That wasn't my case at all. I've got an iPhone 8 and an iPhone 13 pro max. I use Verizon as my carrier. All I did when I got my 13 pro max, is to just pop the simcard from my iPhone 8 into my 13 pro max and I was off and running.
On 3/25/23, Kelly Pierce <[email protected]> wrote: > The iPhone 12 is a 5G device, the first 5G iPhone. Carriers, including > mine, will not allow a SIM card assigned to a 4G device to use the 5G > frequencies or the many additional frequencies of the 12. Carriers do > this because newer iPhones support many more frequencies than older > iPhones and carriers do not want the newer iPhones hogging the limited > frequencies and bandwidth only available to older iPhones. This is > called network management. I learned about all of this when I ordered > an iPhone 12 Mini and was sent a regular size iPhone 12. I was using > an iPhone 7 at the time. I tried to return the 12 but was told the > phone had to be activated first. This deactivated the SIM in my iPhone > 7 and the cell phone store put the SIM from my 12 into my 7, which was > a big mistake. Eventually, the cell phone store had to contact network > control at the carrier to learn why my 12 could not be accepted for a > return by the computer system. The returned phone had to have the > original SIM because it was coded as a 5G SIM and a new SIM had to be > installed in my 7 coded to the 4G network. So my 7 was deactivated > again and I went to the cell phone store to swap SIM’s. > > Kelly > > > On 3/25/23, Shai <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> It sounds to me like the phone may be locked to a different carrier. >> Has this phone been unlocked? Has it been used with this carrier in >> the past? >> >> >> On 3/23/23, Fazil M. <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I put a physical SIM in my iPhone12 and the phone doesn't ring nor does >>> it >>> make a call. 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