hello guys in this video I'm gonna show
you how to lock your iPhone 5 from UK Oh
- so it's a very simple procedure and is
a factory unlock ok this means that you
will be able to jailbreak you are gonna
be able to on to restore or upgrade and
you will never lose your with your
unlock okay so after you look at your
gonna be able to use it with any GSM SIM
card worldwide ok so I'm gonna show you
how to do it step-by-step you will only
need your computer your iPhone and your
SIM card out to inside ok so just insert
it and plug your iPhone to your computer
ok so the first step is to open the
iPhone application you go to the keypad
as if you are making a call and you type
star pound zero six pound as you can see
that 15 digit IMEI number will appear in
the screen that's a very important
number and is unique for every phone ok
so write it down somewhere or I keep it
somewhere near because we're gonna need
it later to generate they do not process
okay so we're gonna put that up on the
side right now and we're gonna switch to
the computer and you go to the website
unlockriver.com in this website we're
gonna request the unlock service for
your iPhone ok so you scroll down and
you go here to the order in form where
you have to fill in information of your
iPhone and you look for the original
courier of your phone original country
in this case is United Kingdom and it's
an o2 iPhone ok then you select it phone
manufacturer this is an Apple iPhone and
then you select the exact model of your
phone as you can see down here it says
Apple iPhone 5 UK oh - ok and then it
asks for the IMEI number here is when
you insert the number we go to the
beginning of the video ok so just copy
it and paste it here make sure it is a
hundred percent correct because this is
very important okay so double check it
make sure everything is correct and you
click down here they unlock Now button
now you will have to pay with any credit
card or using PayPal or anything and
unfortunately this procedure is not free
but trust me it is worth it okay so
after you complete your payment the
waiting time varies from a couple of
hours to a couple of days and you will
receive an email when your iPhone is
ready to be unlocked okay so just like
this I'm gonna show you the email it
says congratulations your iPhone and
lock order has been processed
successfully as you can see it also
includes the status of your order and
it's activated and it includes
instructions on how to invoke your
iPhone so I'm gonna show you how to
unlock it right now using iTunes okay
we're gonna close the browser right now
and we're gonna open iTunes and if if
you have any important data on the
iPhone if you have pictures or contacts
or anything you may want to click backup
now okay so I'm gonna skip that for now
because I don't have any important
information on this iPhone and I'm gonna
click the restore iPhone okay this is
unnecessary process you click restore
iPhone and you click confirm right now
the iPhone will start restoring and this
is gonna take a while so I'm gonna stop
the video right now and I'm gonna come
back when the process is done okay so
your iPhone just stopped and just finish
updating or restoring so make sure you
insert the original SIM card above the
phone and we're gonna just wait right
now for the four items to recognize and
activate the phone right now so this is
gonna take also a few seconds until the
phone is recognized by iTunes so let's
just wait until it's fully on
and we should get a confirmation message
right now okay so there goes the
everyone just started again and right
now iTunes is trying to read a the phone
so let's just wait until it's just go
ahead and unplug it and plug it again
until it works they just wait until
these recognized by iTunes
okay so you're gonna click here connect
widens iTunes and you're gonna see a
message right now saying that the phone
is unlocked okay so as you can see here
it says congratulations your iPhone has
been unlocked okay so there you go guys
this is the way to unlock an iPhone with
factory unlock and this is a permanent
unlock you will be able to use it with
any GSM SIM card right now okay so it's
as simple as that guys if you have any
questions leave it in the comments below
and thank you for watching
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