hey guys technically with the video for
you guys today we're going to show you
guys how to determine if a
iphone is unlocked or not but before we
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so let's get right into this video what
does unlock mean so essentially there's
two major types of unlock one is gsm
unlock and then the other one is
fully unlock what fully unlocked means
is that
the phone supports both gsm and cdma
carriers so if you don't know what that
means if you google search
uh what your carrier is it will come up
and most phones are usually
what's known as gsm unlock which a lot
of the carriers
are in the united states and
international as well
so those are the two major types of
unlock usually you will be
pretty much fine with gsm unlocked but
if you get a phone that's fully unlocked
that's the best usually
unlocked phones cost a little bit more
so let's show you guys how to check
if a phone is unlocked or not so there's
a couple ways to do this and we're going
to share these method
first one is actually through the
software on the new ios 14 if you
haven't updated
there's a neat feature in the setting
that tells you if a phone is unlocked or
not
simply go into settings once you're in
settings you're going to go to general
and once you're generated and go to
about page here and then an about page
you're going to go down
all the way to this section where it
says
carrier unlock as you can see this
section right here
where it says carrier lock you're going
to see that it says no
sim restriction that means the phone
is not locked to any carriers that's
what that means
the next thing you're going to want to
notice is that
the way to check if you don't have
updated your phone to ios
14 is actually using sim card so what
you're going to do is take a couple of
sim cards
if you don't have couple sim card maybe
if you feel a friend or family that
has sim card that has different carriers
and you
what you want to do is take those
carriers and put those sim card in there
so here we're going to go ahead and show
you guys how to put a sim card in this
iphone
12 pro and pop use our sim ejector pop
that sim card out
and then we're gonna go ahead and start
putting in the sim card first one i'm
gonna put in
is this cricut one so
we put this one in and then
pop it in there and then we should see
on the top of this phone is that the
carrier service
is listed here and as you can see we got
service here
and then we can put in the second sim
card we have here
as you can see the second carrier here
verizon it pops up and that is good to
go
the one thing about this method is that
you don't
the one thing that will not work to
check if a phone is unlocked is that
if the carrier that you are testing or
actually
under each of the each or the
are related to each other what that
means if verizon has
sub carriers meaning carries underneath
of it and you put the sim card in it'll
work
as well but the phone doesn't have to be
unlocked that's the only
caveat to it so you have to watch out
that these carriers
that you're using aren't related that
they aren't like a big carrier
to small carrier what will happen is if
a phone is not unlocked
we'll see this one over here that we
have which is not
unlocked we're gonna go into settings
here
and then if we go into settings here and
go to general and then in the about
section
you'll see this in the setting it says
sim lock so this phone is actually
locked and we can also show you guys
similarly with the sim card here that we
have so if we take a
sim card again and then this time we're
going to put a sim card in this one
so this phone is originally t-mobile
and first sub-carriers but are not
unlocked so if we take a
sim card from verizon here
and then put it on this one here
we should get a pop-up like this where
it says activation require
and then if we hit continue here
it says it takes a few minutes to
activate but it will not
activate and you will notice this sim
not supported message
something along those lines that means
this phone is not locked
so that proves that phone is in luck
another thing you can do is that if you
don't have sim card if you haven't
updated to
ios 14 is simply
take the ime number so we'll show you
guys how to do this
so if you have a phone here right what
you're going to do
is go ahead and take the ime number so
this is going to be
your physical sim ime number
you're going to take that copy that from
the settings
and then go to google
right and then in google what you're
going to do is search
up ime
unlock check or a checker
and then there's gonna be a bunch of
these websites where you can actually
check out your ime
and it's gonna say paste in your ime and
then you're gonna get more information
about it so that's one way to check
another way to check if you don't have
the sim card or if you haven't i
update it to ios 14 and the last way to
kind of check out of the
sim is unlocked is pretty much uh just
going through your carrier right
if you have let's say a t what you're
going to do is do a t
ime check
and then what you can do is actually go
on their website
and check to make sure the phone is
compatible and you want to do it for
t-mobile and some of the bigger carriers
or whatever carrier using
on most of their site they're going to
have ime check to make sure the phone is
compatible if you see
that ime is compatible on couple
carriers most likely the phone
is unlocked so those are a couple ways
to check if a phone is unlocked
pretty straightforward the first method
of course is
trying different sim card make sure that
the sim card aren't
the carriers unrelated where you have a
big company and you have some carriers
so that's a big you know that's the only
caveat to it
and then if you have if you haven't
upgraded to ios 14
probably you want to upgrade to ios 14
but ios 14 is only supported
on iphone 6s and above so if you have
iphone 6 or anything lower
you really can't see that in the
software so you're going to have to use
the sim card method
and then you know of course you can use
a checker ime checker unlock checker on
multiple sites out there there's a lot
of sites out there they keep on changing
so there's no one recommended one you're
just gonna have to google for it
and look to find it on a site and then
put the ime
it'll tell you if the phone is locked or
not
so hopefully those methods are helpful
if you guys are looking to check if a
phone is
locked or not if you have any other
methods or other way
leave a comment in the comment section
to let us know
your method of checking if our iphone is
unlocked or not
thanks for watching guys see you guys
next time