If I purchase a phone from someone on an AT&T plan, and they have not yet paid off the device, can I just pop out the AT&T sim and pop in my ST sim and it work?

I am from India. I purchased an iPhone Xs last year for my personal use from a local vendor. The phone worked perfectly for a year and suddenly stopped working in May. The network is locked and I cannot use it besides as a dummy phone. While searching for the reason and after the visit to the Apple

Hello   New user here. I am sure this question has been asked multiple times before, however I just wanted to verify with my own specific case. Im mainly here to inquire about the process of using an unlocked phone. If I had purchased an unlocked phone will I still be able to use my plan simply by t

Hi all, I've recently purchased 2 new 12 Minis, one for my son and the other for my daughter. Both are on my family's Unlimited plan. My son's phone was an old line, adding a new device. Transferred from an iPhone 6S. My daughter's was a new line, new device. My son has reported that his phone n

Not wanting to activate the embedded Apple SIM in my iPad Pro I went to an ATT store to get a carrier SIM. The employee there said I could just swap the SIM from my Air 2 to my Pro. I asked if that was allowed with a grandfathered unlimited plan and was told yes.  Can anyone here confirm that is cor

Question from an AT&T corporate store employee: Can you activate an E-sim with your American number when you are outside of the USA? My sister is in Turkey and currently has her American number on a physical sim card inside of an iPhone 11, but she just got an unlocked iphone 14 and wants to act

I have visited my local at&t store twice now trying to obtain a prepaid hotspot sim card. Each time I have been told to go online to obtain the prepaid hotspot sim card.  How do I obtain a prepaid hotspot sim card online?  Particularly the 20Gb $25 per month (paid as $300 in advance)

We are porting in a line onto our account. ATT is sending a sim card to install in the phone that we are porting in. It is a Samsung Galaxy 7S - will that phone lose everything that is on it when we change out the Sim cards? If so...how do we save the or transfer the what is currently on the phone t

Is this supposed to happen? I was just testing out a phone and wanted to try using mobile data on it, but when I tried to use mobile data it didn't work. Then when I transferred the sim back to its original phone I wasn't able to use data at all. Wifi was fine, it was just the mobile data that disap

Why is this so complicated?

I can move my sim card from one android device to another without any problems. However, if I move my sim card from an android device to an iphone, or from an iphone to an android device, voicemail and teathering will no longer work. I then have to contact AT&T and have them reprovision the imei

I recently got a Nokia 2760 flip (temporary phone), although I didn't notice it was "owned" by TracFone. Currently it says my AT&T prepaid sim card is invalid. If I got the phone unlocked, could I use AT&T with it?

I tried to activate the SIM device online but then it assigned a new number so I had to cancel it. I don't want to reactivate service because I'm concerned that it will only activate a lost phone. My husband won't let me use his phone because it recognizes his number and uses his account. I can't ca

My at&t prepaid account disconnected today, but I just added money this Sunday, with text message showing succesfully paid. Now I cannot log in the account nor use the phone number. and I cannot call customer service bec I don't have another phone. Please help. 

I currently have an iPhone 13 with a physical SIM. I will be traveling abroad and scanning a QR for an international eSIM during my travels.  When I return, I wish to transfer the AT&T physical SIM to the eSIM.  This is in my wheelhouse.  I understand this procedure. Is it pos

I just got a new iPhone 14 ahead of a trip to Italy. I want to use the Prepaid International add-on.  My old phone (with a sim) had the proper SIM number to use in Italy as does all the other phones on my plan, but my new phone has a different SIM.  Will I still be able to use my new phon

​I have a AT&T Motivate 2 phone that I bought in December and have had no issues with it until yesterday. It randomly popped up in the corner saying No SIM Card, so I restarted my phone and now it says Invalid SIM. I never take the phone out of its case, I don’t mess with the SIM so there’s no r

I am from the UK and 2 years ago bought a pre-paid Sim and loaded it with credit. Because of Covid I have only just been able to return to the US and put the Sim into an old unlocked iPhone I have. I have a “no service” message and when I go onto Network in the Settings, it says the Sim is not provi

Want to buy an iPhone 13 from Apple, then move everything over from the 6S. (And rejoin the 21st century.) How do I proceed? TIA!!

So, I have here a Iphone 7 plus. It is a US variant, as the technician told me here. I reside here in the Philippines and I cant unlock may iphone because it is AT&T locked and the previous owner has forgotten her icloud acc. So I was wondering if you could help me how can I open this phone and