Re: locked phone question

[Lyne]

If you want to use a Sim card in the lock iPhone, you can only use the carrier SIM card. If you want to unlock it, you have to contact the carrier who locked it Lyne Le 1 août 2025 à 10:08, R Van Lant <vanlant2...@msn.com> a écrit :  Hi Hoping someone can guide me...  My carrier is PureTalk, which runs on the AT&T network. I have the opportunity to buy an old iPhone 8 for my pre-teen son at a nicely low price. I called my carrier with the IMEI number and was told it’s a phone locked by AT&T, so the rep said it wouldn’t work.    Does this mean that putting a PureTalk sim card in it just doesn’t’ work?  Is there a way to get AT&T to unlock it since it’s a really old phone and I was not the original owner?  The person selling it to me is not savvy on this either…   -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/SN6PR04MB54569FF0A2467C3225FB3B54AF26A%40SN6PR04MB5456.namprd04.prod.outlook.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/EB9F0167-AB65-4A1C-B9C5-83A7C66470CD%40gmail.com.