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How To Tell If An iPhone Is Carrier-Locked

What does it mean if your iPhone is locked? If your iPhone is carrier-locked, it's only going to work with the cellular provider that locked it. However, if your iPhone isn't locked, you'll be able to ...
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Avoid buying locked iPhones with Apple’s Activation Lock status page

Apple introduced the Activation Lock feature in iOS 7 to help deter phone theft—if you’ve signed into iCloud and enabled Find My iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, you can’t erase your phone without entering ...