The phone will turn on, but cannot connect to a cellular network if you block the IMEI. For iPhones you can lock them up completely if they are registered in your Apple ID via Activation Lock (AKA Find My).

Watch everythingapplepros video on cases for this year

Your carrier app should tell you. Also you can pick and choose which apps use cellular.

Settings > Cellular > Cellular Data Options > Low Data Mode

I actually just saw a comment above, someone shared Verizon lets you return within 14 days. I actually might do that, the store associates might hate me but I’m trying to learn to be less of a people pleaser anyways. Especially since I’m going to be on a payment for 36 months, and if I don’t stick with that phone for 36 months I won’t get my $800 trade in value I guess, which is the only reason I was really adamant about getting my 512.

They didn’t take your phone you dolt. They have to do specific things for Apple because they have a contract with them .

Honestly, I can’t. I did not change any setting regarding the Messages app, and my iPhone ‘isn’t that old’, because 2-3 months ago I did a complete factory reset, where I manually restored my phone to the state it was before that (to eliminate any ‘bad code’ my Icloud backup may contain). So I can assure you I did not change any setting regarding.

PS: Are you on the latest IOS it supports? I’m on IOS 15.7.1, and it promts the 15.7.2 update, but I have it.

Edit: I looket it up and it should be this setting in your Messages settings, but in theory it should be on for this, but as you see mine is off.

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This is interesting additional information, thank you for contributing this! I didn’t know that. They made it sound like the phone would be completely unable to turn on.

Hmm weird, I'm on 13 pro max with latest OS but I've never seen this when I get a random text.

Thank you for this! Verizon says the phone will be blocked and locked. Unfortunately, it seems like whoever stole it is likely to turn around and sell it to an unsuspecting person, which is sad. But, still not my issue. At least I have been refunded :)

could you tell me where can I find this setting?

Wow thanks for letting me know. I actually might consider this. I’m just trying to figure out if 256 GB is genuinely not enough for me, or if I’m just being upset and difficult because I didn’t get what I want.

I had a similar situation when I ordered my 12PM. I had to track it to the UPS shipping center and wait almost an hour for them (one very kind lady) to find it. Once she did the box was beat up and held together with scotch tape and didn't feel heavy enough for a phone to be inside it. She suggested that I open it in front of her so I did and it was empty. She called for the manager to come down and he was pissed off at her for wasting over an hour with one person. He told me that he would look into it and get back to me which I thought was a simple way for him to tell me to fuck off and let the lady get back to work.

I insisted/demanded on getting names, phone numbers and what he was going to do to find my phone. I called the Apple card people to put a stop on the payment which for some unknown reason(s) is next to impossible when you are paying yourself. Apple didn't want to put a stop on it because UPS said that it was delivered while they knew that it wasn't. UPS was a nightmare of we found it, no we didn't, yes we did, no we didn't. It took three months to resolve it and get the phone. I learned that there were a number of iPhones that disappeared (UPS refused to release actual numbers) from that location. I like the way Apple presents their products, but I think that they should do a better job of packing the ones that they ship

Yea, I got the 2 TB of storage on iCloud. On my 64 GB X max, it wouldn’t upload any of my stuff to iCloud until I upgraded, because if it can’t upload all of it, it won’t upload any. I should be fine with iCloud for photos. If anything, it motivates me to clean up my camera roll.

I mean technically anything is possible and people with different degrees get into these fields all the time it’s just much easier if you have an IT or CS degree

Nope. They make you come into a store, like a caveman. All in the name of "security".

I see. I was reading a post from 8 years ago about a stolen phone and I wonder if it was yours, lol. Sorry that happened to you, it’s a really disappointing situation

Could be carrier signal issues, buildings blocking signal, location svcs turned off for find my app, is underground, etc.

Simply cancel the base lineup, just keep SE, pro and pro max is sufficient.

He’s maybe turning it off… for odd reasons. Sorry.

That or it is genuinely not working or the settings aren’t correct

Everything is fixable. Just how much $$$ you want to throw into it.

Anyone know how to unlock an iPhone without paying off the contract? My brother is looking at websites like iphoneunlocker.com etc. and the reviews look bad. Any other ways to accomplish this?

Yeah that’s understandable, one of the pluses of a case is you can change up your color/style to whatever you want so I get that.

I miss the filtering methods from my Pixel as well. I have my iPhone set to filter unknown, but just yesterday that meant i missed a call and text from an old family friend who was in town for the day! I only saw the missed messages at the end of the day when i was clearing out my notification summary :(

The reason I dislike black cases, is that the darker cases in dim lighting gives an illusion of the bezels being bigger, because there’s little contrast that shows where the bezel ends and where the case starts.

This sounds so dumb but I can’t stand it for some reason haha.

I believe carriers will adapt for you to get the best of both worlds. Only a matter of time!