just a few minutes with cleaning products you already have around your house will make the phone you sell feel new to your buyer.
You can clean the screen and back of the phone with a little water and a soft cloth. When all of your data is deleted and Find My iPhone is no longer tracking your old iPhone, there's just one more step to prepare your iPhone for sale: making sure your new iPhone is working.
Your phone service should have transferred from your old phone to your new one when you bought and activated the new phone. You may already know it works: you may have gotten phone calls on the new phone. If not, ask someone to call you and make sure the call goes to your new phone.
If it does, all is well. If it doesn't, contact your phone company to make sure everything is correct about your service before getting rid of your old phone. This one only applies if you're selling your iPhone because you're switching to Android. If you're doing that, make sure you deregister your phone number from Apple's iMessage texting platform. If you don't, you could have problems getting all texts on your new Android device.
Remember, though: If you're sticking with iPhone, there's no need to do this. When you decide to send over your device, Gazelle covers for the shipping and then pays you when the package arrives. It also seems to offer more money in general. Even better, iCracked doesn't make you ship them your product. Instead, a representative will meet you at the location of your choice and, after some brief formalities iCracked says the transaction takes no more than 20 minutes , will hand you a MasterCard Debit Card pre-loaded with the agreed upon amount.
Yes, physical retail stores still exist, and offer one service their fancy web counterparts can't match: instant gratification. Each company will give you an online quote, and then you can either mail in your iPhone or do the whole transaction at the nearest retail outlet. Here's what prospective sellers need to know before they hit the market. Wipe Your Phone As various celebrities recently learned , your phone likely has a lot of data you'd prefer to keep private.
Time To Unlock You'll also want to unlock your iPhone before selling it. Your Selling Options Now that you're ready to hit the market, here are the major options.
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